| Year | Theme | Organizers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | ``Caribbean Women Writers`` | Selwyn Cudjoe | Wellesley College - USA |
| 1990 | ``The Woman The Writer and Caribbean Society`` | Helen Pyne-Timothy | University of the West Indies - St. Augustine - Trinidad and Tobago |
| 1992 | ``The Caribbean and Female Vision in the 21st Century`` | Joceline Clemencia | University of the Netherlands Antilles - Curacao |
| 1994 | The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars was founded (May 21) | Helen Pyne Timothy (ACWWS' founder and inaugural President), Carole Boyce-Davies, Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Tanya Saunders (and later joined by Vicki Silvera) | Pittsburgh PA - USA |
| 1995 | ``Multiple identities: contradictions connections coalitions`` | Selwyn Cudjoe, Michèle Lemettais, Tim Peltason, Joy Renjilian-Burgy | Wellesley College - USA |
| 1996 | ``Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Women`` | Adele S. Newson | Florida International University - USA |
| 1998 | ``The Construction of Caribbeanness in the Works of Caribbean Women Writers`` | Helen Pyne Timothy | The University of the West Indies - Grenada |
| 2000 | ``Binding Ties: Transnationalism – The Caribbean and its Diaspora`` | Opal Palmer Adisa, Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni, and Nidia Tirú Torres | University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez - Puerto Rico |
| 2002 | ``Unveiling the Caribbean: From Diversity to Coherence`` | Hanetha Vete-Congolo | GRELCA and UAG - Martinique |
| 2004 | ``Liberatory Poetics in Caribbean Writing: Gender and Nation Re-configurations`` | Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo | National Library of the Dominican Republic |
| 2006 | ``Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating`` | Carole Boyce-Davies | Florida International University - USA |
| 2008 | ``Traditions and Legacies Revisions and Interventions: Caribbean Women Writing in the 21st Century`` | Antonia MacDonald-Smythe | St. George's University - Grenada |
| 2010 | ``Caribbean Dislocations/Caribbean Diasporas`` | Angeletta Gourdine | Louisiana State University -USA |
| 2012 | ``The Caribbean the Land and the People: Women's Efforts Women's Lives`` | Ismene Krishnadath | Teachers Training Institute -Suriname |
| 2018 | ``The Unexpected Caribbean Symposium`` | Cécile Accilien and Giselle Anatol | University of Kansas -USA |
| 2021 | ``Writing about Caribbean Gender and Social Justice Virtual Conference`` | Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna Aza Weir-Soley | Virtual |
| 2023 | ``Caribbean Feminisms: Genealogies and Geographies of Resistance`` | Carol Bailey and Guillermo A. Navarro Alvarado | University of Costa Rica (San José and Limón campuses) |
| 2025 | Global Feminist Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Scholarship, Advocacy, Activism, Creativity, and Pedagogy | Simone A. James Alexander and Stephanie Fullerton-Cooper / Erica Gordon | University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) |
