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New chapters, new voices: Literature, Language, and the art of connection
New chapters, new voices: Literature, Language, and the art of connection
Global Voices in Literature returns for a new edition. This year, we want to open the conversation even wider because literature rarely lives alone.
We're calling on teachers who bring literature into the EFL classroom, and who face, every day, the question of how to make a text matter to their students. We're calling on readers who may not teach at all, but who find real pleasure in reading in English — because teaching literature always begins with loving it. And we're calling on those who build bridges between the written word and other forms of artistic expression: music, film, visual art, or oral storytelling that give a text new life, in the classroom or beyond.
These three voices — the one who teaches, the one who reads, the one who connects literature with art — are often the same person, at different moments. New Chapters, New Voices is an invitation to bring that multiplicity into one shared space: new chapters in a conversation that's already a year old, and new voices to keep expanding it.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS — GLOBAL VOICES IN LITERATURE 2026
CALL FOR SPEAKERS — GLOBAL VOICES IN LITERATURE 2026
New Chapters, New Voices: Literature, Language, and the Art of Connection
New Chapters, New Voices: Literature, Language, and the Art of Connection
LitSIG (IATEFL) invites you to submit a proposal for our 2026 one-day virtual conference.
Following the success of Global Voices in Literature 2025 "Stories Without Borders," this year's edition widens the invitation. We are looking for voices from three different and often overlapping places: the classroom, the reading chair, and the space where literature meets other art forms.
We welcome proposals in any of the following three strands:
📖 Teaching Literature
Approaches, strategies, and classroom experiences for bringing literature into English language teaching at any level, with any age group. What has worked? What has surprised you? What do your students teach you about a text?
☕ Reading for Pleasure
Talks that celebrate reading in English simply for the joy of it. Reading circles, personal reading journeys, recommendations, reflections on what keeps us and our students turning pages.
🎨 Literature & the Arts
Sessions exploring the crossroads between literature and other artistic expressions: music, film, visual art, theatre, or oral storytelling. How does literature come alive when it meets another art form?
Session formats: 30-minute talks · 45-minute workshops · lightning talks (10 min)
Who can submit: teachers, teacher trainers, researchers, students, and independent readers — anyone with a story to share about literature, language, or the arts.
Submission deadline: 12/09
Notification of acceptance: 14/09
Conference date: 19/09, virtual format
We look forward to reading your proposals and to opening this year's new chapters together.
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