University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kenan Visiting Writer. The Department of English & 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 & prose.

For the 2007-2008 academic year, beginning August 2007, the Program requests applicants in PROSE, fiction and/or literary non-fiction. Requirements: significant publication in major
literary magazines; applicants should have published one recent book or have one book under contract, no more; previous college teaching experience; willingness to relocate to Chapel Hill for one year; MFA degree preferred but not required.

Conditions of appointment: one-year non-renewable appointment; salary, $28,000; will teach one undergraduate creative writing course per semester, probably on an introductory level; must give one major public reading & otherwise participate fully in the life of the Creative Writing Program.

Materials needed: c.v.; three letters of reference, two of which should be written by
people familiar with the applicant’s teaching abilities & who ccan evaluate applicant’s suitability; up to ten pages of published work; one-page personal statement indicating how an appointment of this sort would serve the applicant’s needs & endeavors.

Deadline, February 1, 2007. Mail applications & all supporting materials to:
Bland Simpson,
Director, Creative Writing Program / Visiting Writer Search Committee
Greenlaw Hall CB# 3520
UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520.