The Society of Authors holds a renowned and important role in advocating for rights of authors everywhere and at all stages of their career. But what do its policy and public affairs efforts look like in practice?
Collecting societies play a crucial and celebrated role for authors, both through licensing works at scale and ensuring creators receive their fair share, but also through advocacy for authors’ rights and support through charitable funding. But how do so-called collective management organisations actually work in practice and what does an author need to know?
Actress, director and writer in conversation with Lucinda Hawksley
Actor and writer Ben Crystal in conversation with Rhona Snelling
Practical event led by author Jeevani Charika
What does the landscape for works in translation look like and what role does the Translators Association play? What of the challenges and what of the campaigns? What do translators need to know and how can the Society of Authors help?
Panel discussion on alternative publication processes for educational books
Join communications specialist Anna Caig as she leads this session on equipping yourself with tools and techniques to embrace your individuality in your marketing
Literary festivals and live speaking events play a unique, important, and celebrated role in an author’s career, offering writers a chance to supplement their book writing income, raise their literary profile and develop their community. But what of the business side to the arrangement?
Join SoA Advisory Clinic hosts Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones as they bring you another catch to enjoy an event originally presented as part of the SoA@Home Festival of online events on the topic of poetry and spoken word at festivals.
SoA advisors Johanna Clarke, Catherine Fuller, Theo Jones and Ambre Morvan enter stage left to return to the world of Cassie and her novel “Burnt Honey”, the translation and film rights to which they sold in earlier sessions, reprising their roles and introducing some new ones to open the curtain on adapting Cassie’s book for stage
Learn how to write a character that readers will love to hate!
