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 (publishes Running Out of Ink) (Advisor: Patricia Clark)
• InWriting (Advisor: Zsuzsanna Palmer)
• fishladder (Advisor: Amorak Huey)
• In the Margins (Advisor: Todd Kaneko)