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Every book, article, script, image & performance starts with a creator. We're proud to back the Smart Fund, a proposal that could raise up to £300m annually for creators. Read our joint letter with DACS - Design and Artists Copyright Society PICSEL & BECS: https://ow.ly/feEO5101pyj

Free for all writers! Next up in our in-person training programme is a session on advanced copyright and contracts on 12 Nov in London, led by Robert Taylor Aimed at more experienced writers, it is open to non-members too. Thanks to our sponsor @alcs.co.uk forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

The members' area of our website will be closed this evening from 6pm. It should be open again tomorrow morning as usual. Thank you for your patience while we carry out this maintenance

In a joint letter published in the Guardian, Smart Fund partners @dacs.org.uk , @alcs.co.uk, BECS and @picsel-collective.bsky.social are calling for creators to receive a fairer share of the value generated through technology.

Creators should share in the value that their work helps to generate 💰📈

Employment status reform, late payment and social security were among the issues discussed at yesterday’s APPG for Freelancers meeting, which FMTW attended. Jo Stevens MP was elected Chair. Read our update: buff.ly/FCogPUS #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #APPG #UKArts

Writers, the @alcs.co.uk deadline is earlier this year (31st October) so don’t miss out .

We're back up and running, thanks all!

Our website is currently down for essential maintenance. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused and we hope to be back up and running as soon as possible.

Today would have been Maureen Duffy's 93rd birthday. We wanted to honour her as a writer and as an activist, in particular all she did for authors' rights, so we devoted an episode of our podcast to her. We'd love it if you could listen and share: https://ow.ly/vxIz50ZYYet

The members' area of our website will be closed from 6pm this evening while we carry out some updates. Please bear this in mind if you need to access your account. We appreciate your patience!

News from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Freelancers 📢 📰 Yesterday's APPG for Freelancers EGM saw @jostevenslabour.bsky.social elected as the new Chair and heard updates from @lizziecrump.bsky.social, one of the Government's Freelance Champions.

Time to claim cash for copying of your words ✍️ If you're an @alcs.co.uk member you have until 31 October to submit details of your work in mags & journals. Not yet a member? Sign up now! NUJ members go free. Claim here: buff.ly/0J8nDQm

💻 Free for all writers – in-person training in Birmingham – copyright and factual material🖊️ 🗓️ Thursday 29 October, 11.30am to 3.30pm To help writers navigate confidently the boundaries of truth, opinion, fiction and fair comment Register by noon, 22 Oct 🔽 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

What do we want to see for writers in the upcoming Budget? 📚 Increase the Public Lending Right fund 💡 Introduce a UK Smart Fund ✍️ Policies that recognise writers' economic and cultural value We'll be looking closely on 28 Oct to see what the Government is doing to back writers 👀

We lost a great this year when our Honorary President Maureen Duffy passed away. Our latest podcast is dedicated to celebrating her life; her legacy as an activist; & pays tribute her gifts as a writer. Out now: https://ow.ly/j1Lt50ZYb7b Stella Duffy King's Arts & Humanities King's English

🎓 'She worked very hard to get into university and was very proud of having gone to King's.' Professor Lawrence Warner pays tribute to @kclalumni.bsky.social Maureen Duffy on a special episode of the @alcs.co.uk Authors' Matters podcast 👇 alcs.buzzsprout.com/536413/episo...

Our offices are closed today for a staff away day. We'll be back at our desks as usual tomorrow (Friday 16 Oct). Thank you for your patience!

Change of plans, no closure this evening so please log in if you need to!

Today at the Creators Emergency Summit, creators, policymakers and industry organisations came together to explore how creative livelihoods can be protected in the age of generative AI.

“We’re being guided by our members on this.. those who are owed will get compensation, if they choose.” Our CEO Barbara updates the Creators Emergency Summit on our recent AI licensing work

We’re at the Creators Emergency Summit today for a day of considering AI, how it’s impacting our sector and crucially finding a way forward for creators in this new digital landscape 📍

Just got an @alcs.co.uk payment. Woohoo! £18 royalties spread over 11 books. But it's still £18.

Tonight and tomorrow evening (13/10), the members' area of our website will be closed from 6pm while we carry out some updates. Please bear this in mind if you need to access your account. We appreciate your patience!

Very proud to play a small part in making delicious things happen to good writers!

Thank you @ALCS. Just a little payment this time but it will buy me some printer ink/stationery. If you are a writer/journalist in the UK, it's well worth joining. 😊

If you're a freelance writer + want to learn more about managing your finances, then our next free in-person workshop is for you! 22 Oct, 11am-3pm, London, led by David Thomas And non-members are welcome too! Thanks to our sponsor @alcs.co.uk Register 🔽 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Creativity is inherently human. That's why it needs to be respected & protected. We loved having poets Chris & Francesca on Authors' Matters to celebrate National Poetry Day & share their thoughts on what AI means for writers but also for the planet. Watch the episode: https://ow.ly/g3gh50ZUWRc

ALCS are ace. Thank you. Now, broadcasters and production companies how about we bin buy-out contracts for writers.

Not long until the next Creators Emergency Summit 📣 We proud to be supporting and have our CEO Barbara there as a panellist, talking about the importance of licensing in the age of AI. Join us on 13 Oct: https://ow.ly/AXVZ50ZTqU4

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! This year's theme is wonder & we got wonderous on the pod with Francesca Beard and Chris Redmond of Hot Poets Collective. Hot Poets have teamed up with National Poetry Day to bring poetry & science together to address the climate emergency. Watch: https://ow.ly/Zg7n50ZTppK

Love you guys (truly) I make more from ALCS payments than I do from selling my books, and I appreciate them more than I can say 🖤 (It'll be going towards the bills because I'm broke, but it has certainly cheered me up!)

Save it now to spend a little later is probably my approach. Thank you, as it is always a nice surprise

As ever, thank you. Good wishes to all at ALCS: always a shining light, but more so in these days of take and take and take and other darknesses...

A shout out for @alcs.co.uk (Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society), an entirely beneficial non-profit that collects secondary royalties for writers in the UK. Do sign up if you have books likely sold second-hand. I receive a twice yearly tidy sum.

My six monthly reminder for U.K. academic authors to make sure you’re signed up. Especially if your works are used as teaching materials.

Reading makes you more attractive, you heard it here first! Catch the season premiere of Authors’ Matters with Sathnam Sanghera & Pan Macmillan CEO Joanna Prior as they discuss why people are stopping reading and what we can do about it. Watch now: https://ow.ly/po8y50ZT0ka

Thank you @alcs!

Thank you! If you’re a writer, sign up — you may be due royalties on your work 👇

A small but no less appreciated autumn payment from the might @alcs.co.uk - definitely worthy of a little spending treat! Thank you to ALCS for all the work you do - authors and writers if you’re not signed up then get on it!!

Happy distribution! This week we're paying over £12million to over 30,000 writers 🙌🍂 We hope this autumn payment can make a bit of difference to our members - are you saving or spending yours?

A compact and bijou @alcs.co.uk payment arrives! It'll be a four-finger KitKat from the newsagent today.

Oooh, might spend a smidge of mine on an indie game or two and justify it that way

We love to hear when members are spending their ALCS payment on books - keeping the ecosystem in balance 📚🌱

Spend, spend spend!

Happy distribution! This week we're paying over £12million to over 30,000 writers 🙌🍂 We hope this autumn payment can make a bit of difference to our members - are you saving or spending yours?