Shortlist announced for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2018
The Society of Authors is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.
New base in Bloomsbury from 2019 will ‘usher in a new era for the Society of Authors’
The SoA has exchanged contracts on current and new properties, with plans to move in March 2019.
Government agrees Creative Industries Sector Deal
We were pleased with the overall message conveyed in the report and appreciate the understanding on display of the vital role our creative industries play in the national economy. The Report says that the creative industries are ‘at the heart of the nation’s competitive advantage’.
Elections to the Management Committee
You are warmly invited to stand, or to propose fellow members stand, for election to the Management Committee.
Shortlist announced for EFG Short Story Award
This year’s Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award shortlist includes six Americans, five of them women, making it the first time the international prize has had an all-American shortlist and only the second time that women have featured so heavily on the list.
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlist
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing the 2018 longlist. Now in its twenty-third year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. This year’s judges are Sarah Sands (Chair), Anita Anand, Katie Brand, Catherine Mayer and Imogen Stubbs. The 16…
SoA calls for greater financial transparency from publishers on authors’ earnings
Writing in The Bookseller, CEO Nicola Solomon challenges trade publishers to adopt a fairer approach.
Handling the trolls
David Hooper on the legal ramifications of both offering and receiving harsh reviews
“A thing of vast complexity and power” – announcing the winners of the 2017 Translation Prizes
The 2017 Translation Prizes were awarded tonight at the British Library, and winners were announced for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, the Goethe-Institut Award, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán, the Vondel Prize and the inaugural TA First Translation Prize.
SoA now represented on national and international lobbying boards
Our Chief Executive, Nicola Solomon, has been elected to the council of the Creative Industries Federation (CIF), as well as to the steering committee of the International Authors’ Forum (IAF).
American and women writers dominate the longlist for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2018
This year’s longlist includes ten women, nine American writers and four British authors.
SoA urges HMRC to protect authors’ exemption from withholding tax
8 February 2018 The government is planning to broaden the circumstances in which certain payments – such as royalties – made to non-UK residents are liable for income tax. A consultation on the subject is running until 23 February. HMRC has commented that the legislation is primarily aimed at groups of companies rather than individual…