Thursday 31 July 2025: Screen Australia and the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) have announced the seven participants selected for The Creators 2025, a dynamic career acceleration program for high-calibre Australian screenwriters. The seven participants in The Creators program are: Building on the success of Years one and two, this third year will provide participants with high-level showrunner training,…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild congratulates screenwriters Mads McRae and Georgia Struckel, who have been announced as the winners of the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Awards. The Awards were announced tonight to a packed room of senior writers, producers, industry folk and Guild members, who spent the evening mixing with the talented cohort of winning and shortlisted writers. Mads McRae won the Long Form Award for her feature film Grave’s End. Following…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild congratulates screenwriters Jesse Laurie and Charlie Milne, who have been announced as the winners of the 2025 John Hinde Award. Jesse Laurie took home the award in the produced category for his sci-fi feature Zero, a gripping drama in which a wounded astronaut grapples with disorientation, a dwindling air supply, and his inner demons. The judges described Zero as “a skillfully crafted feature film which…
Continue readingA 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…
Continue readingCongratulations 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…
Continue readingScreen 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…
Continue readingScreenworks and the Australian Writers’ Guild have today announced the selected participants of Seeding Storytellers with 17 emerging First Nations screenwriters selected for the program which will guide them to become note-takers in a writers’ room. The selected participants are Annidette Puni (Sydney, NSW), Angelina Hurley (Brisbane, QLD), Aria Kitchener (Tweed Heads, NSW), Barbara Hostalek (Perth, WA), Colleen…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild is excited to announce In the Writers’ Room, a unique professional development workshop designed to give early career screenwriters in WA an insight into how a professional writers’ room operates. From the basics of what a writers’ room is and does through to the less obvious topic of etiquette in a room, it will give…
Continue readingThe John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing was established to encourage, reward and foster creativity in the development and showcasing of Australian science-fiction writing for film, television, web series and interactive media. Funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, the winning writers will share in a $10,000 prize pool. There are two…
Continue readingThe 2025 Emerging Writers’ Awards are officially open for entries! Dedicated to uncovering the hottest new scripts and writing talent across Australia, these awards are a purpose-built and industry-recognised opportunity for AWG Associate and Student members to have their work showcased directly to industry decision-makers. The Emerging Writers’ Awards are open to screen and stage writers with an unproduced script of any genre across film, television,…
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