The association's eighty-sixth annual meeting will be held 11–13 November 1988, in Portland, Oregon. The host institution is Portland State University. Most of the meeting's events will take place at the Red Lion Inn, Portland Center. A local committee headed by Georgia Ronan Crampton and Claudine Fisher (Portland State Univ.) is in charge of preparations.

The third annual MMLA Book Award will be presented in November 1988. The competition is open only to members of the association. Each year, the University Press of Kentucky will publish the best original work of literary criticism or history submitted to the competition and will award a prize of $1,000 to the author. The press also reserves the right to publish any other submitted manuscripts that the Committee of Judges recommends for publication

The 1989 NEMLA convention will be held 31 March-2 April at the Radisson Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, with the University of Delaware as the host institution. The local committee is chaired by Joan L. Brown and Joan Del Fattore (Univ. of Delaware). Information about the convention may be obtained from NEMLA President F. William Forbes, Dept. of Spanish and Classics, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham 03824.

The 1988 convention will be held 20-22 October at the Las Cruces Hilton. New Mexico State University will host the meeting as part of its centennial celebration. A Mexican banquet, a wine reception hosted by the university and the New Mexico Vine and Wine Society, a program on western and southwestern literature, a program on class, race, and gender in Chicana literature, as well as excursions to Juarez, Mexico, and to Old Mesilla will help participants celebrate the flavor of the region.