Editing Andrew Motion (section)

===Post-laureateship===
Motion is chairman of the Arts Council of England's literature panel (appointed 1996) and is also a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref Name= "AM"/> In 2003, he became professor of creative writing at [[Royal Holloway]], [[University of London]].<ref>[http://www.rhul.ac.uk/english/studying/Postgraduate-Study/MA/CreativeWriting.htm Royal Holloway University site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609174350/http://www.rhul.ac.uk/english/studying/Postgraduate-Study/MA/CreativeWriting.htm |date=9 June 2010 }}. Accessed 2010-08-17</ref> Since July 2009, Motion has been Chairman of the [[Museums, Libraries and Archives Council]] (MLA) appointed by the [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]].<ref Name= "AM"/><ref>[http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/5237.aspx "Andrew Motion appointed new Chair of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council"], Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 3 July 2008. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214233100/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/5237.aspx|date=14 February 2009}}</ref> He is also a vice-president of the [[Friends of the British Library]], a charity which provides funding support to the [[British Library]].<ref name="ar0607">{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/supportus/pdf/friendsannrep0607.pdf|title=Friends of the British Library Annual Report 2006/07| access-date=7 September 2009}}</ref> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours list.<ref Name= "AM"/> He has been a member of [[English Heritage]]'s Blue Plaques Panel since 2008.

Motion was selected as jury chair for the [[Man Booker Prize]] 2010<ref>[http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/judges "Man Booker 2010 judges"], The Man Booker Prizes, 9 December 2009. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103002735/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/judges|date=3 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=59090 |date=13 June 2009 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8097237.stm|title=BBC News|date=12 June 2009|access-date=12 October 2014}}</ref> and in March 2010, he announced that he was working with publishers [[Jonathan Cape]] on a sequel to [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Treasure Island]]''. Entitled ''Silver'', the story is set a generation on from the original book and was published in March 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8588371.stm|title=Sir Andrew Motion to write Treasure Island sequel |date=26 March 2010|work=BBC News|access-date=26 March 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100329135349/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8588371.stm| archive-date= 29 March 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> In July 2010, Motion returned to [[Kingston-upon-Hull]] for the annual ''Humber Mouth'' literature festival and taking part in the [[Larkin 25]] festival commemorating the 25th anniversary of [[Philip Larkin]]'s death. In his capacity as Larkin's biographer and as a former lecturer in English at the [[University of Hull]], Motion named an [[East Yorkshire Motor Services]] bus ''Philip Larkin''.<ref>''Yorkshire Evening Post'' 6 July 2010 [http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Buses-are-fare-way-to.6403079.jp "Buses are fare way to celebrate city poet"] (Retrieved 7 July 2010)</ref><ref>[http://www.larkin25.co.uk/news.php Larkin 25. 7 July 2010. ''Welcome aboard the Philip Larkin bus!'' ](Retrieved 12 July 2010)</ref> Motion's debut play ''[[Incoming (play)|Incoming]]'', about the war in Afghanistan, premièred at the High Tides Festival in [[Halesworth]], Suffolk, in May 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/8335508/Andrew-Motion-to-debut-as-playwright-with-work-about-Afghanistan.html |title=Andrew Motion to debut as playwright with work about Afghanistan - Telegraph |first=Roya |last=Nikkhah |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 February 2010 |location=[[London, UK|London]] |issn=0307-1235 |oclc=49632006}}</ref> Motion also featured in ''[[Jamie's Dream School]]'' in 2011 as the poetry teacher.

In June 2012, he became the President of the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]]. In March 2014, he was elected an Honorary Fellow at [[Homerton College, Cambridge]].

Motion won the 2015 [[Ted Hughes Award]] for new work in poetry for the radio programme ''Coming Home''. The production featured poetry by Motion based on recordings he made of British soldiers returning from the wars in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Mark|last=Brown|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/02/andrew-motion-wins-ted-hughes-award-poetry-returning-soldiers |title=Andrew Motion wins Ted Hughes award for poetry work about returning soldiers|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

In 2017, Motion moved to [[Baltimore, Maryland]], to take up a post at the [[Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars|Writing Seminars]] as a Homewood Professor of the Arts at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2016/01/11/andrew-motion|title= British poet Andrew Motion settles into life in America as a professor at Johns Hopkins|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|first=Bret |last=McCabe|date=11 January 2015|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref>