Why should you join the SoA Management Committee?
The past couple of years have seen unprecedented change and challenge for the Society of Authors.
Academic study on diversity urges publishing to ‘reflect’, ‘challenge’ and ‘change’
We welcome the publication of the UK’s first academic study on diversity in trade fiction and publishing. Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing throws down a broad set of critical challenges to industry, and could not have come at a more apt time.
SoA joins industry-wide submission to Commons COVID-19 inquiry
SoA and eight other organisations representing over 330,000 members table joint evidence to DCMS Select Committee on the historic challenges facing the cultural and creative industries.
Winners of the 2020 Society of Authors’ Awards
Drag performer and screenwriter Amrou Al-Kadhi, playwright Inua Ellams, ‘Son of the Hebrides’ Donald S. Murray and illustrator Elena Arevalo Melville among Society of Authors’ Awards 2020 winners in a celebration of literature’s power to challenge inequality.
#BlackLivesMatter – a statement of support
A statement of support for Black authors and members of the Black community, from the SoA staff and Management Committee
Second poll confirms most authors will be hard hit by COVID-19
The Society of Authors’ second real-time survey confirms extent of impact of COVID-19 on authors’ income and wellbeing as implications for daily life and publishing industry continue to emerge.
Nominations open for SoA Management Committee elections
We warmly invite Society of Authors members to stand, or to propose fellow members to stand, for election to the Management Committee. Any full member (not associate member) is eligible.
2020 SoA Awards shortlists – celebrating the inclusive power of the written word
Inclusive power of the written word celebrated as TV news presenter George Alagiah, and Costa Award winner Sally Gardner share Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists with ‘Banksy of Poetry’ Brian Bilston and poet and activist Ani Kayode Somtochukwu.
SoA tables evidence to Commons committees on COVID-19 impact
The Society of Authors has submitted detailed written evidence to the House of Commons Select Committees for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Reading Tax scrapped seven months early: SoA welcomes Treasury move
VAT on digital publications is zero rated from today in government move to boost the books industry.
SoA joins call to shut unlawful ‘National Emergency Library’ now
The Society of Authors has joined the Authors Guild – the SoA’s sister union in the US – in calling for Internet Archive’s so-called ‘National Emergency Library’ to be taken offline.
March impact analysis: cancellations, income loss and uncertainty in first month of lockdown
The SoA has released results of a point-in-time assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on authors’ livelihoods.