UNC Chapel Hill Visiting Writer Position

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Creative Writing Program seek to bring an emerging talent to campus for a one-year teaching appointment as the Kenan Visiting Writer, a position that alternates between poetry and prose. For the 2008-09 academic year, beginning August 2008, the Program requests applicants in Poetry.

Requirements: Significant publication in major literary magazines; applicants must have NO MORE than one recently published book or one book under contract, previous college teaching experience, and a willingness to relocate to Chapel Hill for one year. MFA degree preferred but not required. Conditions of appointment include a one-year non-renewable appointment, a salary of $28,000, the ability to teach one undergraduate creative writing course per semester, and full participation in the life of the Creative Writing Program.

Mail c.v.; three letters of reference, two of which should be written by people familiar with the applicant's teaching abilities and who can evaluate applicant's suitability; up to 10 pp. of published work; and a 1-page personal statement indicating how an appointment of this sort would serve the applicant's needs & endeavors by February 1 to:
Bland Simpson, Director
Creative Writing Program/Visiting Writer Search Committee
Greenlaw Hall, CB#3520
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520.