Jobs

Deadline: Fri 22 Jun 2018
Location: Brighton

QueenSpark Books, the UK's longest-running community publisher, is seeking a Project Co-ordinator and an Evaluator for its Heritage Lottery Funded project Archives Alive. This is a two year project that will develop innovative online and offline initiatives in order to increase public accessibility to, engagement with, and enhancement of, QueenSpark's archive and related material.  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 22 Jun 2018
Location: Edinburgh

Perfect for those with an interest in children’s literature and event organisation, this role involves ensuring our Imagination Lab venue is set up for all events, meeting and greeting authors and ensuring they have everything they need for their event,as well as introducing some events. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 22 Jun 2018
Location: London

The Red Cross runs a range of services for asylum seekers, including men’s and women’s support groups. The men’s group is currently running arts workshops, focusing on producing personal narratives around experiences of migration and asylum, and are looking for community artists, in particular people with an expertise in creative writing, to facilitate these. As this is a men’s group, we are interested in working with a male artist. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 24 Jun 2018
Location: Aldershot

The West End Centre will be hosting 2 artists in residence for 5 days each at the Aldershot Lido during July/August 2018. Open to any art form (including literature). Artists will imaginatively engage visitors to the Lido in creative arts activities. Responses can be in any form (including creative writing) and will ideally contribute to some form of ‘end product’ to document the work, though this is not essential. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 25 Jun 2018
Location: Lichfield, Staffordshire

We are looking for experienced and resilient individuals who can work in challenging criminal justice settings including prisons and probation hostels. You will be required to facilitate weekly shared reading groups in order to promote reading, well-being and good mental health. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 25 Jun 2018
Location: Edinburgh

Scottish Book Trust, Scotland’s national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, is looking for a copy-editor/administrator to support the delivery of Book Week Scotland 2018. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 25 Jun 2018
Location: Bristol

This opportunity is open to creative practitioners (from or based in the UK), of any discipline (including literature and theatre), career stage and background, who have ideas for projects that blend art and technology. It is a fantastic opportunity to develop and share ideas, to meet incredible people, to make, experiment and think. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 27 Jun 2018
Location: London

Poetry School is the UK's leading provider of poetry education, an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and a dynamic and growing charity with a brand new home in Canada Water. A small friendly and creative team, we need a new colleague to administer our programme and streamline our systems. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 27 Jun 2018
Location: Brayford Pool

Due to continued expansion, the University of Lincoln's School of English and Journalism is seeking to appoint a Lecturer who will contribute to the delivery of a range of taught programmes. The successful applicant would be joining the new BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing programme as well as contributing to the BA (Hons) English programme and our MAs in English and Creative Writing.  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 29 Jun 2018
Location: London

Heart n Soul aims to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities. We have been chosen to lead a new project with the Wellcome Trust, which will investigate how relationships between people with and without learning disabilities affect mutual wellbeing. This groundbreaking project aims to radically transform attitudes towards learning disability, with people with learning disabilities co-leading the project.  Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Jun 2018
Location: Cardiff

The School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (0.5FT) in Creative Writing to join a team of experienced academics and creative practitioners.  Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Jun 2018
Location: Nottingham

We’re looking for an experienced writer who has written theatre pieces with LGBTQIA themes to lead a three hour master class at Nottingham Playhouse as part of Write Pride, an LGBT writing festival taking place in Nottingham in July 2018.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 1 Jul 2018
Location: Bristol

This is an exciting opportunity to join the growing Creative and Professional Writing undergraduate degree programme in the Department of Arts and Cultural Industries. The team is committed to sharing their ongoing experiences of professional practice in order to develop the creativity of students following the BA (Hons.) Creative & Professional Writing degree.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 2 Jul 2018
Location: UK

Jerwood Charitable Foundation seek an experienced and highly organised individual with an excellent track record of managing projects, ideally in the literary sector, who will be responsible for the development and delivery of the second edition of the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 2 Jul 2018
Location: Norwich

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing is seeking to appoint a twelve-month Lectureship or Lectureships in Creative Writing (Poetry) and/or Feminist Writing together with a 1.0 FTE Lectureship and a 0.5 FTE Lectureship in Crime Writing. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 6 Jul 2018
Location: Scotland

Scottish Book Trust seek an evaluator for the first full year of the Digital Storytellers in Residence programme, funded by Scottish Government and delivered by Scottish Book Trust.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 8 Jul 2018
Location: London

Eastside is an award-winning and market-leading provider of arts educational workshops to schools, local authorities and community groups and is one of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio Organisations. We are looking for experienced facilitators in specific artforms (including creative writing) to join our network.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 8 Jul 2018
Location: North Cornwall

Endelienta is a cultural organisation working to foster the arts and spirituality in North Cornwall. Building on the success and reputation of the St Endellion Music Festivals and on the unique setting of St Endellion, Endelienta promotes music, literature and arts through a year-round programme of events, offering more people the opportunity to participate in the arts in North Cornwall.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 8 Jul 2018
Location: London

The exciting new role of Development Manager has been created to help us to implement a joined-up strategy for our Local Development Programme, which aims to engage and empower authors, poets, screenwriters, translators and illustrators at all stages of their careers, throughout the UK. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 9 Jul 2018
Location: East Midlands

The National Memorial Arboretum is inviting applications from artists working in a range of artforms (including literature) who wish to develop their practice by working with the site’s collections, landscape and knowledge. The 2018 residency programme forms part of the Arboretum’s commemorations of the centenary of the Armistice and will respond to the theme of ‘Peace and Reconciliation.’  Read more...