Artistic Director: Port Townsend Writers Conference
Listed on 2026-10-09
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Creative Arts/Media
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Centrum employees can’t beat a work site that is set in the middle of beaches, hiking trails, and a plethora of wildlife right outside your door.
Open Job Postings Artistic Director:Port Townsend Writers Conference
About the Port Townsend Writers Conference
Since 1974, the Port Townsend Writers Conference has brought together aspiring and master artists to talk about craft, ignite creativity, connect learners and mentors, and build community.
The Conference includes a week of generative, craft-centered workshops, lectures, readings, open mics, and communal gatherings in an environment designed to de-privilege and diversify the literary art form and serve a multitude of voices from across nations. Whether you consider yourself a beginning or seasoned writer, our approach as one the most longstanding gatherings of writers in the American West is to provide an inspiring and inclusive space free of judgement and full of respect: where writers can share their perspectives, celebrate growth, take creative risks, and support and see each other as writer-peers.
Based at Fort Worden State Park on the Olympic Peninsula in Port Townsend, Washington, the experience provides many opportunities and moments of reflection on sandy shores and forested trails overlooking the Salish Sea, as well as space to get inspired and make friends who understand and support the human and writing journey.
The OpportunityCentrum envisions a future where anyone from anywhere can nurture their creativity in an environment that is supportive, challenging and uplifting – building a world of greater connection and inclusion through the arts. Through the Port Townsend Writers Conference, the Artistic Director is vital to this realization. They are leaders and practicing artists in writing, publishing, and teaching. They work collaboratively with Centrum’s Program Manager for Writing, helping to set the overall artistic tone for the Writers Conference by playing a vital part in stewarding the Conference’s culture of community.
They select faculty, recruit fellows for the Conference’s fellowship program, and they are a voice during the Conference, emceeing evening faculty readings, which are open to participants and the regional public.
Contracts for Artistic Directors are negotiated for up to five years, subject to annual review.
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