The UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators.

12,500 members strong.

Empowering authors since 1884.

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Lifetime SoA Fellow 1937-2025
The Society of Authors has announced the shortlists for the nine prizes to be awarded at the 2025 Translation Prizes ceremony.
The appointment of four new SoA Fellows was ratified at our AGM on 20 November 2025.

2024 SoA Awards and Summer Party

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Celebrating the winners of over £140,000 in prizes for fiction, non-fiction and poetry – 20 June 2024.

ADCI Literary Prize  |  ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award  |  Betty Trask Prize & Awards  |  Cholmondeley Awards  |  Eric Gregory Awards  |  McKitterick Prize  |  Paul Torday Memorial Prize  |  Queen’s Knickers Award  |  Somerset Maugham Awards  |  Volcano Prize  |  Travelling Scholarships