Black Mountain Institute

About Black Mountain Institute at UNLV champions writers and storytellers through programs, fellowships and community engagement. We make space for meaningful collaborations and conversations; we understand service as vital. We ask questions about access, the environment, and labor. We find our home in Las Vegas–a place of hospitality in the middle of a desert. Between the manufactured and natural, urban and wide expanse, built and rebuilt, bounty and scarcity, we live within narratives of destruction and preservation. From the brightest spot on the planet, Black Mountain Institute amplifies writing and artistic expression to connect us to each other in the Las Vegas Valley, the Southwest, and beyond. Organizational Overview The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute has a full-time staff of six that works year-round from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Interns, graduate assistants, PhD fellows, and visiting fellows are also a crucial part of “Team BMI.” Based within the university’s College of Liberal Arts, BMI serves on-campus audiences as well as the broader public through its programs. Thresholds is a podcast created by Jordan Kisner and hosted by LitHub in partnership with Black Mountain Institute. The series consists of interviews with writers and artists about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points from which their best work is made—and the moments they stepped across, like a threshold, into someplace new. BMI paid internships are available to UNLV undergraduates through the COLA Internship Program. BMI Graduate Assistantships are available to UNLV students pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing or Ph.D. in English with Creative Dissertation. These placements are funded by UNLV’s English dept. Black Mountain Institute also funds research to recognize faculty in UNLV’s College of Liberal Arts, the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, and the College of Fine Arts. Faculty Research Award applications are accepted annually from from mid-August through late September. To learn more or apply please visit Submittable.