With details of upcoming Autumn/Winter workshops:
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Join us for
more events this Autumn!
Bookings now open
Our Autumn/Winter
events programme continues with a mixture of
online and in person events, including the chance to RSVP
for our rescheduled Literary Walk!
Join us for a panel discussion on different experiences of the
road to publication, for online workshops hosted by our
Contracts Advisors on how to read a royalty statement and
the business of working with Literary agents, and much more....
Click on
an event below to sign up or view all events here
Missed
any past events? Catch up on our Vimeo
channel
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Visit
our virtual bookstore
You can also browse our virtual Bookshop.org store featuring
books by authors and speakers taking part in SoA @ Home. When you
make a purchase using our affiliate link a percentage will go to
the Authors’ Contingency Fund, providing hardship grants to
authors in financial difficulty.
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In Person: SoA Lates
Wednesday
28 September 2022
18.00-20.00
Join
us for our Autumn SoA Late and the chance to meet and mingle with
SoA staff and fellow members.
Places are limited and subject to availability and are for SoA
Members only.
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Afternoon Tea with Raymond
Antrobus
Thursday
29 September 2022
14.30-15.15
Grab
a cuppa and get to know award-winning poet Raymond
Antrobus. Raymond will be in conversation
with poet Victoria
Adukwei Bulley to discuss
his work and career and will offer a glimpse into his creative
routine.
In conjunction with our Poetry
and Spoken Word Group.
This will take place online via Zoom with live
captioning and BSL interpretation.
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Feel Good Friday - Stretch at
Your Desk
Friday
30 September 2022
11.00-11.45
Fitness
professional and author Tina Baker specialises
in fun, functional exercises you can do at your desk. With 17
years’ experience teaching older bodies, bodies with issues and
fellow desk-bound creatives, exercise has transformed her body
and mental health.
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In Person: SoA Literary
Walk
Monday 3
October 2022
14.30-17.30
SoA
members are invited to join us for a Literary Walk hosted by
Green Badge City of London Guide, Sam Jacobs.
Enjoy a walk through London’s history, seeing
sights from pubs to churches and statues associated with some of
the greatest writers.
Tickets
£10 - SoA Members
£12 - Non-Members
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Professional Development - Tax
Talk with HW Fisher
Tuesday
4 October 2022
10.00-11.30
HW
Fisher is hosting a session led by consultant Barry Kernon,
to help people understand how to deal with tax minefields. This
session will cover tackling tax returns, VAT, and Making Tax
Digital (MTD) – the digital filing of income tax and VAT returns.
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Industry Insider - Debut Authors
Monday
10 October 2022
14.00-15.30
Join
authors Lizzie
Pook, Julie Owen Moylan, Lizzie Damilola
Blackburn, and chair Margaret
Skea, as they share their different
experiences of the ‘long road to publication’, including the
highs and lows of their journeys towards publication, where they
are now as authors, along with any top tips for others hoping to
follow in their footsteps.
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Professional Development - The
Business of Working with Literary Agents
Tuesday
11 October 2022
10.00-11.30
Join SoA Publishing
Contracts Advisor, Johanna Clarke,
as she talks through the key things to be aware of when
navigating an author/agent relationship from an advisory
perspective. She will advise on initial considerations when
starting out, what you should and shouldn’t be expecting from
your agent, the importance and implications of your agency
agreement and some considerations for when leaving or moving
agencies.
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Professional Development - How
to Read a Royalty Statement
Tuesday
18 October 2022
10.00-11.30
This SoA @ Home event, run by our Head of the Contracts Advisory Team, Sarah
Burton, and our Head of Finance, Katharine King,
will unpack how to read your statement alongside your publishing
contract and break down opaque terminology. We’ll also discuss
what to do if you think something isn’t right.
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SoA in Scotland: Industry
Insider – Promoting Yourself and Your Work
Tuesday
18 October 2022
18.30-20.00
Panellists Damian
Barr and Anna Frame join
our chair Heather
Parry for the fifth of our SoAis Industry
Insider events. This series is designed for new and emerging
authors based in Scotland to learn more about the publishing industry
and the process of being published.
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Professional Development - Your
Writing Journey - From Ideas to Bookshelves
Thursday
20 October 2022
10.00-11.30
Join
authors Frances
Mensah Williams (From Pasta to Pigfoot, Imperfect
Arrangements, The Second Time We Met), and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (The Sex Lives of
African Women), for the first event in Everything I
Know About Writing, a unique webinar series for writers and aspiring
writers everywhere. Between them, they’ve published scores of
articles in magazines, literary and news publications, created an
award-winning e-zine and blog, and written nine books including
non-fiction, novels, and novellas.
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Supporting
authors in financial crisis
All
sessions are free to attend for members.
We invite all attendees of our free events to make a small
donation to the Authors’ Contingency Fund if you can afford
to do so.
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Watch
again on Vimeo
Missed
an event? Or just fancy a re-watch?
Catch up with most of our events on Vimeo
Watch
them back here
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