Call for Papers 2026
- ChLA Global Committee
- Aug 14
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 26
"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:
Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
Global Committee’s Guaranteed Panel
Deadline: September 30, 2025
11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Children's Literature Association Conference
May 28-30, 2026
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
ChLA’s Global Committee seeks paper proposals that explore what it means to be a neighbor—helpful, harmful or otherwise—or to create, maintain, inhabit, or leave a neighborhood, particularly in a global context. Preference will be given to analyses from a global perspective and to papers that examine texts originally written in languages other than English and/or created by authors and illustrators from communities beyond Anglo-American children’s and YA publishing traditions, including global indigenous communities. Read the full CFP here.
We encourage scholars and students who are based outside of North America to submit proposals. Please submit a 300-word proposal and a 200-word biographical statement with the subject line, “ChLA 2026 Global Panel Abstract” to Deirdre McMahon, dhm33@drexel.edu, by September 30, 2025, 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
One abstract will receive the Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Global Scholarship Grant towards conference expenses, and two other abstracts will receive travel grants to help to offset expenses related to the conference. Authors of proposals selected for the panel will be notified in advance of the submission deadline. The Global Committee encourages those scholars who are not selected for the “Borders, Bridges, Belonging: Neighborhoods” panel to submit an abstract through the general Call for Proposals so that international children’s literature will be featured in other panels at the conference. The deadline for general submission to the ChLA 2026 Annual Conference is October 15, 2025.
For more information about the 2026 Global Committee, please visit our page and Global Committee Blog.
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