Jobs

Deadline: Mon 27 May 2019
Location: Carlisle

Creative Support is a high quality provider of person centred social care services for people with learning disabilities, mental health and other needs. We’re looking for artists with specialist experience in participatory and applied arts for a residency, engaging with up to 20 residents between the ages of 70 and 100 within one of our care homes in Carlisle. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 27 May 2019
Location: Scotland

Are you a writer who wants to advocate for writers? Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS) is a membership organisation committed to advancing the interests of Scotland’s literature and languages at home and abroad. We are looking to appoint five published writers living and working in Scotland to sit on our new Writers’ Advisory Group. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 27 May 2019
Location: Cumbria

The Wordsworth Trust, through funding it receives from Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation, is running a series of month-long poetry residencies between November 2019 and March 2020. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 30 May 2019
Location: Liverpool

Named in honour of the University’s Chancellor, the award-winning writer Colm Tóibín, the Department of English seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction). The Colm Tóibín Lecturer will be responsible for undergraduate Creative Writing teaching and postgraduate supervision of the MRes and PhD degrees in Creative Writing.  Read more...

Deadline: Thu 30 May 2019
Location: Edinburgh

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a wide range of events at one of the biggest Book Festivals in the world. In the lead up to the Festival, the role will be office-based. During the Festival, the role is hands-on and fast paced. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 May 2019
Location: Bristol

The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. It is made in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer Kevin Elyot (1951-2014) and the influence he has had on writing and the Arts. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 May 2019
Location: Sheffield

Sheffield Youth Justice Service is seeking Expressions of Interest from participatory artists working in South Yorkshire with availability during July and August to support the delivery of our Summer Arts College.  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 May 2019
Location: Cornwall

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first cable landing on the beach at Porthcurno in 1870, the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno (PK Trust) is partnering with the Minack Theatre Trust to commission a talented and committed playwright to write a new stage play for the Minack Theatre’s 2020 Season. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 May 2019
Location: North Cornwall

Endelienta offers a short residency to a composer, a writer and a visual artist. The residency consists of 7 days working on location at St Endellion in North Cornwall, from Thursday 19 to 26 September 2019. A stipend of £600 including travel expenses is available for a selected composer, a writer and an artist. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 1 Jun 2019
Location: Midlothian/East Lothian

Tyne & Esk Writers are looking for a Creative Writing Fellow to visit seven writing groups across Midlothian and East Lothian, providing both group and one-to-one feedback to group members. This is a paid, sessional position of ten hours per week for a period of six months from October 2019 to March 2020. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Jun 2019
Location: Wolverhampton

The School of Humanities is seeking to appoint a permanent part time 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing. The post will require you to deliver high-quality teaching across the existing suite of courses (and includes the areas of poetry the novel and non-fiction). An ability to teach humour writing, genre life-writing and/or American Literature would be advantageous. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Jun 2019
Location: Nottingham

Every Christmas, Nottingham Playhouse produces a family show aimed at younger children, in the Neville Studio. The production then tours to primary schools in the region. For the 2019/20 production we are producing Pinocchio and we’re looking for an East Midlands writer to commission. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Jun 2019
Location: London

We are currently looking for a part-time Associate Lecturer A to teach on a number of Fiction and Drama modules beginning October 2019. This is an exciting opportunity to join our teaching teams on the BA and MA Creative Writing Programmes in the School of Arts at Birkbeck. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Jun 2019
Location: Cleethorpes

Up to £5000 is available to support a variety of projects for the inaugural Festival of the Sky in Cleethorpes. Applications from people based in Lincolnshire and the North East are especially welcomed although anyone in the UK is eligible to apply. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 3 Jun 2019
Location: Dorset

ArtfulScribe and Lighthouse are looking for a Writer in Residence to work with Lighthouse staff, visitors and touring productions from September 2019 as part of the DO: Write Literature Development Project in Dorset. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 7 Jun 2019
Location: Northumberland

This summer New Writing North is partnering with the National Trust to offer a writing residency on the Durham Coast as part of Durham Book Festival. Open to writers who live and work in the North of England and have been previously published in the UK. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 10 Jun 2019
Location: Leeds

‘Stories from M&S Sheet Music – Leeds’ Piano History’ will explore the heritage of a significant collection of historic piano sheet music sold at Marks & Spencer in the early 20th century, and now held at the M&S Company Archive in Leeds. The project will involve a series of workshops, community curated performances, online resources and a public exhibition. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 12 Jun 2019
Location: Egham

Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing (0.5 FTE) in the Department of English. The successful candidate will join a team of prize-winning writers in the department, including seven Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 14 Jun 2019
Location: Edinburgh

Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose). The Department of English Literature seeks an enthusiastic colleague to provide excellent teaching and research in Creative Writing (Prose).  Read more...

Deadline: Fri 14 Jun 2019
Location: Manchester

Manchester was designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2017. A new charitable organisation is being established to coordinate Manchester City of Literature and we are looking for a dynamic leader to join us at this exciting time to help shape this brand-new organisation. Read more...