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NAWE Online Conference 2025: Inspiring Writing
Friday 7 & Saturday 8 November 2025, Online

Call for proposals - Four weeks to go!

The clock is ticking! You have a month to send us your proposals for presentations and workshops for this year's NAWE Online Conference around our theme of 'Inspiring Writing'. We can't wait to hear your ideas! If you missed our guidance session on the do's and don'ts of proposal writing, email admin@nawe.co.uk for the PPT/recording.  Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2025.

NAWE Publications 

Writing in Education Issue 95 – Online Now 
In this issue: calls for the return of handwriting and for using poetry across the curriculum, plus the return of Writing in Education's fiction section.
Download Issue 95 here (Member access only - please remember to log in)

Writing in Education Issue 96: Please submit by 20 August 2025.

NAWE’s Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research Volume 12 (Special issue exploring innovative & reflective approaches to creative writing pedagogy across all educational contexts)Please submit by midnight (GMT), 26 January 2026.

Prize Draw: Thanks to the generosity of Palgrave Macmillan, we have a copy of Writing Ecofiction: Navigating the Challenges of Environmental Narrative by Kevan Manwaring to give away. This creative writing textbook introduces students to ecofiction: narrative writing that focuses on the environment.. Email pjohnston@nawe.co.uk with Writing Ecofiction in the subject line and your name, address and telephone number in the body of the email by 5pm, Tuesday 6 May 2025 for a chance to win.

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Jobs
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.

Competitions/Submissions
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.
The Masters Review: Best Emerging Writers 2025
Deadline: 08/06/2025 - International
The Masters Review’s long-running anthology series returns for the fourteenth year. If you’re a writer of fiction or creative nonfiction who has not yet published a novel or memoir with a major press, this is the contest for you.
Channel 4 Writing for TV Awards – Bonafide Films
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - North East England
Writers across the North of England are invited to submit their work for the Channel 4 Writing for TV Awards. Part of The Northern Writers’ Awards.


Events
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.
Arvon Saturday Writing Club (Online)
Region: International
Writing doesn’t have to be a solitary experience. The Saturday Writing Club is your monthly creative check-in - an hour of low-pressure, high-impact writing time with a welcoming community.
Out-Spoken: The Poetry Room, May 2025 - Register Now
Region: International
The Poetry Room is a four-week online mini course facilitated by Anthony Anaxagorou. The purpose of The Poetry Room is to find innovative ways of getting poems up on their feet by leading with a series of distinct prompts focused on certain themes and subjects.
Revisiting ‘A Serious Man’: creative writing workshops with Anna Morvern
Region: International
Summer 2025 series of three workshops on the Coen brothers’ 2009 film, 'A Serious Man'. Participants need to have watched the film before attending the workshops but certainly do not need to be film studies graduates, creative writing experts or similar (open to all). There will be encouragement, but no requirement, to share creative writing produced during the workshops.
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre: Stratifying Dialects
Region: South East England
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is excited to announce 'Stratifying Dialects': a critical-creative symposium about the relationship between environmental memory and poetry that will be taking place at Oxford Brookes University on Wednesday 7 May 2025 from 10am-4.30pm.
Launceston Poetry Festival 2025
Region: South West England
The Charles Causley Trust presents the first-ever Launceston Poetry Festival, taking place from Thursday 29 May to Sunday 1 June 2025 in the beautiful Cornish town of Launceston, the beloved home of poet Charles Causley.
The Story in a Song
Region: International
Find the music in your writing with this four-part weekly workshop series throughout June at The Joy of Fixion. Immerse yourself in a varied playlist and use writing exercises to inspire stories, characters, settings and ideas.
Neurodivergent Creatives: This Is for You
Region: International
Divergent Creatives is now open for registration. This three-month programme is designed to help you, as a neurodivergent writer, build a sustainable and joyful creative practice that truly works for your unique needs. Follow your writing dreams without burnout, stress, or guilt, and create from a place of freedom and authenticity.
Meet Me in the Estuary: Writing as Ecotone
Region: International
The workshop will draw on specific bodies of water that have shaped its development, while extending invitations to engage with the liminal bodies of water that speak most to you.
Creative Writing Kickstart at The Biscuit Factory with Amanda Quinn
Region: North East England
Whether you’re new to creative writing or a writer wanting fresh inspiration, this workshop will encourage and support you to get writing and stay motivated.

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