Seattle Arts & Lectures
Writers In The Schools ( WITS ) Apprentice
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Eligibility: Requirements: • A commitment to participate fully in the program (inclusive of 20 in-class hours and 70 administrative/prep hours), as detailed above. Exact schedule to be determined later. • A practicing writer with a demonstrated record of work in the study, publication, and/or performance of creative writing. The candidate need not have publication records, but must be actively working on their own writing and an eager participant in the literary community. More requirements on the link.
Position Description: Writers in the Schools (WITS), a literary arts education program of Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL), places professional local writers in public K-12 schools throughout the Puget Sound region for extended creative writing residencies during the school day.
For the coming 2025-26 school year, we are hiring two paid WITS Writer Apprentices. Apprentices are practicing writers in the community who will observe and work alongside two experienced WITS Writers-in-Residence who will serve as WITS Mentors. We welcome applications from writers of diverse mediums; we are looking for poets, prose writers, playwrights, cartoonists/graphic novelists, and memoirists.
We especially encourage Black writers, Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers from the LGBTQ+ community, multilingual writers, and writers from interdisciplinary backgrounds to apply. WITS Writer Apprentices must show a demonstrated commitment to anti-racist pedagogy and practice.
Complete job descriptions, work schedule, requirements, compensation, and how to apply are in the link on our website: https://lectures.org/opportunities/wits-apprentice/
More Information: lectures.org