Authors campaign for more sustainable publishing
New SoA campaign Tree to Me encourages authors to get to grips with the environmental impact of their books and challenge industry to reduce it
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Great School Libraries release report into unequal futures
Write to your local MP so that every child can have access to a school library and librarian
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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
