We are thrilled to have exceptional papers and presentations at this year's conference! Please follow us on social media (@writinglit) and on the AERA conference platform for ongoing updates about our featured sessions and sessions led by our SIG members. The following areas will be explored in connection with the conference theme:

• Critical media literacies
• Youth literacies, voice, and activism
• Global and international literacies research
• Multiplayer online gaming, video games, and literacy learning
• Hip Hop and Spoken Word 
• Content-area and disciplinary literacies
• Sensory literacies and embodiment
• Rural and urban literacies
• Religious, faith-based, or spiritual literacies
• Media and materials of literacy practices - old and new
• Ecological literacies
• Spatiality, networks or rhizomes in literacy practices
• Digital composition
• Pedagogies for teaching grammar for different social purposes
• Multilingual literacies across contexts
• Social media and literacy practices
• Intersectionality of race, gender, and other identities in literacy practices 
• Social and economic marginalization and literacy practice
• Early childhood, primary, adolescent, and adult literacy practices
• Literacy practices in homes and communities
• Play, toys and early literacies
• Literacy pedagogy, curriculum and assessment
• Power, policy and literacy
• Pre-service teachers, teachers and literacy pedagogies
• Higher education, digital technologies and discourses
• Writing development (early childhood, childhood, adolescent, adult)
• Methodologies for studying multi-sited literacies phenomena
• Translanguaging