In recent years, alongside the traditional book festival event, the Book Festival has explored new ways of presentation, bringing in theatre, music, spoken word and other genres. As well as working with publishers to present authors, there has been a growing body of work where the festival has commissioned writers and artists to create new work and performances for the August Book Festival.

In response to this, the increasing complexity of creative content and technical sophistication, the Book Festival is looking to appoint a Production Manager to work with the Programme team to enable the delivery of a range of performance events across the 18-day festival.

This will range from working closely with commissioned authors and artists over a sustained period of time to enable them to realise their creative ambitions for their events to working with authors or partner organisations to facilitate their technical requirements for event-ready performances.

Contract: Freelance, May – October 2019  Fee: £6,000 for 5 months

Key dates: The Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 10–26 August 2019, with the Baillie Gifford Schools Gala Day on 27 August.

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The deadline is Monday 18 March 2019 at 17:00.