Four people sitting facing an audience.
Panel presenting on issues of race and the writing center at the 2016 conference.

Since 1984, NCPTW has hosted a conference focused on peer writing tutoring and collaborative learning. From its inception, NCPTW has promoted peer writing tutors to develop presentations and present them to their peers–one of the first such academic conferences. NCPTW offers peer tutors the opportunity to contribute in professional and scholarly ways to the larger writing center community, and we’re dedicated to providing forums for tutors to share and present research at national and international conferences.

NCPTW professionals, play a vital role in mentoring peer tutors in their presentations, and also present at the conference, many of them with peer tutors from their writing centers. Topics at the conference range from collaborative approaches, responding to the challenges of creating and operating writing centers, developing innovative peer tutoring programs, and promoting the work of their peer tutors.

Check out the NCPTW Google Photos album for conferences from over the years.

This Year’s Conference

2025: Joint NCPTW/IWCA Conference in Cincinnati

Past Conferences

2020s

2010s

Three women presenting to many people seated around a large boardroom table.
Alyssa Cavazos, Norma Denae Dibrell, Leticia Gonzalez-Leal, and Sandra Musanti, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; “(Re)thinking Writing Tutoring Across Linguistic Borders: A Translingual-Community Engaged Framework for Peer Tutoring in Writing” at the 2018 conference on South Padre Island, Texas.

2000s

Man address large auditorium crowd.
Jon Olson welcomes 2007 conference attendees to Penn State.

1990s

  • 1999 State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University
  • 1998 Plattsburgh, NY: Plattsburgh State University of New York
  • 1997 Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky
  • 1996 Ada, OK: East Central University; Colorado Springs, CO: Colorado College
  • 1995 Muncie, IN: Ball State University; Ada, OK: East Central University
  • 1994 Birmingham, AL: University of Montevallo; Winter Park, FL: Rollins College
  • 1993 Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Valley State University
  • 1992 Indiana, PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • 1991 Burlington, VT: University of Vermont; Champlain College; Trinity College of Vermont; Colchester, VT: Saint Michael’s College
  • 1990 State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University

1980s

Typewritten letter
Letter from Tori Haring-Smith of Brown University proposing the creation of NCPTW.
Program with time and date listings
The first NCPTW program.