Housed in a stately red brick Victorian home, Trinity’s Department of English boasts a distinguished, widely published faculty and a lively community of student scholars and writers.  Majors in English are invited to concentrate in literature or creative writing, and about half choose the latter.  The creative writing curriculum begins by giving writers broad exposure to a variety of genres.  In upper-division courses, students specialize in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and playwriting

Trinity’s  A.K. Smith Visiting Writers Series annually hosts between 8 and 10 readings by nationally and internationally acclaimed poets and prose writers.   Student-edited literary and art publications, the Literature Club, and open mikes organized at on- and off-campus venues provide opportunities for hearing, discussing, and publishing creative work.   A number of endowed prizes are awarded each year for poems, stories, and essays written by Trinity students; prize winners read from their work at a public, celebratory event in the spring.