Health and wellbeing
Resources to help you look after yourself, especially when you’re working intensively or alone, or when financial or other pressures are getting too much
Bereavement
Practical and emotional resources to help you deal with loss
Your finances
Financial challenges can present themselves at any stages of your career. Here are some practical resources to help no matter what your level of income.
Career help
We’re here to support you throughout your career, with advice, guidance and more
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If you are in urgent need of help there are a variety of support options available
The SoA Advisory Clinic: The What, Why and How of Contracts: Publishing agreements and how to negotiate them
Learn how to navigate contracts with the SoA Advisory Clinic!
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Can’t pay won’t pay: a guide to chasing payment
A procedural episode from the Advisory Clinic on how to chase payments as a creative.
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Whose life (story) is it anyway? A guide for writers taking subjects and inspiration from real life
The Advisory Clinic discusses inspiration, personal privacy and much more in this episode!
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Advisory Clinic Theatre Special: Page to Stage (via Wilton’s Music Hall)
Learn about commissions and adaptations in the world of theatre!
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Your character, Your rights: A look at the law relating to copyright in literary characters
The SoA Advisory Clinic discuss copyright.
The SoA Advisory Clinic: How to Get a Badass Deal? Live from the London Book Fair 2023
Live from London Book Fair 2023, the advisory clinic discusses all that encompasses book deals!
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Tree to Me Campaign: My Books Shouldn’t Cost the Earth with Piers Torday
Learn about the SoA’s sustainability campaign!