We also attend and speak at various industry events. We have active partnerships /events with the following:
Organisations | |
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Abergavenny Festival | All Stories |
Belfast Book Festival | British Centre for Literary Translation |
Bristal New Writing Festival | Bristol Translates |
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival | Cartoon Museum |
Creative Future | Crime Writers Conference |
Dragonmeet | Harrogate Crime Writing Festival |
Isle of Wight Literary Festival | Jericho Writers |
Literature Wales | Literature Works |
London Book Fair | Megaphone CIC |
Mothers Who Write | National Centre for Writing |
National Creative Writing Industry Day | New Writing North |
New Writing South | Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild |
Out of the Wings | Oxford Centre for Life Writing |
Publishing Scotland | Romantic Novelists Association |
Scottish Book Trust | Spread the Word The Self-Publishing Conference |
The Writing Sphere | Wiltons Music Hall |
WriteNow, PRH | Writing East Midlands |
Writing West Midlands | Writers & Artists |
Various Creative Writing University courses |
What can we offer?
- A year’s free or discounted membership for authors involved in your programme.
- An advisory session delivered by an expert skilled in-house contracts advisor at the SoA. Our usual session covers information on making the most of your SoA membership as well as the basics of being a professional author such as copyright, types of publishing, contracts and negotiation, agents, and making a living. We are open to catering these to a particular topic or for a particular type of writer.
- Participation/attendance at your of events such as festivals, conferences, networking sessions etc.
- Promotion of your organisation or initiative throughout our member newsletters and on our website.
*Industry commitment to inclusivity among creators, audiences and industry professionals is essential for building a strong creative economy and ensuring that the benefits of cultural participation are shared by all. We are proactively seeking opportunities to work with less-established universities and programmes/schemes for underrepresented writers, in line with the SoA’s overall strategy on inclusivity. If this is you, please do not hesitate to be in touch
What can you expect ?
Previous Feedback:
“Thank you so much for such a wonderful and informative session! We really appreciate your time and your expertise. I’ve no doubt the participants will feel extremely encouraged and confident on their next steps in their writing journeys.”
Sarah France, Programme Manager A Writing Chance, New Writing North
Can I say much better than my already high expectations? Pitched at exactly the right level, going into depth on the important points of contracts and copyright and making that information readily
accessible. It was all fascinating and really useful. Perfe ct intro for debut authors. I wasn’t aware of the full scope of the SoA’s work. Learning about the podcast and advisory clinic was super useful.
Attendee of New Writing North New Writers Award session
“It was a pleasure to hear your talk, which was informative and pitched exactly right for the audience. I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that we all learned a lot from it.”
Andrew Biswell, Manchester Met Uni
You were an absolute joy to work with, and you gave me renewed enthusiasm and confidence for my chosen career – so much so, that I joined the SOA again. I wrote them an email especially to say that it was down to you and that you are a fabulous ambassador for the society!
Tabitha Rayne, author and panellist at SoA event at LBF Writer’s Summit
“Thanks so much for taking part in the Abergavenny Writing Festival and giving such an interesting and informative session.”
Lucie Parkin, Abergavenny Writing Festival
“I just wanted to say thank you so much for Saturday. Your content was pitched just right for the group,
and your whole talk was so interesting, just the right balance of interesting anecdotes about past cases, useful information and warnings!”
Dr Alice Little, Oxford Centre for Life -Writing
“Thank you SO much for last week – the writers absolutely loved it; I’ve had several emails and I attended a writers’ retreat last weekend with some of our award winners, and they were all singing your praises.
Huge thanks.”Emily Wright, Programme Assistant, New Writing North
“Just getting in touch to say a huge thank you for last night’s session – it was so informative and engaging.
So brilliant to find out all that SoA can offer writers. We really appreciate your taking the time, as do our awardees. Fingers crossed they’re all sorting their membership asap!”
Eilidh Akilade, Scottish Book Trust
“Definitely going to join the union now! It’s like learning the secrets of the trade, that nobody normally tells you about. So useful.”
Attendee of MA Queens Belfast sessi
Our Terms and Conditions:
Our speaking terms and conditions are sent to each external organisation we work with and are as follows unless mutually agreed otherwise :
We are happy for you to record this event for internal purposes only. You (including any attendees/delegates) are permitted to view our material for up to one year from the date of recording and must obtain our permission before sharing it externally. The SoA will also have the right to use the recording for internal purposes if requested.
The SoA reserves all other rights in any material we share during the event.
If you have a budget for participation fees, we request that this is instead donated to The Society of Authors Access Fund , which offers authors support for travel, subsistence, childcare or access needs for events, residencies, and retreats. We thank you in advance for any donation you are able to contribute, and will send an invoice for this donation at your instruction.
Please note that the SoA is not insured to give legal advice and all information presented and advice given as part of this event should not be construed as such.
Who should you contact?
If you are interested in partnering with the SoA, or having us speak at an event, or would just like some more information on how we c an support you, please email outreach@societyofauthors.org with as much information as possible.
Other resources to share with your writers:
We have an excellent programme of online events, many are free to everyone.
• You can keep an eye on and RSVP to all upcoming events on our website.
• And catch-up all our previous events on our Vimeo channel.
We have an advisory podcast freely available to everyone. You can listen and subscribe to The SoA
Advisory Clinic by searching “SoA Sounds” wherever you get your podcasts. All members can contact our advisory team for bespoke, confidential, free advice and contract vetting, and access our many guides. We can give limited, general advice to queries from non-members, though our replies may take longer.
The SoA grants administer prizes to celebrate authors of all genres at every stage of their careers, as well as supporting works in progress and authors in financial difficulty .