Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

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Events

NSW

NSW Write Night: A Moody Pitch-mas

Join Phil Lloyd, the creator of A Moody Christmas and Population 11, as he sits down, live and in person, for a deep dive conversation on how to pitch well. When: Monday 1 June 2026, 6.30pm (for a 7pm start) Where: Royal Automobile Club of Australia, 89 Macquarie Street, Sydney Tickets: $10 for AWG members,…

News


AI note-taking in writers’ rooms

The Australian Writers’ Guild has received reports of production companies using generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to take notes in writers’ rooms, replacing note-takers.  Note-taking allows a new writer to contribute to a show and learn from experienced writers. It is a pathway to writing the crucial first script. Automated note-taking risks eliminating one of the few possible…

AWG announces 2026 First Break NSW participants  

Wednesday 22 April: The Australian Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce the 15 screenwriters who have been selected to participate in First Break NSW, a unique professional development program designed to give talented, aspiring screenwriters a leg up in the industry through practical training in note-taking and script coordinating. Delivered with support from Screen NSW, the three-day…

Has your work been used to train AI?

As part of the AWG’s ongoing work on Artificial Intelligence (AI), we’re looking into how much of our members’ work may have been used to train AI data sets.  To assist us in this work, we encourage members to take a look at this tool published by The Atlantic, and search the LibGen data set to see if your works appear…

Superannuation update for writers: 2026

10 April 2026 – Writers who are engaged by production companies to write scripts are entitled to superannuation under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth) (the Act). Section 12(3) of the Act states that if a person works under a contract that is “wholly or principally for the labour of the person” then that person is an employee of the other…

Image credits

Poor Things, by Tony McNamara, photograph: Searchlight Pictures. Prima Facie, by Suzie Miller, photograph: Helen Murray. Gordon (Patrick Brammall) and Ash (Harriet Dyer) in Colin from Accounts Season 2, photograph: Joel Pratley/Easy Tiger Productions/Binge/CBS/Screen NSW. Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, by Summerfall Studio. Little J and Big Cuz, image provided by Ned Lander.