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We have a staff team of 33 who work full or part-time, from our London offices and remotely across the UK.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Management team<\/a><\/h3>

Senior SoA staff leading specific activities and working together on organisational strategy and development<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Contracts and advice<\/a><\/h3>

Providing expert one-to-one advice to members \u2014 from vetting contracts to offering support at every stage of the author career<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Estates<\/a><\/h3>

Managing the literary estates of many distinguished writers, including Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin and Rosamond Lehmann<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Member services<\/a><\/h3>

Our front line team, managing member subscriptions and continually working to improve our services to members<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prizes and awards<\/a><\/h3>

Administering our range of awards for poetry, fiction, non-fiction and translation, alongside our grants for works in progress and for authors in need<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Communications, events and outreach<\/a><\/h3>

Coordinating our outward public and member-facing work \u2014 from public relations, online channels and The Author, to online and in-venue events and community building<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Policy and campaigns<\/a><\/h3>

Promoting the interests of authors through public campaigns, political and industry lobbying, and working with partners<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Community coordinators<\/a><\/h3>

Bringing our members together in professional and national groups and networks, and local communities<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Operations<\/a><\/h3>

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