We got it wrong
We have taken the difficult decision to postpone next week’s TA @ Home Festival.
Four members join SoA’s Children’s Writers and Illustrators committee
Ian Billings, A M Dassu, Chitra Soundar and Isabel Thomas will represent children’s fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, audio drama, educational books and more on the Group’s committee.
SoA, Guild and ALLI Statement on Audible and ACX Updated Terms
Since October 2020, when a technical glitch revealed irregularities in accounting for ACX authors at Audible, the Authors Guild, the Society of Authors, and the Alliance of Independent Authors, with the support of a group of independently published authors, have been engaged in a collaborative campaign to improve authors terms and conditions on the platform.
Winner of 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is awarded to Kay Heikkinen for her translation of the novel Velvet by Huzama Habayeb, published by Hoopoe Fiction.
Update on Government Covid-19 support schemes
The third round of support under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is still open. Members must apply before Friday 29 January 2021.
The SoA View on the Brexit deal
While the deal offers a starting point, too much is unclear and the end of Freedom of Movement will create a complex and costly challenge for creative freelancers.
2020 – the year we did not ask for
A bitter-sweet short walk through 2020 – with Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Inua Ellams, Daljit Nagra, Tracy Chevalier, Dapo Adeola, Hannah Berry and more.
The SoA View on what comes next
Some of the key themes and issues we will be working on in 2021 – from author incomes and statutory support, to Brexit, contractual transparency and industry inequalities.
Black History Matters by Robin Walker wins 2020 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award
The winner of the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award is Robin Walker’s ‘Black History Matters: The Story of Black History, From African Kingdoms to Black Lives Matter’.
‘All to play for’ following Government spending review
The SoA will continue to lobby for its Six-Point Plan following the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak MP, on 25 November.
Society of Authors awards £185,000 in grants for work in progress
48 authors have received a financial grant to support their ongoing writing projects, worth more than £185,000 in total.
The SoA View: ‘Palpable nonsense’ from Audible
We have partnered with the Authors’ Guild of America, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and many indy writers, to condemn Amazon’s audiobook wing for its opaque returns and exchange policy.