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Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

AFTER YOU VOTE: 🗣️ Remind at least 5 other members of the SoA to vote. 💪 Tell them why you're voting for Jen, Matt, Polly and Mohamed and why you think they can pave the way for better pay, protection against AI, refusing complicity in genocide, and freedom of speech. 🤳 Share these posts!

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

HOW TO VOTE: Voting is open to anyone who has been a Full Member of the Society of Authors since May 1. 🗳️ Ballot papers will be sent to you in the post. ✉️ You can only vote by post. 💰 Your voting pack will include a pre-paid envelope.

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

Polly Atkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, editor, and bookseller based in Cumbria. Her writing includes biography, memoirs, and nature writing, and she has been active in the literary and academic worlds for more than two decades. She also co-owns a long-established independent bookshop.

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

Jen Calleja is is an author, translator, and publisher. She has published seven books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and has translated around 20 books from German into English for both large and small publishers.

Fossil Free Books affirms our solidarity with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah and Palestinian novelist Randa Jarrar who have pulled out of their events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival due to the programming of two Israeli writers, Anshel Pfeffer and genocide denier Etgar Keret.

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Fossil Free Books affirms our solidarity with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah and Palestinian novelist Randa Jarrar who have pulled out of their events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival due to the programming of two Israeli writers, Anshel Pfeffer and genocide denier Etgar Keret.

We encourage solidarity between the many communities that make up the books industry. Full text in images and alt text.

Fossil Free Books affirms our solidarity with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah and Palestinian novelist Randa Jarrar who have pulled out of their events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival due to the programming of two Israeli writers, Anshel Pfeffer and genocide denier Etgar Keret.

Keir Starmer must act to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah. #FreeAlaa Time is pressing as his mother, Laila Soueif's health is deteriorating.

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

Our response to fascist policies which seek to erode our rights and divide society needs to be one of collective solidarity and action.

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

Write to your union representatives and leaders, asking that they support their trans workers and publicly oppose the implementation of the EHRC’s interim guidance.

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

The EHRC interim update for organisations is not legally binding. This means there’s currently no legal obligation for businesses and organisations to implement trans segregation policies. It also means we can – and must – fight for a more just interpretation of the law.

📢 Every author who left the SoA belongs in their union! 🚪 You and hundreds of other authors have left the Society of Authors over the past year. 🚫 It has consistently worked to alienate you for your divestment actions. 🇵🇸 It has demonised you for demanding union solidarity with Palestine. [1]

And it needs to lead the way in resisting a vocal minority expressing racist, Zionist views at the expense of a broad member base. This can only happen if you re-join. [3]

📢 Every author who left the SoA belongs in their union! 🚪 You and hundreds of other authors have left the Society of Authors over the past year. 🚫 It has consistently worked to alienate you for your divestment actions. 🇵🇸 It has demonised you for demanding union solidarity with Palestine. [1]

🗣️ Every woman writer belongs in their union! 🤦🏻‍♀️ With a gender pay gap between male and female authors of 41.4%, women writers experienced a 21% drop in their income between 2017 and 2020.

✍🏾 The Society of Authors recently partnered with Edinburgh Council to give women writers the space and means to write. But gender inequality in the publishing industry remains a systemic issue both in Scotland and across the UK – one that demands an urgent collective response.

📣 Every queer writer belongs in their union!

As a member of the Society of Authors, you can use your power to maintain your union's unwavering resistance to censorship and marginalisation. Join now and vote to ensure the breadth of the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies are represented on the Management Committee.

📣 Every queer writer belongs in their union!

🌈 A recent survey of UK school libraries revealed worrying instances of books with LGBTQIA+ themes being removed from shelves. Transphobic speakers are platformed at literary festivals, and queer reading events have been targeted and even cancelled.

📢 Every disabled writer belongs in their union! 📈 Disabled people in the UK face a higher cost of living. With author pay at an all-time low, the industry has never felt more excluding. ‼️ From cuts to state support, lack of accommodations and inaccessible events, disabled writers deserve better.

🦾 The only way to build a more inclusive publishing industry is through collective action. Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

📢 Every disabled writer belongs in their union! 📈 Disabled people in the UK face a higher cost of living. With author pay at an all-time low, the industry has never felt more excluding. ‼️ From cuts to state support, lack of accommodations and inaccessible events, disabled writers deserve better.

📢 Every poet belongs in their union! 💸 2024 was a record-breaking year for poetry book sales. Despite this giving poets more power in the market, so few make money from sales. 💪 Being a poet today remains precarious, and you deserve a trade union that will better serve you as a worker. [1]

🫵 The only way to create a better industry for poets is through collective action – and you can be part of that. [3]

📢 Every poet belongs in their union! 💸 2024 was a record-breaking year for poetry book sales. Despite this giving poets more power in the market, so few make money from sales. 💪 Being a poet today remains precarious, and you deserve a trade union that will better serve you as a worker. [1]