At this event, we will discuss CWPA's Best Book Award Winner for 2025, Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margins, edited by Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Sohui Lee, and Julie Prebel.
CWPA's Best Book Award Committee selected Disruptive Stories for its transparent structure, responsive writing, and the intentional inclusion of diverse voices. Reviewers consistently praised the book’s approach to storytelling as both a methodological and rhetorical strategy. By centering the lived experiences of writing center administrators (WCAs), the book sheds new light on the often-overlapping and underexamined dimensions of WPA labor. While the book’s primary focus is on writing centers, reviewers noted that the insights readily translate to broader WPA contexts, especially as WCAs frequently engage in curricular design, assessment, labor negotiations, and equity work—all core concerns of WPA scholarship.
Our EB Member, Daryl Lynn Dance, will be facilitating this discussion.