The Rose O’Neill Literary House stands at the center of Washington College’s thriving literary community. Some of the nation’s most distinguished writers, editors, and thinkers have given readings and broken bread with WC students on the Literary House’s wraparound porch or within its poster-clad Victorian walls.

The Literary House Printshop, redolent of iron and ink, is where students learn to set type for their texts, print them on sheets of rag-rich paper they’ve fed through iconic Heidelberg and Vandercook presses, and bind them into books.

The Rose O’Neill Literary House is a physical space where students, regardless of major, can find community. And it is a programmatic space committed to promoting the articulated word and its transformative power.