International Writing Centers Association (including information about IWCA affiliates)
(For reference, as they are the largest quantitative studies to date: US-based National Census of Writing and Writing Centers Research Project)
National and regional writing center organizations
Quantitative scholarship examining writing center growth outside the US
Some qualitative and historical studies on global writing center growth
National and regional writing center organizations
Canadian Writing Centres Association / association canadienne des centres de rédaction
European Writing Centers Association
Middle East / North Africa Writing Centers Alliance
National Writing Centres Consortium (Russian Federation)
La Red Latinoamericana de Centros y Programas de Escritura
Writing Centers Association of Japan
Quantitative scholarship examining the expansion of writing centers outside the United States
Bromley, Pamela (2017). Locating Canadian writing centres: An empirical investigation. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 27, 24-41
Bromley, Pamela (2023). Locating the international writing center community. JoSch: Journal für Schreibwissenschaft, 25, 10-20
Hodges, Amy; Inas Y. Mahfouz, Inas Y., Mari, Sahar, Khalil, Maimoonah K., Habre, Paula A. & Daouk, Hala. (2022, 18 November). Connecting MENA writing centers through data. Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders. [This is the description of the project; there does not seem to be data published yet.]
Hoffmann, Nora (2019). Schreibzentrumsforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Erhebungen zum aktuellen Stand und Desiderate [Writing center research in German-speaking countries: Survey of current status and future needs]. In Andreas Hirsch-Weber, Cristina Loesch and Stefan Scherer (Eds.), Forschung für die Schreibdidaktik: Voraussetzung oder institutioneller Irrweg? (pp. 14-30), Beltz Juventa. (in German)
Hoffmann, N., & Freise, F. (2024). Rollen und Einflussmöglichkeiten von Schreibzentren an deutschen Hochschulen: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Umfrage zu Rahmenbedingungen und Aktivitäten von Schreibzentren. [Roles of and possible influences of writing centers at German universities. Results of a Germany-wide survey on the framework conditions and activities of writing centers]. HERMES – Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 64, 253–270. (in German)
Molina Natera, Violeta & López Gil, Karen Shirley. (2020). Estado de la cuestión de los centros y programas de escritura de Latinoamérica [State of the art of writing centers and programs in Latin America]. Revista Columbiana de Educación, 78, 97-119. (in Spanish)
Some detailed qualitative and historical studies of global writing center development
Archer, Arlene & Richards, Rose (Eds.). (2011). Changing spaces: Writing centres and access to higher education. Sun Press.
Barnawi, Osman Z. (Ed.). (2018). Writing centers in the higher education landscape of the Arabian Gulf. Springer.
Bromley, Pam; Girgensohn, Katrin, Northway, Kara; & Schonberg, Eliana. (2021). Introduction to transatlantic writing center resources [including a timeline of writing center growth in the transatlantic region broadly understood]. Writing Center Journal 38(3), 23-42.
Chang, Tzu-Shan. (2013) The idea of a writing center in Asian countries: A preliminary search of models in Taiwan. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 10(2).
Giltrow, Janet. (2016). Writing at the centre: A sketch of the Canadian history. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 26, 11-24.
Glushko, Tatiana. (2021). Developing writing centers in Russia: A balancing act. In L. Ashley Squires (Ed.), Emerging Writing Research in the Russian Federation (pp. 127-151). WAC Clearinghouse.
Olson, Martha, Sutraphorn Tantiniranat, Molly McHarg, & Weraphon Carmesak. (2021, Spring). Design and implementation of the first peer-staffed writing center in Thailand. Composition Forum, 46: 12-18.
Macgilchrist, Felicitas & Girgensohn, Katrin (2011). Humboldt Meets Bologna: Developments and debates in institutional writing support in Germany. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 23(1).
Meneses, Gilbert Ayala (2024, 24 April). The first writing centers in Mexico/Los primeros centros de escritura en México. Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders.
Song, Lingshan (2018, 21 February). Joining the momentum of writing center establishment in China. Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders.
Squires, Laura. (2018). Writing centers and academic professionalization in the Russian Federation. In Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar (Ed.), Western curricula in international contexts (pp. 1-22). Lexington Books.
Tan, Bee-Hoon (2011). Innovating writing centers and online writing labs outside North America. The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly, 13(2), 391-418.
I-Tremblay, Erika. (2017). The development of writing centers in Japanese higher education. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ubaldo, Emil F. (2021). The protean identity of English-medium writing centers in the Asia-Pacific region: A literature review. MEXTESOL Journal, 45(4).