English/Creative Writing

As part of Virginia Intermont’s literary community, you will engage in stimulating lectures, intellectual debates, and exercises in critical and creative writing. Our rigorous and rewarding program emphasizes collaborative learning, with small class sizes of eight to 12 students that allow you to work closely with peers and professors to navigate reading and writing arts. This intimacy fosters authentic and organic exchanges of critical and creative ideas.

You can lend your voice to campus culture, participating in the bi-monthly Poetry Club and the campus-wide literature-and-arts review. Faculty and students join to coordinate events, including on-campus creative writing workshops with such acclaimed poets, novelists, and playwrights as John Hoppenthaler, Casey Clabough, and Silas House. Off-campus, literature and creative writing students have paired with photography majors to review the music and culture of the Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, which attracts a 30,000 plus crowd annually.

The four-year, 124-hour B.A. track also offers core courses in British and American literature, Shakespeare, and Theory of Literature and such electives as Modernism, Multicultural Literature, and Issues in Women’s Writing. Concentrations in literature and creative writing, literature and language, and literature and language with licensure prepare students for futures in professional writing and editing, advanced textual studies, and teaching. An English minor is also available.

For further information, please see our courses and major requirements (pdf). For an in-depth look, please refer to our catalog (pdf) or contact a faculty member.