Join the Writers of Essex to discuss sensitivity readers and editors with Ruth Loten.
Join Jason Smith in this introductory course, where you will be guided through the essential aspects of digital marketing, from creating a compelling online presence to leveraging social media.
Join members of the Comics Creators Network (CCN) Steering Committee at our next all networking meeting. This is a chance for current SoA Members (or those of you that maybe wish to join us in the future) to meeting the committee and other fellow comic creators.
Come and update your headshot at the SoA offices on Bedford Row.
Join the Oxfordshire group for a collaborative morning writing session.
Join the Manchester Group for their next meet-up to submissions and proposals to agents and publishers.
Join author, Robert John as he leads this engaging and creative workshop where you will explore the fun of visual expression.
Come along for a joint Belfast and Derry meet-up to get to know authors from all over Northern Ireland.
Join Novelists in London for an informal chat, networking and information sharing session.
Come and meet the team, chat to our advisors and Management Committee, and find out what we're campaigning for this year.
Come along to hear from photographer John Walmsley about his experience producing zines.
Join the North Wales Group for an introduction to the National Library of Wales and its collections with Manon Foster Wallace.
An informal coffee morning to come together and work on our various projects.
Join the Bath Group for a talk from founder Nicola Beauman on Persephone Books and the history of 20th century publishing.
In this session, experienced author, teacher and actor Jo Cotterill will lead you through the jargon of primary and secondary school structures and explain how to create an event that inspires and excites while still being within your comfort zone.
Join the West Midlands Group for a chat and a catch-up at their next meeting.
An informal social for authors in the East Midlands to connect and share advice.
Executive publishing editor, Adam Strange, shares his decade of editing experience at Little Brown, highlighting the commercial pressures of a big-5 publishing house and how authors can help themselves with their own editorial focus.
Come along to meet fellow children's authors and illustrators at the next meet-up of this new group!
Join the Cambridge Group for their next in person get-together for translators in the Cambridge area.
Join the South East London Group for their next informal social meet-up.
Join us for our Spring SoA Lates for the chance to meet and mingle with SoA staff and fellow members.
Grab a cuppa and get to know author and winner of the SoA’s 2024 ADCI Literary Prize, Lorraine Wilson. Lorraine will be in conversation with Penny Batchelor to discuss her work and career and to offer a glimpse into her creative routine.
Join the Gloucestershire Group to discuss the usage and benefits of Substack for authors.
Join confidence and mindset coach, Kelly Weekes as she leads this session focusing on time management with your writing and helping you build consistency with your writing practices.
Thinking of different ways to build on your complex character? Join author, Maame Blue as she leads this session and teaches you how to create dishonest narratives using dialogue, character dysfunction and internal tension.
Join the Hampshire Group to discuss editing your work with award-winning author Claire Fuller.
Join the Salisbury and Wiltshire Group for their next social meet-up.
Join the Bristol Group for a chat about publishing and some general catch-up.
Find out what the Poetry and Spoken Word Group have been doing over the last year at our annual general meeting. Our chair Katrina Naomi will read a short report from the PSWG committee.
Join us for a panel discussion with Lucy Macnab (Chair), Jack Underwood, Malika Booker and Eric Ngalle Charles who will be discussing poetry and spoken word competitions and awards.
Join the Eastbourne, Lewes, and Seaford Group for a 'writers' surgery' to discuss any problems that might have come up in our writing lives.
Come along for an informal meeting to network, chat and share ideas.
Come and find out about a newly launched coaching service developed specifically for writers with certified coach and author, Tom Harvey, senior executive coach NLP master practitioner, Phil Hayes, and Pippa Gough, a senior executive coach and poet.
Join the West Midlands Group to hear from Lucy Andrews on her journey to geeting an agent.
Join the South Buckinghamshire Group to discuss the potential benefits of using AI for research.
Join the Tufnell Park Group for a meet-up to discuss working with a developmental editor with Hetty Saunders and James Opie.
Join the Oxfordshire group for a collaborative morning writing session.
Stand with us this Thursday, 3 April at 1.30pm. Millions of books have allegedly been stolen by the #MetaBookThieves and used without permission or compensation to create a digital monster that threatens the future of every writer in the UK.
Join us this April for Society of Authors in Scotland AGM hosted via zoom. Find out what your committee has campaigned on and achieved over the last year and welcome your new committee members.
Join the Manchester Group for their next meet-up to discuss query letters.
Join the Monmouth Group for an excursion to Abergavenny Writing Festival.
