All Party Writers Group

December 8, 2017

The annual All Party Writers Group (APWG) Winter Reception, 5th of December

The APWG hosted writers, industry professionals and parliamentarians for the presentation of two awards. First was the 2017 Educational Writers’ Award, the UK’s only award for creative educational writing, which was won by The Book of Bees, written by Wojciech Grajkowski,...

July 28, 2017

All Party Writers Group elects officers

The All Party Writers Group (APWG) is pleased to announce that John Whittingdale MP has been elected as the new Chair of the Group. To support John Whittingdale in his role, Lord Tim Clement-Jones and Pete Wishart MP will act...

May 22, 2017

APWG Summer Reception 2017 on 23 May at the House of Commons – cancelled

Unfortunately all events at the Palace of Westminster have been cancelled because of the forthcoming election and the imminent dissolution of parliament on 2nd May, including the APWG summer reception which was due to occur on 23 May. We’ve been...

May 2, 2017

Digital Economy Act 2017 extends Public Lending Right (PLR) to ebooks

The All Party Writers Group has long lobbied for the extension of PLR to the remote lending of ebooks and audiobooks and this has now been achieved with the passage of the Digital Economy Act 2017. The Digital Economy Act...

April 24, 2017

ALCS and SoA joint briefing on E-lending and the Digital Economy Bill

A joint briefing from the ALCS and Society of Authors regarding the Digital Economy Bill and the extension of PLR to ebooks

March 8, 2017

ALCS, WGGB, RSL and SoA Joint Briefing on the Digital Single Market and authors’ remuneration

Joint Briefing on the draft Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market and authors' remuneration, from the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, Writers' Guild of Great Britain, The Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Authors.

December 6, 2016

APWG Winter Reception 2016

The All Party Writers Group winter reception was held on the Terrace at the House of Commons on the 6th December 2016. The reception included the presentation of the Educational Writers' Award and the inaugural Ruth Rendell Award for services to literacy....

September 25, 2016

ALCS and Society of Authors joint briefing on the Digital Economy Bill

July 20, 2016

Digital Single Market strategy for Europe

The European Commission has released a communication on a Digital Single Market strategy for Europe. You can read about it here.

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