Jobs

Deadline: Mon 5 May 2025
Location: Wales

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and creative team to support the administration and delivery of Llenyddiaeth Cymru | Literature Wales’ projects and wider programme, which aims to create a Wales where literature empowers, improves, and brightens lives. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 6 May 2025
Location: London

We’re looking for an enthusiastic person who is keen to develop their career in the arts and deepen their passion for literature, cultural democracy and supporting London’s writers. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 6 May 2025
Location: London

Inkhead is expanding! We are a group of writers who run creative writing workshops in schools and libraries across London. We are looking for more writers to join us. Your role will be encouraging children to express their creativity in after-school clubs in south London. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 8 May 2025
Location: London

The Department of English wishes to appoint a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing (Academic Education Pathway), 0.6 FTE, for a fixed-term period of 12 months, from 1 September 2025.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 12 May 2025
Location: London/Liverpool/Remote

We are looking for a creative and highly organised individual to join Forward Arts Foundation's ambitious and dynamic team. You will coordinate marketing and comms for our organisation's fundraising and development work. Available as a permanent part-time contract or freelance contract. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 18 May 2025
Location: Germany

The Hertzlab at ZKM in Karlsruhe (UNESCO City of Media Arts) in collaboration with Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature invites poets from UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide to apply for its new residency program. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 19 May 2025
Location: Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Book Festival are seeking an Author Hospitality Manager and Author Hospitality Assistants. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 23 May 2025
Location: Edinburgh/hybrid

Applications are invited for a part-time (0.4 FTE) post of Writer in Residence based in the department of English & Scottish Literature. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 25 May 2025
Location: Stroud

We are seeking a poet-in-residence to deliver six weekly sessions at a care home in Stroud as part of our Poetry Cares programme in July and August 2025. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 26 May 2025
Location: Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway

Wigtown Festival Company is seeking a creative leader to guide one of Scotland’s most valued cultural organisations into its next chapter. Our new Chief Executive Officer will champion our mission, strengthen our impact and build on our hard-earned reputation. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 1 Jun 2025
Location: St Andrews, Yale

You will lead your class of international students (aged 13 - 18) in either St Andrews or Yale through engaging lessons and cover all phases of the writing process from idea generation to writing/revising drafts and editing, supporting them to produce original poems, scripts and short stories. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 6 Jun 2025
Location: Cambridge

The Briena Staunton Visiting Writer Fellowship is held in partnership by Pembroke College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin, and rotates between the institutions. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 15 Jun 2025
Location: Exeter

Are you passionate about archives, storytelling, and bringing history to life through writing? University of Exeter Special Collections has launched the annual Ronald Duncan Stipends for Southwest Writing.  Read more...