Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose)

The Role

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose) 0.5 FTE (Teaching and Scholarship). This is a fixed-term appointment: the start date is 8 September 2025 and the end date is 30 June 2026. 

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (SELLL) currently has 71 members of academic and research staff working across the fields of English Literature, Creative Writing and Language and Linguistics. Together with our 750 undergraduate students, over 100 taught postgraduate students and a similar number of postgraduate researchers, we form a thriving and highly motivated intellectual community, dedicated to excellence and innovation in teaching and research. 79% of our research in Literature and Creative Writing was rated as world leading in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment, with the THES ranking our School 1st in the English Language and Literature Unit of Assessment. Our teaching was rated as ‘excellent’ in the last Quality Assurance Agency audit.

The Creative Writing Subject Group in SELLL has specific expertise across various areas. It is home to prize-winning poets, prose writers, playwrights and screen writers. In poetry: Tara Bergin (T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, and Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlisted); Sinéad Morrissey (winner of T.S. Eliot Prize, 2014 and Forward Prize, 2017), and Jake Polley (winner of T.S. Eliot Prize, 2016). 

In addition to the wide range of undergraduate teaching and learning offered by the Creative Writing Subject Group within SELLL, we also lead the MA in Creative Writing and the MA in Writing Poetry, the latter run jointly with the Poetry School in London.

For further enquiries, please contact Professor Helen Freshwater, Interim Head of School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (Helen.Freshwater@newcastle.ac.uk).

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