[13][14][15] In July 2016 Jarrett-Macauley was appointed chair of the Caine Prize board of trustees,[16][17][18] stepping down in April 2019, when her successor was named as Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

[25] Jarrett-Macauley has also edited Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard in Contemporary Britain (June 2016), with contributors who include Eldred Durosimi Jones, Jatinder Verma, Naseem Khan, Dawn Monique Williams, Michael Pearce, Lynette Goddard, Varsha Panjwani, Jami Rogers, Michael McMillan, Iqbal Khan, Diane Allison-Mitchell, Pat Cumper, Sita Thomas, and Terri Power.

Margaret Busby referred to it in The Sunday Times as "compelling", with other appreciative feedback coming from Stewart Brown of the University of Birmingham ("thoroughly researched and well documented"), Caroline Benn ("An excellent biography"), John Thieme of the University of Hull ("A work of sustained and original scholarship"), Hakim Adi ("Delia Jarrett-Macauley has done a great service"), Kevin Le Gendre for the Independent on Sunday ("genuinely inspiring"), Sheila Rowbotham ("a scholarly work, deftly written"), while Stuart Hall praised it as "a significant contribution to the work of historical memory".

[30] Jarrett-Macauley's 2005 novel takes as its subject matter the conflict in Sierra Leone, drawing imaginatively on "both the European canon and African oral traditions to illuminate the sufferings of child soldiers and their families".

"[31][32] In the Guardian, Ali Smith commented on "the considered and multi-layered story of a Sierra Leone family blasted apart by one of its children turning boy soldier in the civil war.

It is a novel remarkable for its slowed, measured pulse and its calm analysis, its keenness to promise hope and rehabilitation even after the worst", and Maya Jaggi wrote : "Seven years ago Delia Jarrett-Macauley published The Life of Una Marson 1906-65, a landmark biography of the Jamaican feminist who became the BBC's first black programme maker.

In 2006 she made the Radio 4 feature Imaginary Homeland, for which she returned to Sierra Leone after 30 years, and the programme "interweaves her memories and her fiction with the real struggle to rebuild the place known as Salone".

She voiced Warrior Marks, Alice Walker's documentary film, which was shown on UK television (based on the 1993 book of the same title about female genital mutilation).