THE AWGIE AWARDS
Since 1968 the Australian Writers’ Guild has presented the AWGIE Awards to recognise and reward excellence in writing for stage and screen. In the years since their inception the list of AWGIE Award winners has included writers whose stories have shaped our national culture including feature films, theatre, TV series and serials, miniseries and children’s animated programs, documentaries, games and interactive works and narrative podcasts.
The AWGIE Awards are unique in the industry in that they are the only writers’ awards judged solely by writers, and the judging is based on the written script – the writer’s intention rather than the finished product.
The awards night has become one of the industry events of the year and the esteem in which the Guild and the Awards are held is evident in the attendance of prominent guests including network heads, independent producers, directors, funding agencies, individual writers and politicians from all sides of government.
Entries for the 59th Annual AWGIE Awards will open in August 2026 for works that finished production or had their first performance in 2025.
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