Black Writing Jobs and Residencies 2025 - Week 7
Get paid for your artistry.
Every week, we will summarize jobs and residencies of interest for new and upcoming writers of color. Please take advantage of these resources and share with your networks. You are a good writer, and you deserve to be paid for your efforts. Get your words out into the world.
Positions, Fellowships, and Residencies
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - CREATIVE WRITING FICTION/CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Central Washington University
Details for this position are limited.
Deadline: rolling
Payment: $70,000
Details here.
SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
Yellow Arrow Publishing
Goals for this position: Support women-identifying creatives within the Yellow Arrow community by overseeing Yellow Arrow’s social media efforts, including scheduling, reviewing, and developing our social media strategy across multiple sites/apps.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: small monthly stipend
Details here.
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, GALLERY BOOKS & THRESHOLD EDITIONS
Simon & Schuster
Gallery Books and Threshold Editions seek an editorial assistant to support two editors, focused on politics/current events books as well as narrative nonfiction. Responsibilities include: reviewing manuscripts; general administrative duties; organizing and scheduling meetings in MS Outlook; communicating with authors and agents by phone and email; expense tracking; evaluating a high volume of manuscripts; handling all aspects of transmitting books to production. This is a hybrid (2-3 days in office) role, based out of NYC.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: $50,000
Details here.
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
Hachette Book Group
An Editorial Assistant opening at the Grand Central Publishing imprint responsible for providing editorial and administrative support to an Executive Editor who acquires SFF and Horror and adjacent fiction categories and an Executive Editor who acquires non-fiction specializing in music, pop culture, biography, and memoir. This is a NYC based role. HBG's current hybrid model is 3 days in-office, 2 days working from home.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: $47,500
Details here.
Writing Instructor
midnight & indigo
midnight & indigo is seeking applicants to the paid, contract position of Writing Instructor for its online writing program, which serves Black women writers of all experience levels. The program is interested in course proposals from Writing Instructors based on short story writing; novel writing; essay writing; craft; specific genres, especially speculative; editing; workshopping; analysis and discussion of books by Black and POC writers; and more. Classes must focus on craft, with the intention to help writers become more confident, skilled, and effective in their prose. They should include a combination of lecture/instruction, writing exercises, and in-class discussions. Courses should be formatted into 1-day, 2-day, 2-week, 3-week, or 4-week seminars. Individual class sessions should run from 90 minutes to 3 hours each. The program is open to instructors with a wide range of teaching, writing, and experience levels.
Deadline: rolling
Payment: per-hour pay scale TBD
Details here.
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT
WTAW Press
WTAW, an award-winning literary nonprofit organization that publishes books of prose, is seeking a Social Media Assistant to join its team. Prospective assistants should enjoy social media and content-creation, particularly literary and writing-related content, and either be actively engaged or enthusiastic about becoming actively engaged with those communities online. The ideal candidate will have experience within communications and social media management, specifically with nonprofit organizations or literary arts organizations, publications, or presses. Reporting to the Director, the Social Media Assistant will be responsible for maintaining and updating WTAW's social media channels.”
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: not specified
Details here.
LECTURER - POOL FACULTY OF ART (MFA ART & SOCIAL PRACTICE)
Sam Houston State University
The Department of Art at Sam Houston State University invites applications for part-time lecturer-pool faculty to teach a course entitled Professional and Social Practice in the MFA in Art & Social Practice program. We are seeking a candidate with the ability to teach 1 class online in Fall 2024. In this course emphasis is placed on grant writing as well as developing proposals for projects and exhibitions that emphasize community engagement and participation. Students in the course will be encouraged to organize and promote public dissemination of their work.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: Competitive salary
Details here.
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT (NYC Hybrid)
Harper Collins
We have an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Assistant to join the Ecco team! The Editorial Assistant will provide administrative and editorial support to two Senior Editors specializing in literary fiction, literature in translation, poetry, cookbooks, and non-fiction across a wide range of genres including cultural criticism, journalism, history, narrative history, memoir, and food writing. This role is based in New York City and will require someone in commutable distance to come into the office on a hybrid basis.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: $48,500
Details here.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, POETRY AND BOOK REVIEWS
University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
This is one of two Associate Editor positions at The Georgia Review. This Associate Editor of poetry, in concert with the Associate Editor of prose, is responsible to the Editor of The Georgia Review for performing high-quality editorial work dealing primarily with screening of submissions from the online submissions manager program, selecting and preparing works for potential publication, and attending acquisitions meetings in which such manuscripts are evaluated. Some manuscripts approved by the acquisitions team will be assigned to an Associate Editor by the Editor for final editing. Although this Associate Editor specializes in poetry, each Associate Editor is fluent in all genres. Additionally, this position leads the book review section along with the editor, which involves screening unsolicited review submissions, assigning reviews, and corresponding with presses, among other things.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: competitive salary
Details here.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
Belmont University (Nashville, TN)
Required Qualifications: Belmont University seeks to attract and retain highly qualified faculty and staff who will support our mission and vision. As a Christ-centered and student-focused community, we aim to: Form diverse leaders of character; Equip people to solve the world’s complex problems through teaching, research and service; And be radical champions for helping people and communities flourish. A Ph.D. in English or Creative Writing or progress toward a terminal degree in the field of study is required. Teaching experience at the undergraduate level in higher education, related professional experience is required. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in creative nonfiction as well as one or more of the following: secondary experience in fiction and/or poetry; young adult or graphic novels; literary magazines/journals; hybrid forms. Additionally, successful candidates will have published work in literary journals and/or at least one published book of creative (non)fiction. Additional responsibilities include academic advising, student mentoring, scholarly activity, and college and university service.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: not specified
Details here.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - CREATIVE WRITING
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) English Department invites applications for the tenure-track position of assistant professor in creative writing. We seek a colleague who is passionate about teaching and mentoring a diverse population of undergraduate and graduate students; has a book published or under contract or a comparable publication record in literary journals, magazines, or other media; a promising publishing agenda; and a commitment to community building. Applicants who can teach in more than one genre of creative writing (e.g, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction) are especially of interest. An M.F.A. or Ph.D. in creative writing should be in hand by August 2025.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: $80,000 - $85,000
Details here.
ADJUNCT LECTURER - ENGLISH
SUNY Cortland
The department is establishing a pool of applicants to fill potential part-time temporary in -person teaching positions. A classroom based 3 credit hour course pays $4000 per class. Student teacher supervision pays per placement for one student teacher for one quarter (8 weeks). The department typically hires for the courses/subject areas listed below but this list is not all inclusive. Other courses/subject areas may become available within the department. ILLUSTRATIVE NEEDS INCLUDE : Writing Studies I and II, and Supervision of Student Teachers.
Deadline: until position is filled
Payment: $4,000 per 3 credit hour course
Details here.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE WRITING
Stanford University
The Creative Writing Program (CWP) at Stanford University seeks an Associate Director (AD) who will have broad administrative and educational responsibilities, with a particular focus on undergraduate education. Stanford’s Creative Writing Program is one of the oldest and most prominent programs in the field. Its faculty maintain significant artistic careers, while remaining deeply committed to graduate and undergraduate teaching. In addition, each year, CWP offers ten successful applicants (five in fiction and five in poetry) the chance to participate in the two-year, graduate-level Stegner Fellowship, which has produced many celebrated writers since it was founded in 1946. CWP also plays a significant role in undergraduate education at Stanford, with more than 1,000 undergraduates taking a creative writing class each year. The CWP is housed institutionally within the English Department, and students may take a rigorously structured English major with a Creative Writing emphasis or minor in Creative Writing, which is currently the most popular minor at Stanford.
Deadline: February 14
Payment: $105,000 - $120,000
Details here.
A PUBLIC SPACE EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP
A Public Space
We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2025 Editorial Fellowships, a program for aspiring editors, will open on January 15, 2025. Established in 2019, the Editorial Fellowships at A Public Space aim to support the next generation of editors who will offer a more diverse publishing community—culturally, aesthetically, economically; and to explore new possibilities for editing, writing, and literature. Learn about previous Editorial Fellows, and the work they edited for the magazine, here. A Public Space is an independent, nonprofit publisher of a literary and arts magazine and A Public Space Books. The Editorial Fellowship is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience as well as mentorship and education in editing and independent publishing. Two Editorial Fellows will be selected to work alongside the editorial staff at A Public Space on various aspects of the magazine, including evaluating submissions, researching, developing, and soliciting work, editing, copyediting, proofreading, production, and promotion. They will also have the opportunity to oversee an Open Call and serve as the lead editor on a piece for the magazine.
Deadline: February 15
Payment: $6,000
Details here.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIP AT THE BARD PRISON INITIATIVE
The Paris Review
The Paris Review Visiting Professorship at the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is a one- or two-year position, beginning in September 2025; a distinguished writer will join the Bard College community and teach the study of literature to students earning Bard College undergraduate degrees either while incarcerated or at one of BPI’s microcolleges in New York City. The Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature will design and teach a total of three courses across the fall and spring semesters. Courses should focus on the study of literature rather than creative writing.
Deadline: March 15
Payment: $8,000
Details here.
A PUBLIC SPACE SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
New York
A Public Space is accepting applications for summer internships on a rolling basis. The internship program provides practical experience in critical reading, research, copyediting, and fact-checking; marketing and publicity, including social media and events; and an overview of an independent nonprofit literary organization as well as an introduction to the publishing community. To apply for one of these positions, please upload (as one file): (1) a completed application (see below); and (2) your résumé. Interns will work on their own schedule, and will have responsibilities of approximately fifteen hours weekly. While the start date is flexible, Interns must be able to make an eight-week commitment. Remote applicants are welcome but must be able to attend two weekly remote/virtual meetings during regular office hours. Interns based in New York City will have the opportunity to attend staff meetings in-person and participate in events in the city. Interns receive compensation of $2,000.
Deadline: May 31; accepting applications on a rolling basis
Payment: $2000
Details here.