Download the Access Form – Social Model

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You can find out more about the SoA’s Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses Network (ADCI) via our website here: societyofauthors.org/groups/autho...

Download the Access Form – Medical Model

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It’s probably easier if you do because you will get the recording link sent straight to you.

ADCI and the SoA worked together to create the Access Form (known in some cases as an Access Rider) and designed it to provide a simple, easy to complete form to share with your publishing team to communicate your needs. You can download the form here…

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Thanks for sharing!

I’m really looking forward to the conversation.

The Industry Insider with the @societyofauthors.bsky.social will help explain to authors and industry professionals how access forms work and why they make requesting access requirements easier and ultimately save everyone involved time, money and stress.

Sign up here…

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The Industry Insider with the @societyofauthors.bsky.social will help explain to authors and industry professionals how access forms work and why they make requesting access requirements easier and ultimately save everyone involved time, money and stress.

Sign up here…

bit.ly/48Bmxxb

This discussion isn’t just for authors, it’s for anyone in the #publishing industry who works with authors who have access requirements - hint, that’s everyone, even if they haven’t disclosed those needs to you yet.

Hat tip to the Disability Arts Online Access Rider Open Template for the framework we needed to make this happen.

ADCI and the SoA worked together to create the Access Form (known in some cases as an Access Rider) and designed it to provide a simple, easy to complete form to share with your publishing team to communicate your needs. You can download the form here…

bit.ly/3WfXMiM

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As a disabled, chronically ill or neurodivergent person, it can be difficult to ask for what you need in relation to reasonable adjustments and many authors don’t know what they are legally entitled to, what’s possible to adapt, or how to ask.

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We’ll hear from publishing director Hannah Knowles, literary agent Caro Clarke, author Polly Atkin and Ama Badu about their experiences and hopes for how the form can be implemented. This event will be chaired by ADCI founder Claire Wade.

The session will be recorded.

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To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone else in the sector to work together more effectively.

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Done!