The Authors Guild
@AuthorsGuild
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Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
New York, NY
Joined March 2010
The Authors Guild exists to support working writers. Learn what we're doing about AI: Join us to stop book banning: See all our advocacy work:
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RT @POETSorg: Tomorrow, 2/10, at 7 p.m. ET, don’t miss your chance to catch a rare U.S. appearance by award-winning poet Alice Oswald at th…
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RT @Eileen99: Check out this rare event taking place on Feb. 10 at the @strandbookstore in NYC, hosted by the @AuthorsGuild and @POETSorg,…
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RT @POETSorg: #PoetryNearYou: Pick of the Week On Mon., 2/10, at 7 p.m. ET, join us for a rare U.S. appearance by award-winning poet Alice…
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The Authors Guild signed a joint letter to the D.C. U.S. Attorney opposing the criminalization of basic reporting about government employees. @spj_tweets, @demandprogress, @FreedomofPress Read our statement:
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A welcome victory against a deeply troubling proposal to create a new “data mining” exception to U.K. copyright law. The U.K. House of Lords voted to support copyright and creativity by passing amendments to observe copyright law, reveal purpose, etc.
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RT @demandprogress: A U.S. attorney sent a letter asking @elonmusk to use his office to protect @DOGE. We joined @FreedomofPress & two doze…
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RT @FreedomofPress: The First Amendment permits identifying and harshly criticizing government workers, even when the world’s richest perso…
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"Aesthetics are the building blocks of thought, of language, of story. I think a story should be about its own sounds and its own energy before it’s about anything else."
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Idaho has deputized private citizens to hunt libraries. Under its new ban, anyone can sue a library for having a book they think is inappropriate. The Authors Guild and publishers are suing Idaho in federal court to stop this draconian ban. Learn more:
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"It’s not just the final story—that pitch-perfect and cleanly-edited draft or the beautifully bound book that you and (hopefully) readers can hold—that matters. What matters the most is the blank page where you start."
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RT @chillsubs: Lots of industry badies opened for submissions this week. I mean badies in a good way…. goodies? Ick, no. Whatever PLACES T…
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RT @pubperspectives: US Publishers Sue State of Idaho, Alleging Book Banning | @Porter_Anderson @PenguinRH_news @Ha…
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Happy publication day for the FOURTEEN DAYS paperback! Set in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, the experiences and lives of its neighbors were written by different authors—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.
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"The plot doesn’t come to you in journalism, any more than it does in fiction. You still have to find the story."
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In our 1st session, Jesse McCarthy will examine one of Baldwin’s most famous pieces of literary criticism, Everybody’s Protest Novel alongside passages from Henry James’s The Art of Fiction. Space is limited so grab your tickets NOW!
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The latest roundup of book censorship news courtesy of Book Riot.
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RT @Unite4Copyright: Check out the new @AuthorsGuild certification, “Human Authored,” designed to preserve authenticity in literature. #AI…
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Monday, 2/10: A collaboration between the Authors Guild Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and The Strand, award-winning poet Alice Oswald will perform NOBODY, her latest book of poems. Learn more and get tickets:
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RT @Transparency4AI: Kudos to @AuthorsGuild for their Human Authored authenticity mark released earlier this week. This is the kind of inno…
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