The SoA entered its current five-year strategy period in November 2025, which runs until November 2030. To ensure we are serving and supporting SoA members to the best of our ability we’re conducting a series of listening sessions to hear from you.

These sessions provide an additional channel of communication and connection with SoA members and enables us to hear directly from you about your professional issues or concerns. We want to hear about the issues affecting you as an author.

A reminder of what we do:

Our vision: that all authors can sustain a living income on fair terms, whilst retaining control over their work and career.

Our mission: as a special register trade union, we exist to promote, protect and campaign on the business of authorship. For our members, we exist to:

Support

Organise

Advocate

We work to fulfil our mission by being:

Member-focused: members are at the heart of everything we do. As a passionate and dedicated team, we are proactive and add value by supporting, collaborating with and advocating for our members.

Authoritative: we share our expert knowledge and speak out for the profession. We stay informed about the issues affecting authors.

Supportive: we help members and collaborate with colleagues in order to achieve our shared mission and goals.

Inclusive: we promote and encourage diversity in its broadest sense. We work to ensure that all voices are listened to and represented fairly.