FREEMAN PHILIP WOMACK IS ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF 4 NEW FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
27 NOVEMBER 2024
Cambridge classics professor and non-fiction writer Mary Beard; award-winning crime writer Vaseem Khan; author, illustrator, newspaper cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds; and critically acclaimed young adult author and non-fiction writer Philip Womack were announced as new Fellows to the Society of Authors.
https://societyofauthors.org/2024/11/22/four-new-fellows-announced-by-the-society-of-authors/
They join 56 existing Fellows.
Membership of the Fellows, an honorary body of up to 60 eminent authors, is an accolade conferred by the SoA’s Management Committee, and ratified by the membership, on members of high standing who have been exceptional in their support of the SoA. The Fellows were formerly known as the Council prior to a vote to change the name at the 2022 AGM.
Philip Womack said:
The challenges facing authors are growing day by day. It’s so vital to have a powerful, fast-moving organisation that can help shape policy in the way that the Society of Authors does. I’m immensely proud, and deeply honoured, to have been elected a Fellow. The Society’s support for writers and illustrators is paramount in the fast-changing publishing landscape. It performs a huge amount of work at all levels, from the struggling individual writer, all the way to the top, and I’m thrilled to be able to continue to work with them.