From work exploring the relationship between journalism and public health, economic inequality in India and cultivating resilience and hope, these grants for work in progress ‘couldn’t have come at a better time’ for 78 writers.
Almost a third of our membership now has a local group in their area – with new groups set up across England, Wales, Scotland and Germany over the last year.
Announcing the shortlist for the 2021 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography – four books that “exemplify the art of studying people’s lives close up”.
A statement from the Translators Association and the Society of Authors.
World of Books Group, the UK’s largest retailer of used books, have partnered with the Society of Authors to launch a new grant to support writers as they work on books of any genre that have the power to inspire progressive behaviour change.
Actor, writer and director awarded £3,000 for best original script by a writer new to radio, at the 2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Christopher Douglas takes the Tinniswood Award for best original audio drama script for ‘Tristram Shandy: In Development.’
Five comics creators have joined the Steering Committee for the SoA’s Comics Creators Network alongside founders Hannah Berry and Woodrow Phoenix.
We welcome the Chancellor’s £400 million boost for the arts, but the Budget fails to do ‘whatever it takes’ to help self-employed authors and creative professionals who have fallen through the gaps in Government support over the last 12 months.
UK writers’ unions the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), backed by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), have joined forces to research the allegedly exploitative practices of some publishers that charge authors to publish their work. This follows a sharp rise in complaints from authors about these companies received by both unions.
The first 2021 round of our Authors in the Health Crisis survey is now open.
We have written to the Competition & Markets Authority and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy expressing concerns about the proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of US publisher Simon & Schuster by German conglomerate, Bertelsmann, which owns Penguin Random House.
Individuals supported by the Fund in 2020 can now reapply, as we take stock of how the SoA can continue to support authors through the health crisis in 2021.
