Industry & Policy

As well as providing services to individual members, the AWG is also about enhancing Australian performance writing as a whole.

In this role, the AWG’s vision is to see performance writing and performance writers thrive as a dynamic and integral part of Australian storytelling; shaping, reflecting and enhancing Australia’s cultural voice in all its diversity.

We work closely with our experienced and highly-regarded members to undertake research, lobbying, advocacy and strategic initiatives on behalf of screen, stage, radio and interactive writers collectively.

The AWG is the voice of performance writers in federal and state governments, industry bodies, sector organisations and the wider community, promoting the role, recognition and reward for performance writing in Australian society and culture.

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). 
 

2025 John Hinde Award for Sci-Fi writing opens for entries

Entries for the 2025 John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing are now open! Funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, the award offers $10,000 in prize money to be shared among winning writers.

AWG welcomes recommendation from Digital Workplaces Inquiry

The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendation from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training that would see developers required to prove that their AI systems have not been trained using creatives’ intellectual property.  

Industrial alert: Protect yourself against scams

The Australian Writers’ Guild has received reports of scams targeting screenwriters and book authors.

2025 minimum rates and contracts now available on the AWG website

Industrial contracts and rates available to AWG members have been updated for 2025, and are effective as of 1 January 2025.