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SUMMARY:SoA Community Hub | Underrepresented Writers Networks launch and coffee morning
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person for the launch of the SoA’s LGBTQ+\, Writers of Colour and Working-Class Writers networks. This is the inaugural in-person networking event to celebrate the launch of these new\, member-led sessions as part of our community hub programme. Come along and get to know your fellow authors! This is a free event with tea\, coffee\, fruit and biscuits for all. \nThis morning event is hosted by the SoA’s Local Groups Manager\, Elsa Woodmeade\, Head of Events and Engagement\, Sophia A Jackson and Office Manager\, Andy Lapham and all are welcome. It takes place at the SoA’s office on Bedford Row\, London. Places are limited so please register below and let us know of any access or dietary requirements. \nThis event is free to SoA Members. Not a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n11am – Refreshments and networking\n\n\n11.30am – Welcome and introductions from SoA’s Local Groups manager\, Elsa Woodmeade\, Head of Events and Engagement\, Sophia A Jackson and Office Manager\, Andy Lapham\n\n\n12.30pm – Closes \n\n  \nAbout Underrepresented Writers Networks\nThe Underrepresented Writers Networks are a set of informal\, member-led groups hosting online networking sessions for authors who are underrepresented in the publishing industry. We currently have 3 networks: Writers of Colour\, Working Class Writers and LGBTQ+ Writers. \nTo join any of the networks and hear about any upcoming meetings\, please contact membership@societyofauthors.org. \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n  \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/soa-community-hub-underrepresented-writers-networks-launch-and-coffee-morning/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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SUMMARY:SoA Community Hub | Boxing class with Roy Summers
DESCRIPTION:Join us this October for a boxing class as part of our Community Hub on Bedford Row\, hosted by boxing coach and personal trainer\, Roy Summers. \nThis session will be approximately 60 minutes of light exercise based around learning some boxing skills\, fitness and fun boxing-based games. Suitable for all levels of fitness and abilities as session content is tailored to who we have in the room. \nJust bring yourselves! All equipment will be provided\, just wear gym gear/comfortable workout clothing and trainers! \n  \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. \nNot a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n1.30pm – Event starts | Refreshments on arrival\n2pm – Boxing session starts\n3pm – Boxing session ends\n\n  \nThe Line up\nRoy Summers\nRoy Summers is a Level 3 England boxing coach\, Coach Educator for England boxing\, personal trainer\, exercise for Parkinson’s instructor and coach for several outreach organisations – bringing boxing into local communities. \nInstagram: @boxingcoachroy \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n  \nTickets \nSoA Members – £14.50 \nNon-Members – £24.50 \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/soa-community-hub-boxing-class-with-roy-summers/
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SUMMARY:SoA Community Hub | Shut Up & Write! ®
DESCRIPTION:Join us this November for a writing focused Community Hub event at our London office on Bedford Row. \nAmaia Robertson Nogues from Shut Up & Write! ®\, will facilitate a morning of writing. Shut Up & Write! ® is a nonprofit that brings writers together to build consistency\, beat procrastination\, and finally make progress on their projects. \nWhether you’re writing a novel\, finishing a dissertation\, or tackling daily creative work\, our free in-person and online writing sessions connect you with a global network of writers who show up\, write\, and succeed. \nThis event is structured around a silent writing period\, so remember to bring headphones if you’d like to minimise background noise. \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. \nThis event is free to SoA Members. Not a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n10am – Event starts | Refreshments on arrival\n\n\n10.30am – Welcome and introductions from SoA\n\n\n10.35am –Welcome from Amaia Robertson Nogues. Writing workshop begins\n\n\n12.30pm – Close\n\n  \nThe Line up\nAmaia Robertson Nogues\nAmaia is a Community Manager at Shut Up & Write!\, a global community hosting writing groups in over 80 countries. Her work focuses on fostering creative communities through accessible writing sessions. With a research background at the University of Cambridge\, she also works with academic writing groups to support researcher wellbeing in higher education. \n  \nAbout Shut Up & Write\nShut Up & Write!® is a free\, global community of writing groups built around showing up to write. Come for the accountability\, stay for the community. No critique. No read-alouds. Just focused writing time\, alongside others. \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n  \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/soa-community-hub-shut-up-write/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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SUMMARY:SoA Community Hub | Finding your way into writing
DESCRIPTION:How do you get yourself from not-writing to writing? The transition often feels tricky\, and always deserves attention and care. \nIn this in-person workshop\, hosted by SoA member and writer Emily Troscianko\, we’ll explore ways of crossing the threshold into writing—approaches suited to waking up and getting going in the morning\, but also useful at other times of day and when facing procrastination\, perfectionism\, uncertainty\, distraction\, interruption\, or dread at any point in a project. \nThe session is suitable for writers at any stage and across genres. You’ll test out mini rituals that may support focus\, energy\, and other ingredients crucial to writing\, before designing personal versions that fit your own writing life and projects—and your own instincts about what types of ritual are truly valuable. You’ll also have a chance to get a little bit of focused writing done in the company of other writers.  \nDr Emily Troscianko draws on her experience as a writer\, researcher and coach\, including many years of designing and running writing workshops at the University of Oxford and elsewhere. \n  \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. \nThis event is £9.50 for SoA Members | £19.50 for Non-Members  \nNot a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n10.45am – Event starts | Refreshments on arrival\n11am – Welcome and introductions\n11.05am – Workshop hosted by Emily Troscianko\n12pm – Comfort break (10 mins)\n12.10pm – Workshop resumes\n12.30pm – Workshop ends\n\n  \nThe Line up\nEmily Troscianko\nEmily is a writer\, researcher\, and coach. She helps individuals navigate career change and recovery and build work-life habits that feel meaningful and alive. She runs the independent imprint Tamarisk Books and publishes in academic journals and experimental life-writing. Recent books include a consciousness textbook\, an ethics-tested recovery memoir\, and a children’s story about selfishness. \nWebsite: https://troscianko.com \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n  \nTickets \nSoA Members – £9.50 \nNon-Members – £19.50 \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/soa-community-hub-finding-your-way-into-writing/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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