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NAWE Members Meet-Up (September 2023) - Booking open
Wednesday 13 September 2023, 18:00-19:00 BST, Online
Booking is open for the second in our series of online NAWE Members Meet-Ups, following our very successful July Meet-Up which saw NAWE members joining us from around the UK.
Join fellow NAWE members online on Wednesday 13th September at 18:00 to share experiences of writing in education in all its forms and settings. It’s a great chance to meet informally with other members and the Trustees. Hosted by Jonathan Davidson, Acting Co-Chair (with Derek Neale) & Trustee, NAWE.
Free but booking essential. Please register via Eventbrite
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trustees, The Writers’ Block
Deadline: 01/05/2025 - South West England
As we embark on the next step of our exciting journey, we are looking for new trustees to support our development and who want to offer their skills, expertise and experience so that more people across Cornwall can discover their voice, share their stories & unlock their inner writer.
Poetic Frequencies - Exploring the Resonance of Videopoetry Residency
Deadline: 18/05/2025 - Europe
The Hertzlab at ZKM in Karlsruhe (UNESCO City of Media Arts) in collaboration with Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature invites poets from UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide to apply for its new residency program.
Lecturer in Creative Writing, York St John University
Deadline: 24/04/2025 - Yorkshire
We are seeking an enthusiastic Lecturer to contribute to our vibrant undergraduate and developing postgraduate offers in Creative Writing.
Jobs at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Deadline: 27/04/2025 - Scotland
Edinburgh International Book Festival are recruiting for the temporary roles of Box Office Assistant, Front of House Assistant, and Front of House Supervisor. Deadlines from 27 April.
Poet/Spoken Word Artist, Bucks Council
Deadline: 29/04/2025 - South East England
Buckinghamshire Council are seeking a Poet/Spoken Word Artist to collaborate and engage with community groups, including those with social needs, to capture their voices and reflections around the Follow The Donkey rail /foot trail, incorporating local heritage and community.
Jobs at Lumb Bank, Arvon
Deadline: 29/04/2025 - Yorkshire
Arvon is hiring! Join the team at Lumb Bank, our beautiful writing house in West Yorkshire. We’re recruiting for a House Operations Manager, House Manager and Relief House Manager.
Ronald Duncan Stipends, University of Exeter Special Collections
Deadline: 15/06/2025 - South West England
Are you passionate about archives, storytelling, and bringing history to life through writing? University of Exeter Special Collections has launched the annual Ronald Duncan Stipends for Southwest Writing.
Writer in residence for Creative Bridges 2025, Lapidus International
Deadline: 01/05/2025 - International
Lapidus International, the writing for wellbeing community, are looking for a Writer in Residence to respond to the Creative Bridges conference.
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.
Genesis JLF Emerging Writers Programme - £1,500 Funding and Mentorship
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - UK
The Genesis JLF Emerging Writers Programme is open to emerging writers in Poetry, Fiction and Non-fiction, and offers bursaries, one-on-one mentoring, peer support, workshops and industry meetings.
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.
Dithering Chaps' Poetry Chapbook Submissions Window
Deadline: 30/09/2025 - International
Dithering Chaps is a Dorset-based, not-for-profit publisher of poetry chapbooks (30-60 pages). Our submissions window is open for ten-page samples of your work. Open to writers worldwide.
Ignitionpress: Open for submissions
Deadline: 21/05/2025 - International
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre's award-winning poetry pamphlet press ignitionpress is open for submissions from emerging poets until 21 May 2025.
Clydebuilt 18: poetry mentoring programme
Deadline: 26/06/2025 - Scotland
Applications are now open for Clydebuilt 18, a free year-long programme that offers emerging poets the chance to work with an experienced mentor and develop a portfolio of new work.
2025 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize
Deadline: 14/07/2025 - International
The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.
Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award
Deadline: 01/07/2025 - International
Each year, The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation administers the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and offer them the recognition and encouragement that might lead to a successful career in television scriptwriting.
Film Hub North: Script Lab 2025
Deadline: 20/05/2025 - North East England
Script Lab is back, offering 10 new writers based in the North of England expert guidance and support to turn a short film idea into a ready-to-shoot script.
The Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines)
Deadline: 31/05/2025 - International
Poems can be in any style or form, but must be in English, and written for adults. Max 40 lines. No theme. Judge: T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize-winner, Georges Szirtes.
Hastings Book Festival Writing Competitions 2025
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
Entries are invited for this year's Hastings Book Festival Writing Competitions. The main competition is for writers of short story and poetry and can be on any theme. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world. There are also two prizes for Sussex writers.
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Conversations With Our Bodies
Region: International
If your body could speak, what would it say? Have you ever had a conversation with it on the page? In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll explore ways to connect with our bodies and hear their voices through writing. Kate will also share findings from her MSc research on mind-body writing, plus tips for using these discoveries in your own life.
Arvon Residential Writing Course: Screenwriting - Develop and pitch ideas that will work on TV with Lisa Holdsworth and Jess Green
Region: Yorkshire
So, you have some great ideas that you think will work on your favourite channel or streamer. But how do you catch the eye of a development executive or commissioner? How do you even know what they are looking for?
SCBWI Picture Book Retreat 2025
Region: West Midlands
Join us at Holland House for an inspiring long weekend immersed in the art of picture book making. Whether you're polishing a manuscript, seeking inspiration, or wanting to learn from industry professionals, this retreat provides the perfect space to grow and create in a supportive and enriching environment.
The Poetry Business Online Workshop: Poetry of Childhood, Time, and Change with Romalyn Ante
Region: International
In this generative workshop, we will explore the shifting landscapes of memory through poetry.
Writing West Midlands: The National Writers Conference 2025: Sustaining Your Writing
Region: West Midlands
Join Writing West Midlands for a day filled with dynamic panel discussions, insightful presentations, and excellent networking opportunities with writers from across the country. Tickets are selling fast so book now to secure your place.
Southbank Literary/Reading for Wellbeing Excursion with Nicole Moody
Region: London
Are you a bibliophile who loves exploring literary history and bookstores? This event will provide an introduction to the rich history and culture in the Southbank area as we will delve into exploring poetry and plays through visits to the National Theatre and Poetry Library.
Springtime writing week
Region: International
Write & Shine's Spring Salon takes place from Monday 19 to Friday 23 May 2025. Join us for a week of early morning writing workshops, where we'll dive deep into sensory writing.
Lapidus Scotland: Gerry Loose memorial renga (Spring)
Region: Scotland
A walking renga in Glasgow Botanic Gardens remembering the late Gerry Loose.
UAL Intermediate Poetry Online Short Course
Region: International
Taught through a combination of lectures, close reading, discussion and exercises, this exciting six-week course is designed to help students broaden their understanding of poetry.
A Sense of Place at The Biscuit Factory with Amanda Quinn
Region: North East England
Discover the importance of place in your writing with experienced writer and tutor, Amanda Quinn. Whether you’re writing about real or fantasy worlds, you’ll learn how to create and describe settings in vivid detail. You’ll explore how settings interact with characters and how they can set the mood of a piece of writing.
Hermit Crabs as Queer Forms
Region: International
How do we relate to the containers and structures we live with(in)? How do they change us, and how do we change them? What contradictions come to light when we examine the ways we seek to make home? This four-week course offers space and provocation to write into these questions through a focus on hermit crab essays and their limits & possibilities as queer forms.
Manchester Experimental Poetry and Arts Festival 2025
Region: North West England
Join us for the inaugural Manchester Experimental Poetry and Arts Festival on 17 May 2025 from 1–6 pm at Centenary Gardens, Manchester (M16 9QE). Free entry.
Write What You Know: Characterisation
Region: International
A one-hour online Zoom workshop exploring how to craft authentic, nuanced fictional human beings using a little (ethical) identity theft...
New Writing North: Stories from Life with Richard Benson
Region: International
Do you want to share your experiences and memories, and write powerful stories that people love reading? Would you like to express yourself in a way that means people get to read about the events, places and communities that mean something to you?
Poetry Technique Masterclass Webinars - 3 session series
Region: International
Nine Arches Press poets will lead 3 x 1 hour webinars exploring poetry techniques from traditional form, line breaks and rhythm and using punctuation (or not) in poetry. Monday evenings in June: 9th, 16th and 23rd, 7pm-8pm BST. All 3 sessions for just £45.
Poetry School: Fourteen Lines, Myriad Methods: Experimental Sonnet Studio with James Davies
Region: International
‘Doesn’t sound like no sonnet, my lord’. Sonneteering has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen its reinvention time and time again in staggering ways, suggesting there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer.
Summer term of verse: 7 weekly writing workshops & open mic trip
Region: London
verse is a queer-led creative writing group designed to improve your craft, overcome writer’s block and nourish your creative wellbeing with award-winning poet and playwright, Toby Campion. For complete beginners & experienced writers looking to re-invigorate their practice.
Rebecca Swift Foundation: Women Poets' Webinar - Fusion Poets
Region: UK
Part of the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s two-year By Poets, For Poets programme, these webinars are designed to support women poets at all stages of their journey toward building a fulfilling career. Our next webinar is all about crafting a fulfilling poetry career while pushing artistic boundaries.
Word Factory presents: Small Like a Bullet (2) with Tom Fowler
Region: International
One writer, one story. An in-depth series of exclusive masterclasses on the short story form running until July 2025. The second story in our series is Tom Vowler's V.S Pritchett Prize-winning story, Voyagers.
The 2025 PEN Lecture with Kamila Shamsie
Region: North East England
New Writing North is hosting this year's annual PEN Lecture in Newcastle on 19 June 2025. Home Fire author Kamila Shamsie will be reflecting on the state of free expression in our current era of upheaval and conflict and exploring the hope that the principles of the PEN Charter – from one of the world's oldest human rights organisations – offer for the future. Chaired by Preti Taneja, NCLA.
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