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.
We call on the next Government to support Britain’s cultural heart: with funding and legislation, with transparency and ambition.
19 November 2019 The Society of Authors is supporting the British Library Board’s proposed recommendation that the Public Lending Right (PLR) rate per loan for the scheme year 2018-2019 is increased from 8.52 pence to 9.03 pence per loan, ahead of the spending review. The British Library Board – who are responsible for administering the…
The Society of Authors and the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2019 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award, the UK’s only award for educational writing which stimulates and enhances the learning experience.
Abie Longstaff, Joanne Harris (re-elected), Simon Cann and Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin have been elected to join the SoA’s Management Committee after the AGM on 21 November when Carol Lee, Joanne Harris (who has been re-elected for a further three years), Charles Palliser and Celia Rees complete their three-year terms. Earlier this year members were invited…
