We’ve changed the way that we ask members to update their ALCS accounts – members need to be aware of this.

Award-winning children’s writer Jamila Gavin reflects on CILIP’s efforts to address the widespread criticism of this year’s all-white Carnegie Medal longlist.

In the latest of our 40th anniversary profiles of ALCS members, we meet 28-year-old screenwriter Georgia Lester, whose credits include Skins, Hollyoaks and Youngers.

In its 40th year, in terms of both geography and genre, ALCS has the broadest membership of any UK writers’ organisation. Read on to find out more about who – and where – you are!

ALCS will pay out around £9.5 million to 25,000 members in September. Payments should reach members’ bank accounts by 27 September.

Some of the changes to your online account