VOTE NOW for your chosen candidate to sit on the SoA Board

Ballots have now been dispatched, and this is your chance, as a member, to influence the strategic direction of the SoA’s work. Voting will close on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, with newly elected board members taking their seats after the 2025 AGM in November.

You can see the full list of nominees, their bios and their statements here.

The UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators.

12,500 members strong.

Empowering authors since 1884.

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2024 SoA Awards and Summer Party

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Celebrating the winners of over £140,000 in prizes for fiction, non-fiction and poetry – 20 June 2024.

ADCI Literary Prize  |  ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award  |  Betty Trask Prize & Awards  |  Cholmondeley Awards  |  Eric Gregory Awards  |  McKitterick Prize  |  Paul Torday Memorial Prize  |  Queen’s Knickers Award  |  Somerset Maugham Awards  |  Volcano Prize  |  Travelling Scholarships

The Society of Authors’ Awards 2025 – Winner Announcement

Event hosted by Helen Epega with a keynote from Joseph Coelho
The SoA Awards will be streamed live from Southwark Cathedral from 6.55pm

18 June 2025 - 9AM BST

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The ADCI Literary Prize | The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award | The Betty Trask Prize
The Cholmondeley Awards | The Eric Gregory Awards | The McKitterick Prize
The Queen’s Knickers Award | The Somerset Maugham Awards
The Travelling Scholarships | The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize