Each year we are thrilled to be able to support a number of writers with their works in progress through grants from the Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust. This year is no exception – with over 70 authors awarded nearly £185,000 this month, helping them with research costs and giving them valuable time to focus on their latest writing projects.
Audible has agreed to exclude works owned or licensed by some US publishers from its new ‘Captions’ feature while copyright issues are resolved.
We’re encouraging authors to down tools and step away from their writing and illustrating desks to venture outside during 19-23 August as part of this year’s Summer Challenge.
The Society of Authors’ Awards 2020 are now open for entries – with 7 awards spanning fiction, poetry, non-fiction and, for the first time, illustrated children’s books.
September marks the 40th anniversary of the introduction of Public Lending Right (PLR) in the UK.
The Society of Authors is often contacted by members asking for advice on attending literary festivals in countries with poor human rights records.
19 July 2019 The SoA welcomes the RSL report which recommends more effective support for authors from all backgrounds at every stage of their careers, with findings that confirm our own research. The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has published a report of findings from its A Room of My Own survey, which asked over 2,000 writers what it takes to nurture an environment that offers the freedom and opportunity ‘to make a life in writing possible for writers…
We have now received 8 nominations for the four vacancies on our Management Committee, so there will be an election in September 2019. Full Members will receive their ballot papers– and the candidate statements – in the autumn issue of The Author.
The Society of Authors is accepting entries to the inaugural round of a new award, celebrating the writers and illustrators of ‘quirky’ illustrated books for children ages 0-7.
The Society of Authors has written to the two candidates to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, urging them to support authors and the wider creative industries.
A celebration of inclusivity and ‘the power of story’ as 70-year old debut novelist Anne Youngson joins Rathbones Folio Prize winning poet Raymond Antrobus, Romany writer Damian Le Bas and Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist Nadifa Mohamed in share of Society of Authors’ £100,000 ‘night of riches’.
How do you make a living from poetry? How do short story writers make any money at all? We discussed all this and more in our week-long dedication to poetry and short fiction as part of celebrations around the 2019 Society of Authors’ Awards, taking place on Monday 17 June.
