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.
Raymond Briggs, Cressida Cowell and David Donachie join the SoA Council
Decision to appoint three new SoA Council members ratified at the union’s AGM on 19 November 2020
‘Mind expanding’, ‘timeless and timely’ announcing the 2020 Translation Prizes shortlists
Thirty-five translations from six languages: announcing the six shortlists for the 2020 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
Shortlist for ALCS Educational Writers’ Award 2020: ‘Celebrating diversity and inspiring change’
Five books on shortlist for UK’s only award for creative educational writing
The SoA View: On asking to be named
We signed an open letter this week.
Koomson, Rooney, Skea and Womack elected to Society of Authors’ board
Members of the SoA have elected Dorothy Koomson, Anne Rooney, Margaret Skea and Philip Womack to join the union’s Management Committee. They will join the board after the organisation’s 2020 AGM on 19 November, when Ferdinand Dennis, former Chair David Donachie, Mary Hoffman and Philip Womack (who has been re-elected for a further term) complete their three-year…
Unions demand commitment and action from Government to support creative industries and its workers
The SoA joins call to the Chancellor to fix ‘flawed programme of support’ for self employed workers
How would you improve copyright and piracy claims?
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) wants to hear from you to try to improve its systems – and your responses will help us in lobbying for change.