Join former media PA Susanna Scouller as she leads this Feel Good Friday session with author Sarah Waters, covering the Alexander Technique and showing you how this technique can be beneficial for you as a writer.
Join us online this November for our 2025 Annual General Meeting hosted via Zoom. The AGM is conducted online to allow access to as many members as possible.
Join us for a pre-AGM online social for SoA members to informally chat with fellow members, SoA staff, and Committee members. Whilst we can’t promise drinks and nibbles, we’ll make every effort to ensure you meet new people and have meaningful conversations.
Join the US attorneys Jallé H. Dafa and Michael Adamsonin conversation with SoA General Counsel Keith Ashby. They will discuss the background to the U.S. action; the route by which settlement terms were reached; practical considerations for U.K. authorsand the possible implications for other actions which are being brought in the U.S. against AI companies. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.
Join us for week of activities focused on Author Care. We kick off with our #SoAatHome Big Conversation, chaired by SoA’s Chief Executive, Anna Ganley. She is joined by Author Vaseem Khan, Canongate Communications Director Anna Frame, and Literary Agent Caro Clarke. They will discuss their experiences of successful working relationships in publishing and the challenges that authors still face.
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone else in the sector to work together more effectively. We’ll hear from publishing director Hannah Knowles, literary agent Caro Clarke, author Polly Atkin and Ama Badu about their experiences and hopes for how the form can be implemented. This event will be chaired by ADCI founder Claire Wade.
Join the Translators Association (TA) for their end of year review and online social. Find out what the committee has been doing this year and look ahead to 2026, Meet the committee informally and hang out and chat with other TA members.
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 meet the committee and other fellow comic creators.
Join Olivia Chapman as she leads this 90-minute online workshop teaching you the practical ways to talk about your work, and pitch it to agents, editors, and producers.
Join children’s author Alice Hemming for an interactive workshop on finding inspiration for your next picture book idea.
Grab a cuppa and get to know crime writer, Vaseem Khan. Vaseem will be in conversation with crime writer, Abir Mukherjee to discuss his work and career and to offer a glimpse into his creative routines.
As part of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group’s Autumn focus on ‘Working in Poetry’, this industry panel chaired by Rishi Dastidar with Laurie Bolger, Stephanie Conn and Belinda Zhawi will dive into the different ways that poets and performers can sustain themselves across their careers.
Join Anna Caig as she leads this session, focusing on using a few channels well, rather than spreading yourself too thinly. This is often the best route to marketing success, as well as avoiding burnout or overwhelm.
Join the SoA Cymru Group for their end of year review and online social. Find out what the committee has been doing this year and look ahead to 2026, Meet the committee informally and spend time meeting and talking to other Cymru members.
Join children’s author Alice Hemming for an interactive workshop on finding inspiration for your next picture book idea.
Grab a cuppa and get to know translators Ruth Marton and Charlotte Collins. Ruth and Charlotte will be in conversation with SoA’s Translators Association Chair, Ian Giles to discuss their work and career, and to offer a glimpse into their creative routines.
This talk hosted by financial planners, Lewis Paterson and Matthew Roche is specifically for writers, authors and other creatives and is designed to answer these key questions.
Join Head of Rights and Licensing at Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS), Amy Ellis as she leads this session on covering a basic introduction to when you need to seek permission, when you don’t, and some top tips for how to clear permissions easily from publishers and other rights holders.
This event is the second out of three sessions, hosted by chartered financial planner, Lewis Paterson. These sessions will cover the basics of pensions and ways to better your preparation for retirement.
Grab a cuppa and get to know author, Nydia Hetherington. Nydia will be in conversation with Claire Wade to discuss her work and career and to offer a glimpse into his creative routine.
