Welcome to Issue 18.1-18.2 of Xchanges—a double-issue featuring some exciting new features!

First up, I do want to position this Editor’s Letter in its specific temporal moment: I am writing this after having returned from the CCCCs conference in Spokane, where I had the pleasure of meeting with many other folks interested in promoting undergraduate-student and graduate-student research and publication. Xchanges has long been lucky to exist alongside other journals that showcase the scholarship (written, multi-modal, and beyond!) of undergraduate and graduate students, in free, open-access formats. I want to take a moment to thank those other journals (TheJump+, Kairos, Young Scholars in Writing, Queen City Writers, and more!) and to celebrate the dedication of the Undergraduate Research Standing Group and the Research Network Forum for showcasing journals like Xchanges that champion the continuing goal of creating and maintaining spaces for emerging scholarly voices in Writing Studies and its subfields.  

Xchanges is now in its 23^rd year and we have an amazing editorial team leading us, including our Co-Managing Editors Beau Pihlaja (Texas Tech), Jenn Burke-Reifman (San Diego State University), and Manny Piña (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi) and our Technical Editing team, including Eric Mason (Nova Southeastern University), Chanakya Das (Lead Technical Writer, California), and Nicole O’Connell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Our review board now boasts over forty faculty members from around the U.S., from a wide variety of institution-types, including liberal arts colleges, state flagship universities, regional campuses, and community colleges. We are so honored to have such a dedicated and committed-to-mentorship review board! . . . [READ MORE]