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’.
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.
48 authors have received a financial grant to support their ongoing writing projects, worth more than £185,000 in total.
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.
Decision to appoint three new SoA Council members ratified at the union’s AGM on 19 November 2020
Thirty-five translations from six languages: announcing the six shortlists for the 2020 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
Five books on shortlist for UK’s only award for creative educational writing
We signed an open letter this week.
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…
The SoA joins call to the Chancellor to fix ‘flawed programme of support’ for self employed workers
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.
SoA partners with Creative Scotland to distribute £600k in hardship grants to authors in Scotland.
