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SUMMARY:SoA Community Hub | Underrepresented Writers Networks launch and coffee morning
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person for the launch of the SoA’s LGBTQ+\, Writers of Colour and Working-Class Writers networks. This is the inaugural in-person networking event to celebrate the launch of these new\, member-led sessions as part of our community hub programme. Come along and get to know your fellow authors! This is a free event with tea\, coffee\, fruit and biscuits for all. \nThis morning event is hosted by the SoA’s Local Groups Manager\, Elsa Woodmeade\, Head of Events and Engagement\, Sophia A Jackson and Office Manager\, Andy Lapham and all are welcome. It takes place at the SoA’s office on Bedford Row\, London. Places are limited so please register below and let us know of any access or dietary requirements. \nThis event is free to SoA Members. Not a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n11am – Refreshments and networking\n\n\n11.30am – Welcome and introductions from SoA’s Local Groups manager\, Elsa Woodmeade\, Head of Events and Engagement\, Sophia A Jackson and Office Manager\, Andy Lapham\n\n\n12.30pm – Closes \n\n  \nAbout Underrepresented Writers Networks\nThe Underrepresented Writers Networks are a set of informal\, member-led groups hosting online networking sessions for authors who are underrepresented in the publishing industry. We currently have 3 networks: Writers of Colour\, Working Class Writers and LGBTQ+ Writers. \nTo join any of the networks and hear about any upcoming meetings\, please contact membership@societyofauthors.org. \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n  \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW\n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												SoA Fundraising Bookshop\n					\n					Browse our virtual Bookshop.org store featuring books by authors and speakers taking part in our events programme. When you make a purchase using our affiliate links\, a percentage will go to the Society of Authors’ Access Fund\, giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreats.
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LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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SUMMARY:Scriptwriters Group Lates - How to work with a dramaturg
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person industry insider panel discussion and social hosted by our Scriptwriters Group (SWG). Catch up with fellow scriptwriter members and chat with the SoA staff team. This Scriptwriters Group Lates will include a discussion on how to work with a dramaturg\, hosted by SWG chair Rhiannon Tise with panellists Juliet Gilkes Romero\, Oladipo Agboluaje and Neil Grutchfield. \nThe panel will offer advice on working closely with a dramaturg and how to make the experience and relationship work for you and how you might want to tailor discussions to suit the individual needs of your script. There will be plenty of time for you to put specific questions to the panel.  \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. Please note that there will be limited seating at this event.  \nIn Person: SoA Lates events – £9.50 for SoA Members | £19.50 for Non-Members  \nNot a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n6pm – Event starts – welcome drinks\, nibbles and networking\n6.30pm – 7.15pm – Welcome and introductions from SWG Chair\, Rhiannon Tise followed by a panel discussion on ‘How to work with a dramaturg’ with panellists Juliet Gilkes Romero\, Oladipo Agboluaje and Neil Grutchfield.\n7.15pm – drinks\, nibbles and networking\n8pm – Event close\n\n  \nThe Line-up\nRhiannon Tise\nRhiannon Tise is an award-winning writer for theatre\, radio and television. Her original dramas and adaptations have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. Her first radio drama The Waltzer won the Richard Imison Award\, and recent adaptions include Louise May Alcott’s Little Women and George Eliot’s The Mill on The Floss\, which won the VLV Drama Award for Best Radio Drama. Her short story Byres Road was recently broadcast on Radio 4\, produced by Sweettalk Productions and read by Sharon Small. Rhiannon is a consultant Fellow and mentor for the Royal Literary Fund.  She is currently chair of the Society of Authors Scriptwriting committee. \nInstagram: @rhiannon_tisewriter | LinkedIn : rhiannon-tise \n  \nJuliet Gilkes Romero\nJuliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning writer for stage and screen.  She was Writer in Residence at the National Theatre 2022/2023 attached to the New Works Department. \nJuliet is the recipient of the Alfred Fagon award for Best New Play 2020\, the Roland Rees Bursary 2019\, named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award\, the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Best Play Award 2009 and the BBC World Service Alexander Onassis Research Bursary. \nHer plays include; The Gift\, a retelling of Medea filmed for Jermyn Street Theatre’s 15 Heroines of Greek Tragedy season 2020\, The Whip performed at the RSC’s Swan Theatre 2020\, Day of The Living performed at The Other Place as part of RSC’s Mischief Festival 2018\, Upper Cut at the Southwark Playhouse 2015\, At The Gates of Gaza\, Birmingham Repertory Theatre & tour\, winner of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Best Play Award 2009. \nScreen and audio include – Soon Gone; A Windrush Chronicle co-produced by Sir Lenny Henry’s production company Douglas Road and the Young Vic Theatre\, and One Hot Summer broadcast on BBC Radio 4. \nJuliet has an MA in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College\, London University. She is currently an MA Writing for Performance associate lecturer. Juliet is a Trustee at HighTide theatre and the Film & Television Charity. \nWebsite: Juliet Gilkes Romero | Instagram: @JulietGilkesRomero  \n  \nOladipo Agboluaje\nOladipo Agboluaje was the 2018/19 writer-in-residence at the National Theatre. He is a former fellow of the Royal Literature Fund and the International Research Centre\, Berlin. He is the treasurer of the African Theatre Association. He has served on the boards of Soho Theatre and Brixton House. He has lectured in African Theatre and Creative Writing at several universities. He is course director of the Black British Theatre and Performance programme at the British American Drama Academy. \nPlays include: Early Morning\, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane\, Immune\, Crown of Blood \nUzo Aduba is making her National Theatre debut in The Adeyemis – A Family Saga by Oladipo Agboluaje. More details in the National Theatre’s Coming up in 2027 blog post. \n  \nNeil Grutchfield\nNeil Grutchfield is the New Writing Manager at Synergy Theatre Project where he works with prisoner and ex-prisoner playwrights as well as professional writers writing about criminal justice.  \nA freelance dramaturg for over 20 years Neil has worked with emerging\, mid-career and senior playwrights on their plays at all stages of development. \nRecent dramaturgical credits include Ordinary Decent Criminal by Ed Edwards (Paines Plough) and The Boy by Joakim Daun (Soho). For Synergy: Lifers by Evan Placey (Southwark Playhouse) and Providers by Ambreen Razia (Brixton House). \nWebsite: www.neilgrutchfield.com \n  \n  \nAbout the Scriptwriters Group (SWG)\nThe Scriptwriters Group (SWG) is a community of scriptwriters and broadcasters. It represents writers and makers across digital\, broadcast\, AV and theatre. \nWe support members and associates by providing professional\, individual advice\, negotiating collective minimum terms agreements with organisations such the BBC\, and lobby on policy and legislation to promote the interests and protect the rights of scriptwriters. \nIn addition\, we manage a series of seminars\, panel discussions and ‘in conversation’ style events throughout the year\, on matters of concern and interest to members working across these industry sectors. We also publish interviews and develop resources for publication on the SoA website and via our quarterly journal\, The Author. \nThe Group is made up of an elected committee and the Group Chair is Rhiannon Tise. Whilst the committee directs the work of the group\, the day-to-day administration is handled by Co-Administrators Sophia Jackson and Theo Jones. Contact either Sophia or Theo with any scriptwriting-related topics\, concerns or suggestions that you might wish to raise with the committee. \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW\n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												SoA Fundraising Bookshop\n					\n					Browse our virtual Bookshop.org store featuring books by authors and speakers taking part in our events programme. When you make a purchase using our affiliate links\, a percentage will go to the Society of Authors’ Access Fund\, giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreats.
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/scriptwriters-group-lates-how-to-work-with-a-dramaturg/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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SUMMARY:Translators Association Lates - hosted by Ruth Martin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person event hosted by our Translators Association (TA). Catch up with fellow members\, chat with the SoA staff team\, and hear from our special guest\, translator Ruth Martin. Ruth will share her insights on how to talk about translations to different audiences such as podcasts\, radio interviews or giving a talk in a bookshop. \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. Please note that there will be limited seating at this event.  \n  \nIn Person: SoA Lates events – £9.50 for SoA Members | £19.50 for Non-Members  \nNot a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n6pm – Event starts\n\n\n6.30pm – Welcome and introductions from TA Chair\, Ian Giles\, followed by a short talk from Ruth Martin and the opportunity to ask questions [20 minutes] \n\n\n8pm – Event ends\n\n  \nThe Line-up\nRuth Martin\nRuth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction and non-fiction books since 2010\, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann and Shida Bazyar. Together with Charlotte Collins\, she won the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation\, for Nino Haratischwili’s epic novel The Eighth Life. Ruth has taught at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school. She is a former co-chair of the Translators Association. \nHer translation of Shida Bazyar’s The Nights are Quiet in Tehran was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize. \nBluesky: @dances-with-voles.bsky.social \n  \nAbout the Translators Association (TA)\nThe Translators Association (TA) provides a source of expert advice for individual literary translators and is also a collective voice representing the profession as a whole. Translators automatically become a member of the TA on joining the SoA. \nThe TA is run by a committee of 8 members and coordinated by Catherine Fuller and Ambre Morvan. Catherine and Ambre are also members of the SoA Contracts Advisory team \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												The Society of Authors’ Access Fund - donate now\n					\n					Giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreatsEvery contribution helps us ensure that these needs and costs aren’t barriers to authors wishing to access events. If you are in a position to help\, please donate via the link below. If you are an author facing access issues\, please click here to see if we can help. DONATE NOW\n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												SoA Fundraising Bookshop\n					\n					Browse our virtual Bookshop.org store featuring books by authors and speakers taking part in our events programme. When you make a purchase using our affiliate links\, a percentage will go to the Society of Authors’ Access Fund\, giving authors support for travel\, subsistence\, childcare or access needs for events\, residencies\, and retreats.
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/translators-association-lates-hosted-by-ruth-martin/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Spoken Word Group Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of live poetry as we celebrate our first ever Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic event. \nOur performer tickets are now sold out\, but attendee tickets are still avaialble. Come along and enjoy a fun and relaxed night of poetry and performance. \nNot a member? Sign up here. \n  \nProgramme\n\n6.30pm – Guest arrivals\, refreshments on arrival\n6.40pm – Welcome and performance from Keith Jarrett\n6.50pm – 8 performances (30 mins)\n7.20pm – Refreshment break\n7.40pm – 8 performances (30 mins)\n8.10pm – Closing comments from Keith Jarrett \n8.15pm – Networking & refreshments\n8.30pm – Ends\n\n  \nThe Line up\nKeith Jarrett – Host \nKeith Jarrett’s poetry\, fiction and essays have been widely anthologised. A multiple slam champion\, he was selected for the International Literary Showcase as an outstanding LGBT writer. Keith teaches at NYU London and holds a PhD from Birkbeck. His poetry collection Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied is a PBS Spring Recommendation.   \n  \nEvan John – Performer\nEvan L John writes poems and short stories in his spare time. His poetry focuses on faith and nature\, and particularly the persistence of faith in the face of doubt. \n  \nA.K Davidson – Performer\nA.K. Davidson’s poetry has been published in Good Housekeeping\, Pennine Platform and other magazines. Her debut collection Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions is available from all good bookshops. Find her work in progress on Instagram\, @mondayispoetry. \nWebsite: therightword.co.uk \n  \nJeff Probst – Performer\nJeff Probst\, a Californian\, saw many of his poems\, including ‘Fear of Folkdancing’\, published in America in the Eighties. He moved to the UK in 1990; his Nineties memoir is ‘Teaching Shakespeare to Hairdressers: An American Teacher in London’. His novels include ‘When the Moon was White‘ and ‘Bachelor Butterflies’. \n  \nDr Miranda Anderson – Performer\nDr Miranda Anderson is a philosopher of mind and of the arts and humanities\, a literary scholar\, a historian\, an art curator\, and now a poet. Her first published poetry will appear in a special issue of The Philosopher (Spring 2027) on The Weaponized Earth.  Her book\, The Renaissance Extended Mind\,  explores current and Renaissance ideas of the mind as not just brain-bound but as extended across brain\, body and world and through imaginative flights. She edited four volumes on ideas about the mind between antiquity and the twentieth century and curated The Extended Mind a contemporary art exhibition with Talbot Rice Gallery (2019-20). She has performed a one-woman show for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas during Edinburgh Festival (2018\, 2022). She is working on her first poetry collection which is inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s claim that to write a single poem it is necessary to have many\, many experiences till they are forgotten and then to patiently await their return when they have become translated ‘into our very blood\, into glance and gesture’. She is available to review films\, art and culture. \nEmail: miranda.anderson@ed.ac.uk \n  \nFlorence Chukwuonye– Performer\nFlorence Njideka Chukwuonye is a Nigerian author\, poet\, performer\, and English teacher based in the UK. Her debut anthology\, Tranquillity in Turbulence\, showcases poems of conviction and quiet strength – poems that insist that in turbulence\, tranquillity can be chosen. She writers to inspire reflection\, nurture imagination\, and affirm human values. \nInstagram: @florencechukwuonye22  | Website: www.florencechukwuonye.com | LinkedIn: florence-chukwuonye \n  \nLiz Kendall – Performer\nLiz Kendall’s poetry is rooted in nature\, wildness\, and connection. She co-authored the award-winning book Meet Us and Eat Us: Food plants from around the world and runs Creative Relaxation poetry workshops in Surrey. Publications include The Black Cat Poetry Press\, Candlestick Press\, and Mslexia. Her website is theedgeofthewoods.uk. \n  \nRósalín Callaghan – Performer\nRósalín Callaghan lives in Derry with rescue cats Beannacht and Réaltaín\, and hereditary amyloidosis\, a rare genetic condition. Founder of Amyloidosis Ireland\, her poetry has appeared widely\, with award-shortlisted and slam successes. A former barrister\, she spends her time writing\, neglecting housework\, killing houseplants\, and pursuing reluctant feline affection. \n  \nHilary Davies – Performer\nHilary Davies’ fifth collection\, Compass Light\, appeared from Renard Press in autumn 2025. She is a former Chairman of the Poetry Society\, and has been an RLF Fellow at King’s College\, London and the British Library. She is a  Hawthornden Fellow and Fellow of the Temenos Academy. \n  \nJenny Mitchell – Performer\nJenny Mitchell has three collections: Her Lost Language was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; Map of A Plantation won the Poetry Book Awards and is a university set text. Resurrection of a Black Man contains three prize-winning poems. She is a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star. \n  \nJasmina Bolfek-Radovani – Performer\nJasmina Bolfek-Radovani is a London-based poet and interdisciplinary artist of mixed cultural heritage (Croatian/Algerian/French). Her poetry in English\, French and Croatian has been published in the UK\, Canada and Croatia. Jasmina’s collaborative poetry project “Unbound” received funding from the AHRC-funded Language Acts and Worldmaking Small grants programme in 2018 & 2019. She has (co-)directed several multilingual poetry recitals and live performances in the UK\, France\, and Croatia\, and she has given talks\, written essays\, and facilitated panels on multilingual poetry practice. She is currently studying Arabic calligraphy and the Arabic script as part of her latest familial history project. Website: \nWebsite: https://jasminabradovani.com \n  \nRichard Adams – Performer\nRichard F Adams writes poems built from scenes rather than arguments — chip shops\, train platforms\, hospital corridors\, Barnsley backyards and Weybridge suburbs. His debut\, Not Yet\, runs from a Yorkshire childhood to the day he watched himself die. It includes a critical edition of Kubla Khan set in Tesco Express. \nHe is a working artist\, building an AI anti therapist\, a former senior academic/principal/senior fellow/visiting prof/founder/charity chair as well as interactive TV pioneer\, game programmer\, business partner and more. He is writing a book on emergent post-human aesthetics and radical creativity through next gen AI. By day he’s Head of technical architecture in rail. \n  \nLucy Coats – Performer\nLucy Coats’s poetry encompasses nature\, war\, grief\, mythology\, queerness\, and the effects of patriarchy on women. In 2024 she was shortlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize\, and in 2022 won the Latin Programme Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection is out on submission\, and she is currently writing about matriarchal goddesses. \n  \nJanice Whyne – Performer\nJanice Whyne – Jamaican heritage\, London-based poet and community development practitioner. Explores identity and social justice; two-time runner-up at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Poetry Slam. Publications include The Caribbean Writer\, Volume 39\, Part 1 (2025)\, Her Locks Unveiled… (2023)\, and two collections: In Conversation (2022) and Say It with a Haiku (2024). \nInstagram: @jjsmuse | Facebook: JJ’s Muse \n  \nApril Winstock – Performer\nAs a Speech and Language Therapist\, April spent years helping others to communicate. At 70 she began writing CNF. Now 73\, April writes spontaneous\, often funny poems for strangers\, on public transport\, cafés\, parks. She loves performing at open mics\, believing in their power to foster community\, connection and conversation. \n  \nRishika Williams – Performer\nI am a poet\, performer and cultural producer working across two central strands. The first is long-form and performance poetry addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG)\, drawn from lived experience of abduction and sexual violence. The second is Sindhi heritage: Language\, Partition\, Displacement / Loss of homeland. I explore this through poetry\, performance and community work. Both my families left Hyderabad\, Sindh\, around Partition. Alongside my writing I produce participatory South Asian literary and heritage events under Sindh Arts UK\, and I am studying for an MA at the Poetry School. \nInstagram: @rishikathepoet \nSimon Maddrell – Performer\nSimon Maddrell is a writer\, editor & educator. His debut\, lamping wild rabbits from Out-Spoken Press\, is Highly Commended in the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. Since 2020\, he’s had seven pamphlets published and appeared in Gutter\, Magma\, Poetry Wales\, The London Magazine\, Stand\, The Rialto\, and others. \nWebsite: www.simonmaddrell.com | Instagram: @simonmaddrell | Facebook: @simonmaddrellpoetry | LinkedIn: simonmaddrell | Bluesky: simonmaddrell.bsky.social \n  \nAccessibility\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance. \nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org \n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nTickets \n£9.50 for SoA Members \n£19.50 for Non-Members \n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. 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SUMMARY:Educational Writers Group Lates - hosted by Tony Bradman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person event hosted by our Educational Writers Group (EWG). Catch up with fellow members\, chat with the SoA staff team\, and hear from our special guest\, author\, Tony Bradman who will be sharing insights into his creative process. \nPlaces are limited and subject to availability. Please note that there will be limited seating at this event.  \n  \nSoA in Person: SoA Lates events – £9.50 for SoA Members | £19.50 for Non-Members  \nNot a member? sign up here with our special #SoAatHome offer and get 20% off for the first year using the offer code: SOAATHOME20. \n  \nProgramme\n\n6pm – Event starts\n\n\n6.30pm – Welcome and introductions from EWG Chair\, Rhona Snelling. \n\n\n6.35pm – Tony Bradman will speak about his craft\, take questions and give a short reading.\n\n\n8pm – Event ends\n\n  \nThe Line-up\nTony Bradman\nTony Bradman is an award-winning writer of children’s books. He has written poetry\, picture books and stories for all ages\, including historical fiction set in a wide range of periods. He has worked extensively in educational books for children as an editor and as a writer. He was Lead Author of Project X\, a major reading scheme from OUP\, and also editor of Hachette’s Astros\, a graded reading scheme for children with literacy problems. He has edited many anthologies\, has been active in authors’ organisations – he was Chair of the SoA’s Children’s Writers and illustrators Group (CWIG) Chair of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) between 2016 and 2022\, and Co-Chair of The Copyright Licensing Agency at the same time\, and also Chair of the Siobhan Dowd Trust. He was made a Fellow of the Historical Association in 2022\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024\, and lives in south London. \nInstagram: @tony.bradman \n  \nAbout the Educational Writers Group\nEducational Writers Group (EWG) is a professional network for SoA members who produce educational materials for all settings including schools\, higher education and academic institutions\, and the English Language Teaching sector. The group welcomes emerging career authors who are interested in producing educational materials in the future as well as established authors.   \nThe group is run by an elected committee of volunteers with expertise in different areas. For all inquiries about the group\, please email co-ordinator Tilly Zeeman. Not a member of the SoA yet? Sign up today using the discount code EWG20. \n  \nAccessibility\n\nOur Events space is located on the ground floor of our office. We have a wheelchair ramp at the side entrance of the building. We also have an accessible toilet by the side entrance.\nIf you have any access requirements\, please email events@societyofauthors.org\n\n  \nFeeling unwell?\nWe recommend the following: \n\nStaying home if you’re feeling unwell or have flu-like symptoms\nWashing your hands when coming in from the outdoors and / or before touching your face\nApplying alcohol hand sanitiser (we will have these on site)\nWe advise attendees to wear a face mask if they feel comfortable doing so\n\n  \nBooking\nBook your place using the booking from below. Places are limited. \nPlease read our event booking Terms and Conditions: https://societyofauthors.org/legal-privacy/event-terms/ \n		\n					\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n							\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Accordion Title\n					\n					Accordion Content \n				\n							\n					\n													\n															\n								\n														\n												Not a member? Join the SoA today for FREE access to all our #SoAatHome events \n					\n					Access 20% off your first year of membership of the SoA with discount code SOAATHOME20  The Society of Authors is the UK’s biggest trade union for authors – representing more than 12\,000 writers\, illustrators\, translators and other creative practitioners.   Our subscription rate is just £137 per year (£97 concessionary) which equates to just under £12 per month (or £8 per month concessionary).  As an SoA member\, you’ll get:  Access to all our #SoAatHome events for free including the Professional Development sessions usually charged at £35 from Feb 2025 Access to all our Feel Good Friday and Industry Insider events which are usually charged £5 from Feb 2025 Access all #SoAatHome Vimeo professional development recordings so you can catch up in your own time Access Unlimited one-to-one professional advice Membership of our online and real-world professional networks and special interest groups A range of member-only discounts\, including books\, insurance and travel And much more ‘It was a surprisingly lovely way to meet fellow writers in a friendly\, warm surrounding perfectly hosted by the SoA staff. Thank you for all the introductions\, the welcome and the nourishment!’  – attendee from SoA in Person: Autumn New Members’ Party 2024  JOIN NOW  |  PRICING
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/educational-writers-group-lates-hosted-by-tony-bradman/
LOCATION:The Society of Authors\, 24 Bedford Row\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, London\, WC1R 4EH\, GB
CATEGORIES:Educational Writers Group,SoA in Person
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