The Jerwood Writer in Residence 2022 programme is an opportunity for promising UK-based early-career visual arts writers to develop their practice. The residency aims to support these writers to produce up to five responses during their residency, with workload adapted to support more ambitious activities within the project accordingly. It is aimed at writers who are seeking an opportunity to explore their experimental critical voices and have their practice engaged with across Jerwood Arts’ audience and extended networks.

There are two Jerwood Writer in Residence opportunities in 2022. Each residency is six months long and responds to two of three exhibitions.

Who is it for: Applicants must be living and working in the UK, be outside formal education at the time of application and throughout their chosen residency period and must be able to demonstrate at least one year's track record of professional writing practice but not yet be regularly contributing to established arts publications. While we do accept applications from fiction and poetry writers, we ask that you demonstrate past experience of writing critically about exhibitions and/or visual art in your application.

Benefit: Writers will receive a £1,500 fee, a £300 mentoring budget and a £500 production budget. Writers may use the £1,500 fee to research towards their self-directed interests and the production budget to disseminate their thinking and research through means of an event, DIY publication, video recording, podcast or other activity. Responses are hosted on the Writing and Media pages on the Jerwood Arts website and shared through our social media channels. Where the opportunity allows, Jerwood Arts will aim to share writer’s responses across our partnerships in order to even further extend the writers’ reach.

Deadline: 24. November 2021

Website: Apply here