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.

poet-in-residence position

Short, and you can only apply if you've got one book already. But still in the "sweet deals" category.

2008 Sandburg-Auden-Stein Residency
http://www.olivetcollege.edu/academics/humanities.php

Intensive Learning Term poet-in-residence program, April 29-May 16, 2008

From the early 1930s to the mid 1940s, Olivet College hosted some of the best-known writers of the time: Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Ann Porter, Carl Sandburg, Ford Madox Ford, W.H. Auden, and Gertrude Stein. In that tradition, Olivet has established an annual residency program for poets who are establishing a name for themselves in this new millennium.

During the 2008 Intensive Learning Term, the Olivet College Humanities Department will offer its second poet-in-residence position. The Sandburg-Auden-Stein poet will live on campus from April 29 – May 16, 2008, and teach ENG 247: Poetry Writing. The Sandburg-Auden-Stein poet will also host two public events: a public reading of his or her work and a stand-alone talk/discussion on a subject of his or her choice (publishing poetry, beat poets, def poetry, etc.).

An award of $3,100 (plus room and board) will be given to the 2008 resident poet. The Humanities Department faculty will evaluate the submissions and choose the winner. Poets who have published at least one book of poetry are eligible. Submit four copies of the following postmarked by Sept. 10, 2007: five poems from your most recent book, a single page personal statement regarding your poetics and teaching, a current resume and two references. There is no entry fee. Please contact Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer, Ph.D., Humanities Department chair, with your questions at (269) 749-7621 or khendershott-kraetzer(at)olivetcollege.edu (replace (at) with @).

Application materials should be sent by regular mail to:

Sandburg-Auden-Stein Residency
Humanities Department
Olivet College
320 S. Main St.
Olivet, MI 49076

residencies and fellowships and other sweet deals

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
The deadline is December 1, 2007.

Milton Center Fellowship
The deadline is March 15, 2008.

Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship
The deadline is October 15, 2007.

Stegner Fellowship
The deadline is November 30, 2007.

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
The deadline is sometime in February, 2008

Colgate University Fellowship in Creative Writing
deadline ambiguous

New York Public Library
The deadline is September 28, 2007.

Hodder Fellowship at Princeton
The deadline is November 1, 2007.

Richard Hugo House
ambiguous

Yaddo
January 1 or August 1

Axton Postdoctoral Fellowship
not currently accepting applications?

Also a useful list here...