Writing majors and minors are very active as a community, participating in a number of department-supported organizations:

• Organization for Professional Writing (Advisor: Laurence José)
• Student Reading Series (Advisor: Beth Peterson)
• Writers Club (puts out Running Out of Ink) (Advisor: Patricia Clark)
• InWriting (publishes InWriting magazine) (Advisor: Todd Kaneko)
• fishladder (Advisor: Amorak Huey)