2026 Zone 3 Writers' Festival: Call for Proposals
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MEMORY is the theme of this year’s festival. We invite proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and creative readings that explore memory as personal experience, collective history, cultural archive, and political force.
This year, festival attendees have the opportunity to attend craft talks and readings led by professional writers, participate in generative writing workshops, attend informational panels on writing and the writing industry, and meet with APSU creative writing faculty.
Suggested Topics:
- Craft Talks
- Conversations on Personal & Collective Histories
- Workshops on Genre, Style, & Form
- Insight to the Writing/Publishing Industry/Digital Publishing
- Writing in and out of Academia
- Self/Indie Publishing and Marketing
- Writing Pedagogy
- Literature & Memory
- Multimodal Essays
- Tabletop Gaming
- And more!
Submission Guidelines:
Please include a 300-word proposal—indicating either virtual or in-person—and a 150-word proposer bio with a headshot.
Selected proposals will be announced on February 20, 2026.
Entries that do not follow the above guidelines will not be considered. If you have any questions about the festival, please reach out to Joey Grisham (she/her) at grishamj@apsu.edu.