The Authors Guild

The Authors Guild offers a comprehensive guide to the settlement, your options, and how to file a claim here:

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🚨🚨 Filing a Claim Form yourself is the ONLY way to ensure that you will receive the amounts you are entitled to

🚨🚨 Don’t miss out on your Anthropic claim! The deadline is fast approaching.

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Join Cheryl and Wade Hudson to uplift messages of hope, resilience, and activism for young people in Minneapolis and across the county.

Hosted by @justusbooks.bsky.social , @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social , @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social , the Authors Guild & others

What does it mean to rise, resist, and raise your voice right now? Authors and illustrators, including Jackie Woodson, Sharon Draper, Margarita Engle, are joining us for a virtual event to answer exactly that. Don’t miss it!

Ghost Writing: On AI Before AI When is an author not an author? The question feels like the lead up to a nerdy joke. But these days, with the looming presence of artificial intelligence, I feel as if I am asking that question ev…

Today, ghostwriting websites must work to advertise why they could perform their writing-for-hire services better than a machine.

The Authors Guild is allowing more writers to certify their books are AI-free. The Authors Guild is expanding its Human Authored certification program to allow publishers and non-Guild members certify that their work is untainted by AI, according to the Guild and Publishers W…

The program allows authors to verify that their books are written completely by a human and not generated by software, and then gives them a trademarked seal to signal that the book is human authored.

Here’s a quick thread on why this is important and how you can most effectively get involved:

🚨🚨🚨 ACTION ALERT: Massachusetts readers, ask your legislators to protect the freedom to read by supporting H.3594, An Act Regarding Free Expression. This bill would strengthen protections for libraries & students’ right to read.

Send a message today: act.pen.org/a/mass-actio...

Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching.

It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

Ad for a session. There is a black and teal gradient in the back. It reads AWP 2026 Conference How to Resist AI in Writing & Teaching Then three images: A femme with dark hair wearing a black blazer and a dark blouse, looking towards the camera, with an arm up on a table. Below it reads, Carmen Maria Machado. A black and white picture of a man with dark skin, slightly long black hair, and dark stubble. Below it reads, Umair Kazi. A brown trans woman with slightly longer black curly hair, wearing a black sweater, with her arms crossed. She is standing in front of a brick wall. Below it reads, Dr. Alex Hanna. A fourth picture is on the right: a woman with brown skin, shoulder-length black hair, is smiling and looking at the camera. She is wearing a chunky necklace and a black t-shirt. Below it reads, Moderated by Vauhini Vara. Below the images, it reads: Thursday, March 5, 12:10 PM. Room 310. Sponsored by The Author's Guild. The Author's Guild is represented by its logo.

Thursday @ AWP 2026! Join Carmen Maria Machado, Umair Kazi, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and myself as we discuss how to Resist AI in Writing and Teaching. Sponsored by @authorsguild.org.

12:10 PM in Room 310. See you in Baltimore!

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Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal uses, such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research.

So cool that @authorsguild.org has a place where members can go to certify that they did not use AI in writing their books... go.authorsguild.org/account/huma...

Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not...

If you're a member of the @authorsguild.org and you write your own books (as opposed to letting AI do it), I recommend you take advantage of their Human Authored Certification. It's a free member benefit and costs a mere $10/title for nonmembers.

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What Do You Want to Know About a Book Before You Read It? - Reactor How much (or little) info do you need before you pick up a book?

The constant problem with jacket copy, if there is one, is that it can’t be for everyone

And don’t miss our free legal advice at Booth #1043 on Thursday from 2-5!

If you can’t make the drop-in hours we’ll have an AG lawyer in the booth throughout the conference so come when you can!

AWP26 Featured Event: Laura Lippman & Sujata Massey in Conversation with Angie Kim - The Authors Guild This event is sponsored by the Authors Guild. Join us to celebrate some of Baltimore’s greatest living authors as Laura Lippman and Sujata Massey appear in conversation with Angie Kim. After brief rea...

Also on Friday, Laura Lippman and Sujata Massey will appear in conversation with Angie Kim in a celebration of Baltimore’s greatest living authors

AWP26: Know Your Rights: What to Look for in Book Contracts - The Authors Guild This event is sponsored by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Literary Agents. Getting a book deal is always an exciting step in your career, but it’s important to protect your creative...

On Friday, we’re sponsoring an event alongside the Association of American Literary Agents on how to get the most out of your book deals by knowing your rights.

AWP26: Know Your Rights: What to Look for in Book Contracts - The Authors Guild This event is sponsored by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Literary Agents. Getting a book deal is always an exciting step in your career, but it’s important to protect your creative...

On Friday, we’re sponsoring an event alongside the Association of American Literary Agents on how to get the most out of your book deals by knowing your rights.

AWP26: How to Resist AI in Writing & Teaching - The Authors Guild This event is sponsored by the Authors Guild. Among practitioners and teachers of writing, a resistance to AI is taking all kinds of creative forms: organizing among colleagues to change language in p...

On Thursday, join Carmen Maria Machado, Vauhini Vara, Dr. Alex Hanna and Authors Guild Director of Policy and Advocacy Umair Kazi for a masterclass in resisting AI.

Attending AWP 2026? Here’s a megathread of all the Authors Guild panels, events and cool opportunities to watch out for.

Make sure to screenshot or bookmark and come say hi in person—we’d love to see you!

What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned? When a friend wrote to me some months ago that he’d heard a book of mine had been banned, I felt a surge of excitement. I’m not proud of this. The banning of a book is hardly a badge of literary me…

The will to ban a text is a signal of impact: it indicates that a creative product presents a perceived insult either to power structures or to the self-appointed guardians of an ideology or status quo. In other words, the gesture of banning suggests social relevance

Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs? One of the most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the major models

PDFs are notoriously difficult for machines to parse, in part, because they were never meant to be read by them

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time.

So what can we do? This shifting definition of first amendment rights to protect the government, not the people, is a stunning degradation of free speech rights. And it's happening in the dark. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell everyone you can. Authors Against Book Bans Freedom to Read Freedom to Create

The tl;dr version: HB 1069 mandates that materials be removed from school classrooms and libraries if an objection is filed alleging that the material is pornographic, harmful to minors, or depicts or describes sexual conduct. It has led to the removal and rejection of a lot of books by districts in a bid to avoid legal trouble and get out ahead of any public objections. Proponents of book censorship are wielding it like a club against school districts, and parents opposed to it have little recourse. Parents, authors, and publishers filed suit in August 2024. It is currently in the appeals process, being heard in the Eleventh Circuit U.S. District Court.

While this is a Florida law and legal suit, 21 states recently filed their own amicus brief in support of the law and the Florida State Board of Education: Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia What is this bill and why does it matter?

There is currently an ongoing legal case in Florida regarding House Bill 1069 (passed in 2023) To defend this bill, the State of Florida is arguing that public school libraries are controlled by the government and considered "government speech," so they are exempt from the First Amendment and can censor anything they disagree with. They classify public school libraries as a "government benefit" that they are not required to provide.