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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Lunch Break: Inside the Writers’ Room

Jane Allen is a highly accomplished screenwriter, script producer, and script editor with over 20 years of experience in the film and television industry. Her recent credits include Last King of the Cross, Troppo, 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone, Halifax: Retribution, The Heights, The New Legends of Monkey and The Unlisted, which won the 2020 Prix Jeunesse International Award for Outstanding Children’s…
VIC

AWG VIC: Short Films Are Dead – Or Are They?

Why bother making a short? In the current era of web-series and TikTok – are shorts still relevant? This session focuses on the long and the short of it all (ha, see what we did there?).  Join filmmaker/actor Brett Cousins as he cross examines filmmaker/actor Katrina Mathers (Cherry Hands Media) in a deep-dive session about whether…
NSW

AWG Member Meetup

Calling all AWG members attending the Screenworks Regional to Global Conference! Please join our CEO Claire Pullen for a casual half-hour meetup at the Goanna Lennox cafe on the morning of Friday 20 June, just across the road from the conference venue. Claire will be speaking on the panel Taking the Wheel in the A.I. Fast Lane! at…

News


2025 Emerging Writers’ Awards shortlist announced

A shortlist of eight outstanding writers has been chosen from hundreds of entries in the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Awards  Eight emerging writers and their exciting unproduced projects have been shortlisted for the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Awards. Represented on the shortlist are gripping feature films, dramatic and comedic television pilots and a nail-biting short thriller. These eight…

Nine scripts and their writers shortlisted for the 2025 John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing 

Congratulations to the nine sci-fi writers who have been shortlisted from hundreds of entrants in the 2025 John Hinde Award. The shortlist – which covers entries across the produced and unproduced categories – includes seven feature films and two episodes of children’s television series Rock Island Mysteries.  The winning writers will be announced at an industry…

Writers’ entitlement to superannuation

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…

Applications open for The Creators program

Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) have announced applications are open for The Creators program. Now in its third year, The Creators is a career acceleration program for high-calibre, mid-career screenwriters to build toward the creation of their own shows.  Expanding upon the success of Years 1 and 2, Year 3 sees The Creators evolve to…

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.