Forward Prizes for Poetry – Freelance support brief

This is an opportunity for an efficient and highly organised person to support the Forward Arts Foundation’s creative and dynamic team in readying the submissions for the 2025 Forward Prizes juries.

This role will help assess eligibility for the Forward Prizes. The ideal candidate will have a good knowledge of UK and ROI poetry publishing and will be detail oriented, organised, efficient and an excellent communicator.

This is a freelance contract role to be delivered flexibly, with a few required contact points with the Co-Executive Director and Head of Programmes throughout the contract period.

Please note: you will not be eligible to enter the prizes (or have a collection/poem entered for you) if you take on this role.

CLOSING DATE: 05 January 2024
INTERVIEW DATE: 20 January 2023
CONTRACT DATES: 3 February 2023 to 2 May 2023 (with bulk of work end of Feb to March)