🚨 Attention authors, illustrators & translators - you have FOUR hours left to register your proxy vote for the upcoming Society of Authors EGM on May 2nd.

🚨 Deadline is 5pm for those registered to vote at the EGM. Check your emails or DM Fossil Free Books if you have any queries.

🚨 The deadline for proxy voting is today at 5pm! 🚨

We invite all members and associate members to join us at the Society of Authors EGM meeting on the 2nd of May.

Translator Julia Sanches shares a statement of support for our resolutions. Please read and RT!

📣 STEWED LAUNCH 🥳

🐺 Titilayo Farukuoye 🐺
🟡 In Wolf’s Skin

w/ support from Etzali Hernández & Brenda Vengesa

🗓️07.05.24
🕖7pm
📖Lighthouse Books

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Today is your last chance to register for the EGM. Please, if you’re a member of the Society of Authors, register now and vote on 2 May.

The deadline for casting a proxy vote is Tuesday April 30th at 5pm.

Please RT + share widely to make sure Society of Authors authors, illustrators & translators don't miss the opportunity to vote on our EGM resolutions on May 2nd.

🚨TODAY 🚨 is deadline for existing SoA members to register to vote at the Society of Authors May 2nd, EGM!

Don’t forget to register if you still haven’t.

Children’s author Anna James (@acaseforbooks) shares her support of our motions in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

What a bleak turn of events.

Scotland's self-image as a progressive country is at odds with the actions of politicians and the media who have spent recent years bashing the government's (negligible and piecemeal) efforts to address hate crimes, LGBTQ rights and the environment.

The motive is genocide. Israel keeps telling us the motive. All of we survivors of white western orchestrated genocides are saying don’t wager coming back later in unrigorous “hindsight”. We are “driven instead” by life! Palestinian life! Which is worth all of our lives. And now

Illustrator Emma Reynolds (Emma Reynolds 🦇) has endorsed Fossil Free Books.

'I fully support and endorse the interconnected resolutions calling for fossil fuel divestment and an immediate ceasefire and end to the genocide in Gaza.'

Statement of support from author & translator Jen Calleja (Jen Calleja).

“I hope that my fellow writers and translators will vote in support of the resolution to call for a permanent ceasefire in Palestine and to urge literary organisations to divest from fossil fuel companies.”

A lot of you all would’ve absolutely hated the Civil Rights Movement had you lived through it, and it shows.

Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. Via ⁦Literary Hub⁩ lithub.com/verso-and-othe…

Sharing this statement of support from the author A K BLAKEMORE ahead of our EGM on May 2nd with Society of Authors:

“I believe that worthwhile writing- and worthwhile writers - strive not only to reflect the richness and complexity of human life, but to honour it as well.”

the fact that the college students protesting this got more backlash than this is insane to me

Columbus Police exactly one year ago when dealing with armed neo nazis vs today when dealing with college protesters.

Last night, we celebrated the publication of Jackie Kay’s new poetry collection May Day - it was joyful, emotional, unforgettable. Thank you Jackie for your warmth, kindness and power, to Andrés N. Ordorica for your brilliant chairing and to a wonderful audience. ❤️

Fabulous to have publication day event for #MayDay in Edinburgh, the city of ⁦Jackie Kay⁩’s birth. Big thanks to Euan, Alice & all the wonderful ⁦The Portobello Bookshop⁩ team, to ⁦Andrés N. Ordorica⁩ for brilliant & charming chairing, & to warm & engaged audience ❤️🌹❤️

This is wild! The reception my little debut has gotten is surreal. 💕

If you want to continue to support me, please do pre-order the UK version out July 4th with Saraband Books.

If you’ve read it and liked it, please do leave a review. Every bit helps.
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Statement of support from author Omar Robert Hamilton.

🚨 Society of Authors informed us the deadline for NEW MEMBERS or REJOINING MEMBERS registration is TODAY MIDDAY. 🚨

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