Managing Your Creative Collaborations: Society of Authors

Join two expert advisors from the Society of Authors, Elizabeth Haylett Clark (Senior Contracts Advisor) and Elsa Woodmeade (Local Groups Manager), for a session that will cover everything you need to agree before starting work with your creative collaborators. 

It will be relevant for those working on jointly authored novels and non-fiction works, ghost writers, translators, illustrators, creators of graphic novels and comics, and any other projects where two or more people are collaborating.

Expect a discussion on copyright, control and approvals, negotiations and power balance, financial matters, and what happens if things don’t turn out as expected.

Open to writers of all levels, this information session will include a presentation for approximately one hour and plenty of time for questions.

Elizabeth Haylett Clark is a Senior Contracts Advisor at the Society of Authors, where she is part of the advisory team answering queries on all kinds of matters relating to the business of publishing and commenting in detail on members’ contracts.

Elsa Woodmeade is the Local Groups Manager at the Society of Authors, where they coordinate a network of volunteer-run groups for writers to find support and community in their area. Elsa is also the staff coordinator for the Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses Network.

The Society of Authors (SoA) is a UK trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. Membership of the society is open to anyone who creates work for publication, broadcast or performance and the society both gives individual advice and voices concerns about authors rights, the publishing and creative industries, and wider cultural matters.