How to protect against scammers - a guide for authors

Fraudulent activity targeting authors has risen alarmingly. To tackle this, we’ve joined forces with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain to issue urgent new guidance outlining measures writers can take to protect themselves.

The UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators.

12,500 members strong.

Empowering authors since 1884.

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2024 SoA Awards and Summer Party

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Celebrating the winners of over £140,000 in prizes for fiction, non-fiction and poetry – 20 June 2024.

ADCI Literary Prize  |  ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award  |  Betty Trask Prize & Awards  |  Cholmondeley Awards  |  Eric Gregory Awards  |  McKitterick Prize  |  Paul Torday Memorial Prize  |  Queen’s Knickers Award  |  Somerset Maugham Awards  |  Volcano Prize  |  Travelling Scholarships