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01 February 2023
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NAWE Conference 2023
Living as a Writer: Creative Writing in Education & Communities in 2023 and Beyond, Friday 10 to Saturday 11 March 2023, Online
**Get your Early Bird Ticket - Book by 7 February**
Don’t miss the chance to claim your early bird discount – in addition to your member rate – at the NAWE Conference 2023, sponsored by York Centre for Writing based at York St John University and Bloomsbury.
This year, we’re exploring ‘Living as a Writer’ with 45+ talks, workshops, panels and networking opportunities to boost and benefit your writing and teaching practice.
Keynotes from Patrice Lawrence MBE on ‘Living as a Writer’ and Blake Morrison and Maura Dooley on ‘What is the future of education?’
Book here to get your Early Bird Member Discount - from just £39! Deadline: 7 February.
Around the sector
Author talks at Kibworth Community Library in Leicestershire: Former NAWE Member Val Moore invites NAWE members to contact her on valeriemoore@btinternet.com if interested in giving an author talk at the library. No author fee (as a charity) but local bookshop will supply books to support event.
Catch the latest Oxford Platforms performances of plays by writers on the Oxford Playwriting Course at the Old Fire Station on Thursday March 16th at 7.30pm. Professional actors. Directed by John Retallack.
For more NAWE news and updates from around the writing world, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter
Ministry of Stories is Recruiting: 2x Writing Facilitators - Community Writing Labs
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - London
We're looking for two ambitious, creative and inspirational Writing Facilitators to bring writing power to the children and young people in our Community Writing Labs.
Digital Marketing Executive, Booker Prize Foundation
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - London
We are looking for a passionate and committed Digital Marketing Executive to develop and create best-in-class social media content and community management for the Booker Prizes’ social media channels
Chair of the Board, Nottingham City of Literature
Deadline: 04/07/2025 - East Midlands
We are looking for a new Chair of the Board of Trustees. The new Chair will be joining us at an exciting and important time as we celebrate 10 years as a UNESCO City of Literature and develop our next five-year strategy.
Public Programmes Manager, Exeter UNESCO City of Literature
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - South West England
Join us to shape bold, inclusive programmes that celebrate Exeter and Devon as a region of stories, culture, and creativity. This role is 4 days per week, primarily based in our Exeter office.
Marketing and Communications, Wigtown Festival Company
Deadline: 02/06/2025 - Scotland
Wigtown Festival Company is seeking to commission a Marketing and Communications professional to support our activity and delivery of the annual Wigtown Book Festival.
New Writing Sought, Open Book
Deadline: 20/06/2025 - UK
Open Book is seeking writing and supporting material from writers living and working in the UK for their Unbound programme. The fee paid to successful applicants is £220.
Subject Leader - Creative Writing (0.4 FTE), West Dean
Deadline: 01/06/2025 - South East England
West Dean College is seeking an outstanding Subject Leader in Creative Writing to lead and develop our validated Graduate Diploma, MA, and MFA Creative Writing programmes.
Communications Manager, Spread the Word
Deadline: 10/06/2025 - London
Our mission is to help London’s underrepresented writers get their work into the world, and to connect communities to words and stories. The Communications Manager is responsible for our all communications and channels, including social media, our website and newsletter.
Learning Facilitator - Leeds, The British Library
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - Yorkshire
Could you bring the British Library to life for pupils and teachers at schools in Leeds? We’re looking for someone to deliver collections-based, curriculum-focused workshops.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University College Cork
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - Republic of Ireland
The School of English and Digital Humanities at UCC wishes to appoint an experienced writer and academic to the role of Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Writing West Midlands: Spark Young Writers are Recruiting Assistant Writers
Deadline: 06/06/2025 - West Midlands
Volunteer with the Spark Young Writers team and be part of delivering 190 children’s writing workshops across the region. With a mix of in-person and online groups, you can support your local community, or join our writers on Zoom from your living room!
Programmes and Partnerships Manager (London), First Story
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - London
This post plays a key role in delivering First Story's Young Writers Programme in London. The successful candidate will ensure that the programme is delivered at a consistently high level, and support First Story to increase its reach and profile as a cultural organisation.
Raising Voices Project Co-ordinator, MK Literary Festival
Deadline: 18/05/2025 - South East England
MKLitFest, Milton Keynes` premier literary festival, is recruiting an experienced project co-ordinator to oversee our Raising Voices Community Programme.
Partnerships Officer, First Story
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - London
We are seeking a proactive and highly organised individual with excellent communication skills and experience of researching, establishing and maintaining corporate and philanthropic relationships for this exciting new post.
Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education), King's College London
Deadline: 08/05/2025 - London
The Department of English wishes to appoint a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing (Academic Education Pathway), 0.6 FTE, for a fixed-term period of 12 months, from 1 September 2025.
Writer in Residence, The University of Edinburgh
Deadline: 23/05/2025 - Scotland
Applications are invited for a part-time (0.4 FTE) post of Writer in Residence based in the department of English & Scottish Literature.
Creative Writing Co-Curricular Tutor, Inkhead
Deadline: 06/05/2025 - London
Inkhead is expanding! We are a group of writers who run creative writing workshops in schools and libraries across London. We are looking for more writers to join us. Your role will be encouraging children to express their creativity in after-school clubs in south London.
Author Hospitality Jobs at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Deadline: 19/05/2025 - Scotland
Edinburgh International Book Festival are seeking an Author Hospitality Manager and Author Hospitality Assistants.
Marketing and Development Coordinator, Forward Arts Foundation
Deadline: 12/05/2025 - UK
We are looking for a creative and highly organised individual to join Forward Arts Foundation's ambitious and dynamic team. You will coordinate marketing and comms for our organisation's fundraising and development work. Available as a permanent part-time contract or freelance contract.
Chief Executive Officer, Wigtown Festival Company
Deadline: 26/05/2025 - Scotland
Wigtown Festival Company is seeking a creative leader to guide one of Scotland’s most valued cultural organisations into its next chapter. Our new Chief Executive Officer will champion our mission, strengthen our impact and build on our hard-earned reputation.
Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
Open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. The winning chapbooks (16-24 pages) will be published by Southword Editions and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival.
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - International
Poems (max 40 lines) on any theme are invited from young poets aged 11-17 living anywhere in the world. This year's judges are Colette Bryce and Will Harris. Free to enter.
Novel Studio 2025: New Format & Final Deadline
Deadline: 30/05/2025 - International
City St George's University's prestigious Novel Studio programme is now accepting applications for 2025, with a final deadline of 30 May.
Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
Britain’s biggest flash fiction prize. £2,000 prize for stories on any topic up to 250 words. Open to writers worldwide.
Writing Magazine Grand Prize 2025
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
Win up to £1,000 in the Writing Magazine 2025 Grand Prize, our open competition for your short stories (max 2,000 words) in any form, on any topic.
Applications Open for the Fifth Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - UK
With mentors including Thomas Harding, Adam Kammerling, Kate Worsley and Olivia Sudjic, the celebrated Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme supports UK writers across fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2025
Deadline: 25/07/2025 - International
Leicester Writes Short Story prize is an international short story competition open to published and unpublished writers. Set up in 2017, the prize is managed by small independent publisher Dahlia Books.
Spread the Word Developing Tutors Programme 2025-26
Deadline: 23/06/2025 - London
Spread the Word's Developing Tutors Programme offers London-based writers a paid opportunity to teach their first creative writing workshop. Following a successful run of seven workshops in 2024-25, it will be opening applications in late May to run seven more workshops from September 2025 to February 2026.
National Theatre New Views Playwriting Programme: Apply Now
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - UK
New Views is the National Theatre’s year-long playwriting programme for students aged 14–19. Each participating school is paired with a professional playwright who works directly with students to help them develop and write their own original short plays.
The Novelry launches 'The Next Big Story' Writing Competition
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - International
The Novelry, the online fiction writing school, has launched a new writing contest, ‘The Next Big Story’. Designed to discover fresh literary talent, the competition will award one winner £75,000 along with a year of support from The Novelry team to develop their idea for a novel into a fully realised fiction book.
Presence: Call for submissions
Deadline: 31/05/2025 - UK
Presence, Britain's leading haiku journal, is seeking haiku (including senryu), tanka, haibun, other haiku-related poetry, and relevant essays for its July issue.
The Owl Returns - Applications Now Open for Its 4th Edition
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
The 4th International Screenwriting Development Workshop from the Athens Film Office, 'The Owl', returns with a refreshed format, inviting both Greek and international screenwriters to Athens on 4 - 7 October 2025.
The Passionfruit Review: Here and Now 2025: Call for submissions
Deadline: 07/06/2025 - International
The Passionfruit Review is, first and foremost, a place for love poetry. In this contest, it is calling for love poems that engage with the world around us, with the here and now.
The Page Turner Awards 2025
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
Now in their sixth year, the awards invite entries from unpublished and emerging writers in four categories: published books; completed scripts; completed, unpublished manuscripts; and uncompleted, unpublished manuscripts.
Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2025
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - International
The competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in the English language of 3,000 words or fewer. The story can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.
Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2025
Deadline: 31/05/2025 - International
The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre written in English.
The 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
The Oxford Poetry Prize is awarded annually for a single unpublished poem of no more than 50 lines and is open to poets writing in English around the world. This year’s guest judge is Rebecca Tamás.
TakeTen Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival 2025-26
Deadline: 01/06/2025 - UK
Aspiring and seasoned writers are invited to submit scripts around the theme of ‘Angels’ for Chesil Theatre's ninth biennial playwriting event.
Skear Zines Call Out 2025
Deadline: 13/06/2025 - UK
Skear Zines is looking for writing that straddles prose and poetry, fiction and memoir, narrative and non-consecutive sequences, short or longer pieces (anything from 50 – 1200 words), fragments or some other experimental form.
The 2025 Quay Words Young Writers' Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 18/05/2025 - International
If you’re aged between 10 and 18 years, send us your Flash Fiction, 250 or 500-word story on the theme of ‘Generation.’ There are two age categories – 10-14 years and 14-18 years – with cash prizes in each category of £200, £100 and £50, plus the chance to be published and to perform your work at Exeter Custom House. Open to young writers worldwide.
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The Poetry of Grief & Transformation with Romalyn Ante
Region: International
This two-session Zoom workshop invites participants to explore the profound themes of loss, healing, and transformation. Let’s journey from loss to light through the mindful practice of reading and writing poetry.
The Poetry Business: Workshops in June
Region: International
Coming up from The Poetry Business in June are workshops with Shash Trevett, Kathryn Simmonds, Liz Berry, Rachel Long, Robert Hamberger and many more.
2025 Manchester Writing School Summer Festival
Region: North West England
This four-day intensive course is designed to give participants a taste of life in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, one of the UK’s most successful literary centres, and home to one of the country’s largest postgraduate English and Creative Writing communities.
Writers Online: The Neurodivergent Writer's Toolkit with Amanda Marples
Region: International
Getting to the page and staying there can be tough for any writer, whether you are an academic, novelist, poet or freelancer. If you are neurodivergent (or think you might be), it can be even tougher, and there are good reasons for that.
Curtis Brown Creative: Join our new one-to-one Mentoring Programme
Region: International
Having provided mentoring for its alumni for some years, Curtis Brown Creative is now rolling out its new one-to-one mentoring programme that is open to all. Get expert, individual guidance as you write and edit your novel, memoir or non-fiction project. 3/6/9 Months | Zoom or In Person | £1,700.
Moniack Mhor Online Masterclass: Inhabiting your Fiction with Cynan Jones
Region: International
Use the words you already have on the page to unlock story and bring more authentic detail to your work.
Beyond Form: The Bird That Brings Hope: Building Interspecies Solidarity with Radha Patel
Region: International
The Bird That Brings Hope is a creative writing workshop following the story of the ‘Chitibuck’ - a blue feathered bird that lives on the Planet Luz. In the lore of our galaxy, its duty is to travel to other planets and collect the hopes of different species, and keep them in its stomach. When it dies, these hopes nourish the sacred ground beneath our feet. In 2025, the Chitibuck arrives in the UK.
Beyond Form: Writing with non-monogamy with Sam Amsler and Ruth Charnock
Region: International
How can writing undo monogamous ways of thinking, being, doing and relating?
Read Write Express – Writing for Wellbeing and self-awareness (June 2025)
Region: International
Read Write Express offers writing for wellbeing workshops for adults who wish to explore writing as a means of improving wellbeing, gaining confidence and moving forward with life.
Poems for Family & Loved ones with Jonathan Edwards
Region: International
Celebrating and exploring those we are close to is one of the key reasons people read poetry - and one of the reasons we write it.
Want to come to Ireland and write?
Region: Republic of Ireland
Not only but also enjoy live traditional Irish music and dance performances, visit an intriguing island with a guide, step inside a castle and be part of a writing workshop inside a 19th century thatched cottage on the beautiful ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ coastline.
Poetry School: Queer Objects: Sidling Up to the Subconscious with Kat Dixon
Region: International
Peek at queerness out the corner of your eye and learn to write into your subconscious.
Moniack in a Month – Building Fictional Worlds with Liz Hyder
Region: International
Join award-winning novelist Liz Hyder online for a month to explore the joyful art of harnessing your imagination to build fictional worlds.
The Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Festival 2025
Region: International
Join The Writers’ HQ in June and go broad and deep into craft and practice with a whole month of workshops from a specially curated gang of super awesome writers. The Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Festival will provide support and motivation throughout the process of starting, middling and finishing your novel.
A Day of Welcome, Friday 13 June 2025
Region: UK
A Day of Welcome is an annual day of solidarity and learning in schools that aims to build a culture of welcome and understanding for people seeking sanctuary. This year the team is working with the UK Cities of Literature to help spread the word in recognition of the close ties between reading and empathy.
Curtis Brown Creative: Edit & Pitch – Advanced
Region: International
Join a group of 15 writers working at a high level, get expert guidance as you redraft your novel and learn what literary agents are looking for directly from the source.
Disruption! Queering Form
Region: International
This workshop will explore disruptive and experimental texts that queer poetic form, and which protest, subvert or reject societal norms.
Decomposed: writing with narrative shape and embodied practice
Region: International
What does it mean to write in circles? To compose a story of fractals or roots? To spin a yarn that truly spirals? In this course you will be asked to stray from one of the most well-trodden paths through narrative, the arc, and instead, be invited to think about how you can incorporate other shapes into your narratives, informed by your individual embodied experience.
Cultureword 50th Anniversary Party
Region: North West England
Commonword Cultureword has been supporting emerging poets, novelists and spoken word artists since 1975. Turning 50 seems like the perfect occasion to host a party!
Ty Newydd : Memoir Writing and Wild Swimming: Diving into the deep with Amy Liptrot & Noreen Masud, Guest Reader: M. John Harrison
Region: South West England
Join us for a unique course combining memoir and wild swimming where you’ll be invited to dive deep into your writing and some of the stunning open waters of Llyn and Eifionydd.
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