This is a designated role which we will be offering to someone from one of the following under represented backgrounds; Black, Asian or other minority ethnic background, d/Deaf or disabled, Transgender or non-binary.

This is because we recognise that individuals in these groups currently receive fewer opportunities to work within the arts and we would like to create more space for this.

The Poetry Business is one of the most established poetry organisations in the UK, with 34 years of experience of developing and publishing outstanding new poets. Our poets have won, been shortlisted for or highly commended in almost every major poetry prize including the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the National Poetry Competition, and in both 2012 and 2017 The Poetry Business won the Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet Publishers.

We are committed to pursuing ambitious and imaginative new projects which celebrate some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the UK and beyond. We pride ourselves in fostering new writing talent, and offering continued support to poets working at all levels, throughout their writing careers.

In this role, you will be mentored by Suzannah Evans – one of The Poetry Business’s in-house editors, in selecting and preparing two new titles for publication in December 2021. These new titles will be selected by open submission.

The role will equate around one day per week for six months, but there may be an uneven spread of days when work is busy (particularly around March/April when reading submissions and June when preparing the titles for publication). You will have some freedom as to how you arrange your working hours as long as you can be available for meetings.

Home-based. Fee - £2,500 for 1 day/week over a 6 month period.

Find out more here

Deadline: 9am on Friday 29th January 2021