Emerging Writer Lecturer In Creative Writing, 2025-2026

The Department of English at Gettysburg College invites applications for an Emerging Writer Lecturer, a one-year faculty position in Creative Writing beginning in August 2025. The writer will teach the equivalent of six courses, including Introduction to Creative Writing and advanced courses in the writer’s genre/s.

Genre is open, with preference for a writer of prose, and/or writing for stage and screen. The Emerging Writer Lecturer will mentor students interested in creative writing and publishing, help organize creative writing programming in collaboration with other members of the English Department, and assist with advising the undergraduate literary journal. We are especially interested in candidates committed to diversity and inclusion in their scholarship and teaching.