Deadline: Sunday 5 October 2025

British Educational Suppliers Association, Publishers Association and the Society of Authors statement

The rise of AI has ushered in a whole new level of scams, about which we are receiving many enquiries.

Update on the US class action

Voting is underway for four available seats on the SoA board

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” 

The Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the Association of Illustrators and the Society of Authors are pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 National Survey of Comics Creators.

The Society of Authors in Scotland (SoAiS) is deeply disappointed to hear of the closure of the Scottish Book Trust’s Ignite Fellowship. The Fellowship’s loss also underlines the worrying trend of the clear decline of funding for arts and culture across Scotland.

Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues this week.

Lifetime SoA Fellow 1938-2025