Andy Lapham
Andy joined the Society of Authors in May 2026, and is looking forward to managing the offices at Bedford Row and getting more involved in the day to day activities of the SoA.
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Hope Norman
Hope joined the SoA in 2025 as Membership and Local Groups Administrator and supports the management of member services and local groups activities.
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Alice Davis
Alice joined the SoA in November 2025. She works as part of the Communications team to promote and campaign on authors’ interests and to raise the SoA’s profile, influence, and visibility.
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Rusheda Rahman
Rusheda joined the SoA in 2025, running payroll for the organisation and supporting with HR tasks.
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Lindsay Bennett Ford
Lindsay Ford joined the organisation in September 2025. She leads on parliamentary and government engagement. Lindsay previously held policy, public affairs, and communications roles across the third sector and creative industries.
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Jolyon Leavesley
Jolyon joined the Society of Authors in 2025 and works within the Operations team, supporting the smooth running of our day-to-day activities. In addition to his front-of-house responsibilities, Jolyon helps in administering and coordinating our Author Communities (Groups & Networks).
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Emma Cheshire
Emma joined the SoA in February 2025 as a Senior Publishing Contracts Advisor, advising members on contracts and issues.
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Rose Hensher
Rose joined the SoA in September 2025 and helps to manage all of the SoA’s grants, prizes, and awards.
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Emma Boniwell
Emma rejoined the Society of Authors in 2024 as Head of Membership and Author Communities. She leads the Member Services team and works on the strategic development of membership recruitment, volunteer management, development of all author communities and membership benefits. She is also covering the Outreach role in 2025. She is the coordinator of the Society…
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Elsa Woodmeade
Coordinates the SoA’s local groups (around 50x), helping to publicise and administer their events and activities. Elsa also supports the wider Membership team in with ad-hoc tasks or periods of leave.
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Keith Ashby
Keith joined SoA in 2024 as our Legal Counsel.
