12 January 2021 Winner of 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Kay Heikkinen wins the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her translation of the novel Velvet by Huzama Habayeb.
07 January 2021 Update on Government Covid-19 support schemes What you need to know about the latest Government Covid-19 for the self-employed.
04 January 2021 The SoA View on the Brexit deal While the deal offers a starting point, too much is unclear and the end of Freedom of Movement will create a complex and costly challenge for creative freelancers
23 December 2020 The SoA View on what comes next Some of the key themes and issues we will be working on in 2021 - from author incomes and statutory support, to Brexit, contractual transparency and industry inequalities.
23 December 2020 2020 - the year we did not ask for A bitter-sweet short walk through 2020 - with Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Inua Ellams, Daljit Nagra, Tracy Chevalier, Dapo Adeola, Hannah Berry and more.
09 December 2020 Black History Matters by Robin Walker wins 2020 ALCS Educational Writers' Award Black History Matters by Robin Walker wins the UK's sole award for creative educational writing.
08 December 2020 Society of Authors awards £185,000 in grants for work in progress 48 authors have received a financial grant to support their ongoing writing projects, worth more than £185,000 in total.
08 December 2020 'All to play for' following Government spending review SoA continues to lobby Six Point Plan for authors following Comprehensive Spending Review announcement in November.
26 November 2020 The SoA View: ‘Palpable nonsense’ from Audible We condemn Amazon’s audiobook wing for their opaque returns and exchange policy.
24 November 2020 ‘Mind expanding’, ‘timeless and timely’ announcing the 2020 Translation Prizes shortlists 35 translations from six languages: announcing the six shortlists for the 2020 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
24 November 2020 Raymond Briggs, Cressida Cowell and David Donachie join the SoA Council Decision to appoint three new SoA Council members ratified at the union’s AGM on 19 November 2020
16 November 2020 Shortlist for ALCS Educational Writers' Award 2020: 'Celebrating diversity and inspiring change' Five books on shortlist for UK’s only award for creative educational writing
05 November 2020 The SoA View: On asking to be named We were proud to sign this open letter by Dapo Adeola to the BBC, but he should not have had to write it in the first place.
02 November 2020 Koomson, Rooney, Skea and Womack elected to Society of Authors’ board New faces join the Society of Authors' board of directors
30 October 2020 Unions demand commitment and action from Government to support creative industries and its workers The SoA has joined other leading creative membership organisations and trade unions to call on the Chancellor to fix the flawed programme of support for self employed workers, and to protect our...
22 October 2020 How would you improve copyright and piracy claims? The Intellectual Property Office wants to hear from you to try to improve its systems – and your responses will help us in lobbying for change.
20 October 2020 £600k Hardship Fund for authors in Scotland SoA partners with Creative Scotland to distribute £600k in hardship grants to authors in Scotland
15 October 2020 Two-thirds of authors reporting loss of income during Covid-19, according to new SoA survey Third real-time survey confirms extent of Covid-19 impact on earnings of writers, illustrators and literary translators.
14 October 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020 for SoA members Congratulations to the SoA members recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2020 list.
07 October 2020 Society of Authors 2020 AGM to run online For the safety of members and staff this year’s Annual General Meeting will be hosted on Zoom only