About the Society

Staff

You can contact the Society's staff between 9:30am and 5:30pm Monday to Thursday. On Fridays the offices are open between 9:30am and 1pm and between 2pm and 5pm.

• Tel: 020 7373 6642
• Fax: 020 7373 5768
• General email: info@societyofauthors.org

The Society's staff and their principal areas of responsibility are as follows:

Mark Le Fanu
General Secretary

Policy, negotiations/disputes with publishers and agents, finance, Public Lending Right.

Email: MLeFanu@societyofauthors.org

Kate Pool
Deputy General Secretary

Advice to members on contracts, publishing, copyright, etc. Manager of The Author and publications, Secretary of the Academic Writers Group.

Email: KPool@societyofauthors.org

Jo McCrum - currently on maternity leave
Assistant General Secretary

Email: JMcCrum@societyofauthors.org

Jeremy Crow
Head of Literary Estates

Advice to members on stage and screen contracts and issues.

Email:JCrow@societyofauthors.org

Elizabeth Haylett Clark

Literary Estates, advice to members on publishing contracts and issues, Secretary of the Educational Writers Group.

Email: EHaylettClark@societyofauthors.org

Lisa Dowdeswell
Permissions Manager

Advice to members on publishing contracts and issues, copyright, permissions, literary estates and foreign rights. Secretary of the Children's Writers & Illustrators Group (CWIG).

Email: LDowdeswell@societyofauthors.org

Emma Boniwell
Membership officer

Membership enquiries, Direct Debits.

Email: EBoniwell@societyofauthors.org

Emma Winnifrith
Membership Secretary

Membership queries, recruitment, subscriptions and database management.

Email: EWinnifrith@societyofauthors.org

Paula Johnson
Awards Secretary

Prizes, grants and awards.

Email:PJohnson@societyofauthors.org

Sarah Baxter
Advice to members on publishing contracts and issues, Secretary of the Medical Writers Judging Panel. Assists with the Society's prizes and charitable trust applications. Secretary of the Broadcasting Group. Manages the Society's website.

Email: SBaxter@societyofauthors.org

Anna Ganley - currently on maternity leave
Advice to members on publishing contracts and issues.

Email: AGanley@societyofauthors.org

Jon Andrewartha
Accountant

Email: JAndrewartha@societyofauthors.org

Sarah Burton
Office Administrator

General enquiries, all events bookings, bookings for meetings, boardroom hire. Secretary of Authors' North, the Translators' Association and is the contact for the Society's Group Legal Protection scheme.

Email: SBurton@societyofauthors.org

Rachel Morgan
Receptionist

General enquiries, publications, online database, website enquiries and Authors' Arcade advertising.

Email: RMorgan@societyofauthors.org

See also

About the Society
Council
History
Management Committee