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In 1890 the society founded its quarterly journal, The Author. [17] with Walter Besant as the first editor. He was succeeded by author C. R. Hewitt (writing as "C. H. Rolph"), [17] and the journal is currently edited by James McConnachie. [18] In 1958 the Translators Association (TA) was established as a specialist group within the Society of ...
International connections include: International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (screenwriters guilds in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Mexico); European Writers Congress (over 50 organisations); Fédération des Scénaristes d'Europe (screenwriters' groups in 14 countries); UNI-MEI (worldwide trade union organisation representing millions of workers in the TV ...
The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards, the "UK's top crime writing awards", [4] were started in 1955, less than two years after the association was founded, with the Crossed Red Herring given to Winston Graham for The Little Walls. Over the years, the number of CWA Daggers has increased.
The UK government has a list of professional associations approved for tax purposes (this includes some non-UK based associations, which are not included here). [1] There is a separate list of regulators in the United Kingdom for bodies that are regulators rather than professional associations.
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) [1] is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 [2] to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous International PEN centres in more than 100 countries. Other goals included: to emphasise the role of ...
The Translators Association (TA) was established in 1958 as a specialist group within the Society of Authors, the UK trade union for professional writers, with a membership of more than 12,000. [1] The TA provides professional advice, representing individual translators and acting as an advocate for the profession as a whole.
The Publishers Association (PA) is the trade organisation serving book, journal and electronic publishers in the United Kingdom, established in 1896. [3] Its mission is "to strengthen the trading environment for UK publishers, by providing a strong voice for the industry in government, within society and with other stakeholders in the UK, in Europe and internationally."
Crime Writers' Association (1 C, 8 P) F. The Folklore Society (1 C, 1 P) I. Inklings (1 C, 28 P) R. Royal Society of Literature (3 C, 2 P)