Jobs

Deadline: Sun 18 Nov 2018
Location: Basildon

Whether a born and bred Basildonian, or from further afield, we invite you to join us in hosting your own two month pop-up cultural project in Basildon. We’ll be providing grants of between £250 - £1500, as well as your very own shop unit in the centre of town for two months. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 19 Nov 2018
Location: Edinburgh

Do you want to transform lives through reading & writing? Scottish Book Trust, a national charity, is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced manager to provide maternity cover for the strategic development, design and delivery of our Government-funded attainment programmes: Read Write Count and First Minister’s Reading Challenge.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 19 Nov 2018
Location: Newcastle

The Programme Officer (Participation and Young People) will work with the Senior Manager (Participation and Young People) to deliver artistically ambitious projects and initiatives, which engage people in our work, including through the innovative use of digital technology Read more...

Deadline: Wed 21 Nov 2018
Location: Wales

Literature Wales are offering an opportunity for a poet new to the field of running workshops to co-lead a project for 11-14 year olds alongside an experienced workshop facilitator in the South Powys area. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 22 Nov 2018
Location: Westminster

The School of Humanities seeks to employ a 0.5fte Lecturer in Creative Writing to contribute to its teaching and research activities. These include a rich portfolio of undergraduate combined degrees in English and Creative Writing and MA courses in Creative Writing, English, Cultural and Critical Studies and Visual Culture.  Read more...

Deadline: Thu 22 Nov 2018
Location: North East

The evaluation will particularly focus on Gateshead Young Writers. This is a brand new programme funded by the Kavli Trust and taking place over two years.  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 23 Nov 2018
Location: South Devon

We are looking for a Production Assistant and Fundraiser to help organise one of the largest and most prestigious literature festivals in Britain. Ways With Words was founded 27 years ago and currently runs three festivals a year. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 23 Nov 2018
Location: Cornwall

Goonhilly Village Green 2 is an artist-led investigation of a unique landscape, Goonhilly Downs on Cornwall’s Lizard peninsular. We want to work with a writer with interests in land management/ownership/use who can contextualise our approach as artists to engaging wider publics in understanding the complex histories connected to this unique area.  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 23 Nov 2018
Location: London

Ministry of Stories is looking for an inspirational leader to become its new Director. This is a pivotal period for the charity, as we are refining our core creative writing programme and exploring sustainable ways of reaching even more young people in London and across the country through a series of pilot projects that will help chart the next steps in the Ministry’s development. We are a national portfolio organisation of Arts Council England until 2022.  Read more...

Deadline: Sat 24 Nov 2018
Location: South Downs

South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) and Applause Rural Touring (ART) are pleased to announce a new partnership to commission a spoken word inspired show that explores and records residents relationship, thoughts and feelings of the South Downs National Park and will tour across the region in 2019 as part of the Inn Crowd project. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 26 Nov 2018
Location: South Tyneside

We are looking to offer between two to three R & D commissions to artists or arts organisations who would like to develop exceptional new ideas that tell the story of The Customs House, and this area of South Tyneside, particularly its past in shipbuilding, coal mining and more recently in the arts. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 26 Nov 2018
Location: Leeds

The School of Cultural Studies and Humanities is seeking to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Creative Writing to contribute to the development and delivery of its undergraduate and postgraduate courses and the supervision of research students in this disciplinary field.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 28 Nov 2018
Location: Norwich

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing is seeking to appoint a 0.5FTE twelve-month Lectureship in Creative Writing to cover a period of maternity leave. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Nov 2018
Location: Portsmouth

The Portsmouth City archives, the written memory of the people of Portsmouth from the fifteenth century until the present, are held in Portsmouth Central Library and Southsea Library. Portsmouth Library and Archive Service is looking for a Poet in Residence to immerse themselves in the collections,responding to the resources creatively, and communicating with and engaging new audiences as part of an Arts Council England funded project called City of Stories which has an aim of increasing access to and engagement with the City's archives.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 2 Dec 2018
Location: Leeds

Artists from any artform, makers and creatives working in the larger creative sector are invited to apply to participate in the Leeds Creative Labs: Biological Sciences 2nd Edition. Four successful applicants will each be matched with an academic or academic team from the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Dec 2018
Location: Wales

Literature Wales is delighted to be working with the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales to search for a Future Generations Poet in Residence. This is a new and exciting opportunity for an emerging poet in Wales to bring the Act to life. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Dec 2018
Location: Surrey

Arts Partnership Surrey are seeking a number of artists and creative practitioners to provide creative engagement opportunities for people of all ages affected by or experiencing mental health challenges. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Dec 2018
Location: London

Poetry London is one of the UK’s most prestigious and best-selling poetry magazines. We are seeking to appoint a freelance Poetry Editor with executive responsibility for the magazine, to lead the editorial team, and to edit the poems for all issues of the magazine from Autumn 2019. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 2 Jan 2019
Location: North Carolina

The Duke University English Department in North Carolina welcomes nominations and applications for a distinguished fiction writer with a national or international reputation for a position as Full Professor or Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing. We welcome applications from writers working in any national, transnational, or diasporic Anglophone tradition.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 2 Jan 2019
Location: North Carolina

The Duke University English Department in North Carolina welcomes applications for a Lecturer or Assistant Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing from writers working in any national, transnational, or diasporic Anglophone tradition. Read more...