The Australian Writers’ Guild is delighted that playwright, actor and screenwriter Matthew Whittet’s play Kindness will be translated into French for international audiences by the Paris-based Maison Antoine Vitez. The theatre translation organisation, which specialises in contemporary plays, has received funding via Creative Australia’s Translation Fund for Literature. The fund supports international and Australian publishers in translating works,…
Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay Entertainment company) and Screen Australia have today announced the Early Career Writers Program, supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild. A collaboration between Endemol Shine Australia and Screen Australia, the initiative will provide high-level training in a global calibre script department to four early to mid-career Australian writers who have the potential…
The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) welcomes Screen Australia’s key principles for the approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a positive step forward for the agency and wider industry. AWG and AWGACS Group CEO Claire Pullen said: “We’re pleased to see these guidelines provide a clear direction on what the ethical use of AI should look like in…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the Government’s proposed guardrails for the safe and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in high-risk settings, which would include mandatory transparency around provenance of data and how datasets are used in AI systems. AWG and AWGACS Group CEO Claire Pullen said: “These guardrails are a positive step towards establishing a regulatory framework that supports the…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the Government’s proposed guardrails for the safe and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in high-risk settings, which would include mandatory transparency around provenance of data and how datasets are used in AI systems. AWG and AWGACS Group CEO Claire Pullen said: “These guardrails are a positive step towards establishing a regulatory framework that supports the…
The 57th Annual AWGIE Awards are officially open for entries! The AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of Australian performance writers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape. Entries are open to eligible screen, stage, interactive and audio works that finished principal photography or production or had a first performance between 1 January 2023 and…
The Australian Writers’ Guild supports the journalists at Nine Publishing in their current negotiations and in their decision to take strike action. “The rights and conditions of journalists underpin a healthy and thriving media industry,” said AWG Executive Director Claire Pullen. “We support the journalists at Nine Publishing in taking a stand for better wages, more…
The Australian Writers’ Guild congratulates screenwriters Evlin DuBose and Cameron Williams who have tonight been announced as the winners of the 2024 Emerging Writers’ Awards. The Awards were announced tonight to a packed and buzzing room of senior writers, producers, industry folk and Guild members, who spent the evening mixing with the talented cohort of winning and shortlisted writers. Evlin DuBose took home the Long Form Award…
The David Williamson Prize-winning play Horizon will return to the stage later this month at the Brisbane Powerhouse, running from July 31–August 10. Commissioned by Playlab Theatre and written by award-winning playwright Maxine Mellor, Horizon is an AWGIE award-winning script exploring the current political and social climate of Australia and where we are headed as a nation — who…
The use of AI in the creative sector is a critical issue for writers. Without immediate regulation, its use poses an existential threat to the Australian creative industries and audiences. We’ve made a joint industry submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence to highlight these threats and propose a framework for the safe and responsible use of AI….
