Jill Dawson has taught creative writing on a freelance basis since 1988, both nationally and internationally. Between 2000 and 20004 she held various appointments at the University of East Anglia in Norwich: as Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow, Creative Writing Fellow, and tutor on the BA and MA in Writing.
She has been a guest tutor on other British MAs in writing at the University of Sussex, Bath Spa University College, and Birkbeck College London; as well as being a speaker at a number of University conferences, for example The RLF Creative Writing Conference at the University of Warwick; the Oxford Conference of Contemporary Writing; the Perm Conference of Contemporary British Writing and others at Sheffield Hallam and Middlesex University.
Internationally, Jill has twice taught for the University of Chicago; Amherst College, Massachusetts (British Council Writing Fellowship in l997); Smith College, Amherst; World Fellowship Centre in New Hampshire; Byron Bay festival, Australia; the British council conference, Berne, Switzerland; Ubud writers festival, Bali; and the National University of Singapore.
She is a long-standing tutor for the Arvon foundation where she has taught each year for the last twelve years.
Community projects include tutoring for Centerprise in East London, the City Lit, Mary Ward centre, Old Ford Women Writerís Group, Spread the Word Literature Project, Brixton, Cheltenham Literature festival, the Sunday Times Oxford Literature Festival, Pembroke College Summer Schools, many schools groups, and others.
Currently she is an advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and director of Gold Dust, a mentoring scheme for new writers, as well as Board member of the Norwich New Writing Partnership in Norwich.
