SBS, in partnership with Screen Australia, state and territory agencies Film Victoria, Screen Canberra, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, Screenwest and the South Australian Film Corporation, and with the assistance of the Australian Writers’ Guild, are launching the Emerging Screenwriters’ Incubator: a new, nationwide initiative to support the development of diverse fiction writing talent in the Australian screen sector.
The Australian Writers' Guild is working in collaboration with the Games Committee to understand more about the issues that games writers and narrative designers face in the sector. We need your help!
Industrial contracts and rates available to AWG members have been updated for 2021, with rates increased with CPI (as of 1 January 2021). You can access the updated rates directly here.
Playwright Suzie Miller's critically acclaimed one-woman play Prima Facie has taken out the two highest honours at the Australian Writers' Guild's annual AWGIE Awards, winning the 2020 Major Award and the David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre.