**Project illustrator wanted**
Design brief: Who are we looking for?
Someone to create a cover image and book design for: 1) our new anthology of Speculative Nature Writing; and 2) three essay pamphlets of contemporary nature writing by new authors of colour. The two projects are quite different and we may employ two different artists, or just one but with two different design ideas. In both cases, you would work with the UEA Publishing Project who are publishing the books.
Ideally, we would like to work with someone who has experience of, or interest in, design and illustration of some of the following subjects:
- Landscape
- Animals
- Plants
- Place
- Weather
- Water (rivers, ponds, the sea)
We are open to all mediums of illustration including photography. All levels of experience are welcome to apply.
Details: Speculative Nature Writing Anthology
What might the nature writing of the future sound like? The anthology collects together a range of different writers and their explorations of possible futures. We aim to avoid extreme dystopian and utopian visions, instead opening up more complex, unnerving, ambiguous, and provocative questions about value, meaning, identity, and sustainability that we face in a changing world.
The anthology consists of an introduction, approximately a dozen short pieces of creative writing (including essays, fiction, poems, and prose-poetry) and a small collection of teaching/writing resources.
The elements that we would like you to design (number and scope to be agreed by discussion) would include:
- Cover design
- Frontispiece
- Chapter headings
- An image for publicity/press release
Details: Three essay pamphlets of contemporary nature writing by new authors of colour
These pamphlets will be published in collaboration with The Willowherb Review, the UK’s first journal of nature writing for authors of colour. The aim is that each of these pamphlets will offer an essay of between 3,000-5,000 words in length. We hope that they will be engaged with fresh ways of thinking about landscape, wildlife and nature writing as a genre.
The elements that we would like you to design (number and scope to be agreed by discussion) would include:
- Cover design
- Frontispiece
- Page design including chapter header and text partitions
- An image for publicity/press release
Payment
Speculative Nature Writing Anthology: £300.
Three essay pamphlets: £700.
What we need from you
Please email the following to Dr Hetty Saunders at Hetty.Saunders@uea.ac.uk by end of day of 21/11/2022:
- A brief expression of interest (no more than 300 words) (why you’re interested in the project, why you think your work is right for the project, and how you would approach the design brief)
- 5-10 page portfolio
- CV
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Hetty.Saunders@uea.ac.uk.
This anthology is part of the UKRI-funded project, ‘Speculative Nature Writing: Feeling for the Future’ based in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.