05 April 2018 Shortlist announced for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2018 This year’s shortlist features five historical biographies.
28 March 2018 New base in Bloomsbury from 2019 will ‘usher in a new era for the Society of Authors’ The SoA has exchanged contracts on current and new properties, with plans to move in March 2019.
28 March 2018 Government agrees Creative Industries Sector Deal We welcome a clear understanding of the key role played by the creative industries and concrete proposals to support them.
23 March 2018 Elections to the Management Committee You are warmly invited to stand, or to propose fellow members stand, for election to the Management Committee.
19 March 2018 Shortlist announced for EFG Short Story Award 2018 marks the first time the international prize has had an all-American shortlist.
08 March 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlist The Women’s Prize for Fiction has celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing the 2018 longlist.
06 March 2018 SoA calls for greater financial transparency from publishers on authors’ earnings Writing in The Bookseller, CEO Nicola Solomon challenges trade publishers to adopt a fairer approach.
01 March 2018 "A thing of vast complexity and power" - announcing the winners of the 2017 Translation Prizes Bela Shayevich’s ‘wonderfully rich’ translation of Second-Hand Time wins the inaugural TA First Translation Prize. The prize was one of seven awarded tonight at the annual...
20 February 2018 SoA now represented on national and international lobbying boards Chief Executive Nicola Solomon elected to Creative Industries Federation council and International Authors’ Forum steering committee.
11 February 2018 American and women writers dominate the longlist for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2018 Longlist announced for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2018.
08 February 2018 SoA urges HMRC to protect authors’ exemption from withholding tax We have responded to a government consultation to ask that authors be taken into account when updating tax legislation.
26 January 2018 Audio Drama Awards 2018: The Winners Usden, Woods & Finnemore recognised in Imison and Tinniswood Awards.
17 January 2018 Diverse shortlist announced for inaugural TA First Translation Prize A graphic novel is among six books translated from five languages on the inaugural TA First Translation Prize shortlist.
17 January 2018 Want to get your book in bookshops? The Booksellers Association has published a new guide to help authors encourage bookshops to stock their work.
10 January 2018 Robin Moger wins the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize The Book of Safety has been awarded this year’s Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for translation from Arabic.
09 January 2018 Developments on libel reform in Scotland Draft bill aims to update Scottish laws on defamation.
04 January 2018 Audio Drama Awards 2018: thematically diverse Imison & Tinniswood shortlists announced Topics tackled by shortlisted scripts in this year's Imison and Tinniswood Awards include colonialism, Jewish divorce and a chilling vision of a near future Britain.