Long-awaited but vague – the SoA view on the government’s artificial intelligence white paper
A paper based on guiding principles, but lacking specifics, shows how far we are from practical AI regulation
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Internet Archive: ‘timely victory for authors and publishers’
Open Library’s ‘controlled digital lending’ is not fair use, court rules
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Society of Authors to launch publishing advice podcast
‘The Society of Authors Advisory Clinic’ releases its first episode on Monday 3 April
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Children’s Laureate of Wales wins Imison Award
Winner announced by Nick Imison at the BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony
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Tom Benn wins the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
A ‘propulsive’ novel that powerfully examines region, class and race
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MP tables motion for zero-rate VAT on audiobooks
Sir Mike Penning MP submits an Early Day Motion and asks our members to write to their own MPs about the tax on audiobooks
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Remembering Philip Ziegler
Former Management Committee Chair and lifetime SoA Fellow – 1929-2023
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What’s the T? by Juno Dawson, illustrated by Soofiya, wins the UK’s sole award for creative educational writing
‘With a powerful charge of optimism and lived experience, it is witty and funny without being flippant, and practical without being dull’
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The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award announces shortlist
Celebrating four writers ‘who have set themselves free of publishing conventions’
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Catch up with the 2022 Translation Prizes
If you missed the 2022 Translation Prizes award ceremony, you can watch the live stream, find out the winners and see photographs from the event at The British Library here
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New report calls for literary freelancers to be valued with fair and prompt payment
Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS) has published a research report on the worrying state of the literary freelance workforce in Scotland today that is sending them to a financial precipice
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Marta Dziurosz’s ‘truly astounding’ translation from Polish wins TA First Prize
Marta Dziurosz and editors Željka Marošević and Sophie Missing take the 2022 prize for a translation of Marcin Wicha’s Things I Didn’t Throw Out.
