Outstanding opportunities exist both on and off campus.  

Visiting Writers Series

Through the Visiting Writers Series, award-winning novelists and poets such as Lee Smith, Fred Chappell, Charles Simic, Leslie Marmon Silko, Shelby Foote, Afaa Weaver, and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney read from their works and share personal reflections.  Students have the chance to meet and talk with writers at informal receptions after the readings.

Writer-in-Residence

Each spring, students have the unique opportunity to take a writing course with a visiting writer-in-residence.  Lenoir-Rhyne is proud to welcome Julie Fay, visiting writer for Spring 2009.

Cantos

Lenoir-Rhyne's student-run literary magazine invites submissions of poetry, prose, and photography each spring.  Students are also invited to join the staff of Cantos.

Campus-Wide Writing Opportunities

They can also polish their writing and editing skills by working on such publications as Cantos, the campus literary magazine; the Hacawa, the college yearbook; and the Lenoir-Rhynean, the campus newspaper.  Some English majors serve as peer consultants in the college Center for Communication and Learning.  

Faculty-Student Research Grants

A number of our majors have worked closely with a faculty member on a research project.  These projects give students the chance to develop a collegial relationship with your professors, to learn about advanced research methods, and to produce original, relevant research projects.  This experience can give you the edge on the job market and on applications to graduate or professional school.

Sigma Tau Delta

Students who excel in English studies may be invited by the faculty to join LR's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

Study Abroad

Many travel opportunities await the Lenoir-Rhyne English major. Particularly popular is the fall semester experience at Harlaxton, a one-hundred room Victorian manor house in the English Midlands, only ninety minutes by train from London.