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Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Join or Renew Membership

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Join or Renew Membership

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Join or Renew Membership

Protecting and Promoting Writers’ Rights

On screen, on stage, on air

Join or Renew Membership
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Become an AWG member and access exclusive benefits and resources.

59th Annual AWGIE Awards

Entries are open for the Annual AWGIE Awards

The Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize

Enter the 2026 Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting.

Industrial, Rates and Contracts

Click here to access rates, contracts and industrial resources.

Why Join Us

The Australian Writers’ Guild continues to fight against unfair treatment of writers both for the writers’ sake and in support of a healthy industry.

We are negotiating new industrial terms and conditions and have developed a new range of model contracts and minimum recommended terms and conditions. Our service for members ups the ante on contract negotiations and adherence. Solidarity is fundamental to winning these battles. 

Support the guild that works hard for you and your fellow writers, and call on our services to fight for what you are worth.

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Join the Australian Writers’ Guild today to access exclusive benefits and resources. Be part of the community of writers fighting for writers’ rights and fair remuneration.

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Events

Online

Lunch Break: Updates from ACSAA

LUNCH BREAK: ACSAAWhat are secondary royalties? Where do they come from and how do you receive them? Next month on Lunch Break, join Molly Ulm, Director of Industry and Operations at the Authorship Collecting Society Australia Aotearoa (ACSAA), to learn more about what you need to do to protect your right to secondary royalties. Molly…
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About Us

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The Australian Writers’ Guild is the professional association representing writers for stage, screen, audio and interactive and has protected and promoted their creative and professional interests for more than 60 years.

The Guild’s vision is to see performance writing and performance writers thrive as a dynamic and integral part of Australian storytelling, shaping, reflecting and enhancing the Australian cultural voice in all its diversity.

News

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18 August 2026

59th Annual AWGIE Awards open for entries

18 August 2026 – The AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of Australian performance writers and their contribution to Australian culture and the arts.  Entries are open for eligible screen, stage, interactive and audio works that finished principal photography or production or had a first performance between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 (please check individual categories…
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11 August 2026

Meet our 2026 First Break VIC Online Participants

11 August 2026 – The Australian Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce the 11 screenwriters who have been selected to participate in First Break VIC online, 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 VicScreen, the three-day online…
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4 August 2026

The Next Brilliant Career: Netflix Launches Nationwide Search for Australia’s Next Great Screenwriter

To celebrate the upcoming release of My Brilliant Career and the legacy of pioneering author Miles Franklin, Netflix ANZ, in partnership with the Australian Writers’ Guild and Australia’s eight State and Territory Screen Agencies, is today launching ‘The Next Brilliant Career’. The initiative invites emerging Australian writers who identify as women or non-binary to submit original, authentically-Australian…
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23 July 2026

Meet the 2026 Emerging Writers’ Award Winners

The Australian Writers’ Guild congratulates playwright Anna Lyon and screenwriter Patrick George, who have been announced as the winners of the 2026 Emerging Writers’ Awards. The Awards were announced tonight to a packed room of senior writers, producers, industry folk and Guild members, who spent the evening mixing with the talented cohort of winning and shortlisted writers.  Playwright Anna Lyon took home the Long Form award for her play Gravida Five, a tragicomedy…
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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.

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