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Emma Cheshire of the SoA offers some advice on how to identify, and approach, the best people to represent your work. This article was first published in The Author (Autumn 2026 - vol 137.3)
The Society of Authors is proud to announce that a prize encouraging greater positive representation of disability in literature has re-opened for submissions.
A new resource to support and empower authors and schools to deliver impactful in-person school visits.
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