Thursday 8 October 2026 – The Australian Writers’ Guild is pleased to celebrate the eight emerging writers selected as national finalists for The Next Brilliant Career, an initiative created by Netflix ANZ in partnership with the AWG and Australia’s eight State and Territory Screen Agencies. Congratulations to: Representing every state and territory across Australia, the…
Continue readingFriday 4 September – The Australian Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce the 12 screenwriters who have been selected to participate in First Break VIC in-person, a unique professional development workshop 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 one-day in-person workshop…
Continue reading1 September 2026 – As part of your Guild’s effort to recoup historical unpaid superannuation, we ask that members who have been commissioned to write a television script by any of the following production companies please contact industrial@awg.com.au. The production companies are: The Australian Tax Office (ATO)and Creative Workplaces have recently published guidance confirming script writers’ entitlement to superannuation. A…
Continue reading18 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…
Continue reading11 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…
Continue readingTo 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…
Continue readingIt is with great sadness that the Guild writes of the recent passing of writer, director, author, industry advocate, and a long-time active Victorian AWG member, Mark Poole. Mark filled many Guild roles over some four decades, including Victorian Committee member; Victorian Chair; Victorian rep on the then Management Committee; Victorian Vice-President on the NEC; and…
Continue reading17 July 2026 – Recent advice published by the ATO and Creative Workplaces reinforces that writers who are engaged by production companies to write scripts are entitled to superannuationunder the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth) (the Act). The ATO states that if you have been paid to provide a service that is required for a performance to occur, including plays or entertainment, then…
Continue readingWednesday 15 July 2026 – The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and Authorship Collecting Society Australia Aotearoa (ACSAA) welcome today’s speech from Prime Minister Albanese re-affirming the Government’s position that Australia’s creators, and the laws that support us, are a key part of our nation’s future. A new Office of AI and Australian Standards can build on the…
Continue readingFriday 3 July 2026 – The Australian Writers’ Guild is aware of a number of generative artificial intelligence (AI) script coverage services claiming to offer fast feedback and analysis of scripts for a fee. These services do not employ script assessors. Seeking feedback on a script is a necessary and valuable part of the writing process….
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