Teaching writing has always existed in the intersection of language and activism. Writing instructors encourage their students to attend to style, voice, and other aesthetic elements of their text. Writing instructors also encourage their students to think of their work as socially situated and able to effect change in the “real world” outside of the classroom. The Teaching Writing in College session welcomes all submissions but is particularly interested in those that consider writing instruction in relation to language, identity, power and relationships in and outside the writing classroom. Possible topics include but are not limited to: 1) Presentations that draw on student texts or amplify student voices; 2) Pedagogic using a civic engagement/service-learning approach; 3) Pedagogic foregrounding the role of social justice in writing; 4) Writing projects and/or assignments which address creative uses of language, voice and identity; 5) Projects examining the creativity and/or voices of student writing; 6) Examinations of language difference; 7) Activist/alternative approaches to writing assessment, etc. The session encourages presentations that draw on student work as a primary text as well as interactive presentations that engage audience members. Please send all abstracts to Lisa Diehl at lisa.diehl@ung.edu by July 1st.