A community of poets, performers, artists and creative activists (Poets for the Planet) will host a day of climate-themed poetry, in collaboration with the SoA, featuring Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry winner Imtiaz Dharker.
Collins Learning editor Jenni Hall praised for her meticulous attention to detail and her approachability, professionalism and efficiency.
Writers Katie Hims and Ian Martin join James Tait Black Memorial prize winner Tanika Gupta MBE on the shortlist for the 2020 Tinniswood Award, designed to recognise the best audio drama script of the year.
Awarding the best original script by a writer new to radio, this year’s shortlistees for the 2020 Imison Award include rapper and beatboxer Testament, South African author Colette Victor and poet and pub singer Vicky Foster.
Congratulations to SoA Council member Rose Tremain and SoA member Dreda Say Mitchell who have been recognised for their services to literature in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List, as well as SoA member Frances Mensah Williams – recognised for her services to the African community in the UK and Africa and appointed CBE. SoA…
Join our new bi-monthly Twitter book club – #DeadGoodLit – celebrating a selection of our favourite titles from the expansive stable of books belonging to our various literary estates.
Following the Conservative Party’s landslide election victory, we respond with a look at some of the challenges ahead.
Our final 2019 round of grants will support the work of a range of exciting authors, from poetry and fiction to biography and non-fiction.
British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus has been named winner of the 2019 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award for his critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning debut The Perseverance.
The winner of the 2019 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award is Alastair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers: The Incredible Expeditions of 20 Explorers, illustrated by Kevin Ward – described as an ‘enthralling’ and ‘visually captivating’ book containing remarkable stories of the intrepid journeys undertaken by Humphreys’ explorer heroes.
Thirty-five translations from nine languages: announcing the seven shortlists for the 2019 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
We welcome the introduction of the first steering committee for the Society of Authors in Wales (SoAiW) to expand the role and reach of the group by representing and supporting Welsh writers, illustrators and literary translators at all stages of their careers.
