Non-title-specific foreign reprographic royalties received by ACA are distributed to our Member Associations. These funds are mandated to benefit every American creator, and not just an organization’s members.
ACA pays title-specific foreign reprographic royalties directly to identified photographers, artists and writers. We are proud to help support a vibrant, growing American arts community. To date, over $3 million has been paid to more than 3,000 creators. Are we looking for you? Visit our Individual Author Distributions Program page to find out.
Chapter books are aimed at newly independent readers. These are kids who have graduated from having books read to them to reading books on their own. (Although a family read-a-long is always wonderful!). These readers are around ages 6-9. They are starting to feel independent and proud of their reading prowess.
During TAA’s May 2024 Conversation Circle, several members shared their experiences with ‘academese’ and tips for how academic writers can avoid it in their writing. Academese is characterized by writing that is heavily filled with jargon, overcomplicated language, and/or convoluted sentence structure (Wikipedia).
Here’s your moment to stop and think, to learn before you put your pen to paper and ink that contract or hit publish on your book.
Poets from the NWU’s New York Chapter performed during a prime slot at this year’s New York Poetry Festival, an annual outdoor event on Governors Island organized by The Poetry Society of New York.
The Dramatists Guild of America has co-signed the following Authors Guild letter to the United States Congress, seeking legislative amendments to labor and antitrust laws that would enable freelance professional creators (including playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists) to negotiate collectively.
The NASW Freelance Committee decided to get a clearer picture of the pitching scene at popular magazines for science journalists. Here’s what we learned from a brief, unscientific survey conducted by email this spring from select editors at Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, Science, Slate, and Quanta.
As we face an increasingly tense political season, we urge media companies to fund security training for journalists who may not have it, whether staff or freelance, and to ensure that frontline media have the tools and support they need to do their jobs.
The Authors Guild is delighted to partner with a new grassroots organization called Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) to mobilize authors and illustrators in the fight against the growing number of book bans and challenges across the country.
Bestselling novelist Craig Johnson and Dayton Duncan, documentarian Ken Burns’s longtime scriptwriter, are among this year’s Spur Award winners from Western Writers of America.
Mystery Writers of America is dedicated to promoting higher regard for crime writing and recognition, respect for those who write within the genre, and general literacy. As part of our mission, we’ve created this educator’s page with links to mystery-based reading and writing learning exercises.
Every year since 1981 the Society has held the Student Scholarship Competition. Hundreds of works are chosen from entries submitted by professors of college-level students nationwide. In a competition which can kick start a career, students bring their most sophisticated, well-crafted and original work to be tested.
With philanthropic support, AHCJ is able to help journalists across the country attend the annual conference, providing one of the most direct and extensive professional development opportunities in the industry.
In 2010, Sisters in Crime instituted the We Love Libraries grant to help libraries as they struggled to recover following the Great Recession. This year, SINC will make six grants of $500 each.
Givers Fund Grants are intended to aid projects that align with SFWA’s mission to promote, advance, and support science fiction and fantasy writing around the world.
Longtime APA member Donald Graham recently obtained the first ever judgment for copyright infringement against the appropriation artist, Richard Prince, in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York.
The Graphic Artists Guild position on AI generative technology is grounded on the fundamental rights of artists: credit for the work we do, our consent for the use of our work, and compensation for the tremendous value we bring. For our visual culture to continue to develop, the artists need to be respected and valued.