With over ve hundred sessions focusing on teaching practices, writing and literacy programs, language research, history, theory, information technologies, and professional and technical communication, the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication provides a forum for thinking, learning, networking, and presenting research on teaching and learning how to write. The National Council of Teachers of English is opening nominations for the Nell Ann Pickett Service Award, an award made each year to an outstanding teacher whose vision and voice have had a major effect on two-year college professionalism and whose teaching exemplies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership. Candidates will be screened according on the basis of a broad understanding of writing center scholarship and of rhetoric and composition studies, experience with writing center administration and board service with regional writing center associations or the International Writing Centers Association, ability to marshal institutional support to sponsor The Writing Center Journal and its editors, and a record of publication or editorial experience with peer-reviewed journals, which may include experience with managing the nancial and logistical aspects of journal production, serving as a manuscript reviewer or being involved in the production of an academic journal. To apply, candidates should present the selection committee with a written statement laying out the editorial vision of the candidate for the Writing Center Journal, a letter from an appropriate representative of the candidates home institution that outlines the kinds of support that will be provided to sponsor the Writing Center Journal, a current curriculum vitae, a sample of published writing, and a response to a sample manuscript to be provided once the other materials are on le or a sample editorial response that has been provided to a writer in the past.