Writer Stephanie Westwood has been named winner in the unproduced category of the AWG’s John Hinde Award, for a moving and naturalistic sci-fi game. You Can Survive a Rip Current, the only interactive script in the shortlist, was chosen from seven outstanding science-fiction projects spanning film, TV and audio. Westwood will receive $5,000 in script development funding and…
Continue readingThe Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting has been developed to discover and celebrate the best new scripts among Australian playwrights. The Prize invites playwrights to submit unproduced plays across two categories: The Prize is open to full and associate members. The most outstanding scripts across both categories will share in $60,000 in prize money, and their scripts will be made eligible for…
Continue readingThirteen writers have been shortlisted for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing. The shortlisted projects were selected from close to 200 entries across three categories, with scripts ranging from audio dramas and interactive projects through to television pilots, shorts, feature films and web series. The annual award, first…
Continue readingThe 2024 Emerging Writers’ Awards (previously the Monte Miller 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…
Continue readingCalling all sci-fi screenwriters! The John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing is now open, celebrating the development and showcasing of sci-fi screenwriting for feature film, television, web series, audio and interactive media. Funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, the award offers $10,000 per year for the best produced script and…
Continue readingScreenwriters Jane Jago and Kayti Murphy have been announced as the winners of the Australian Writers’ Guild’s Monte Miller Awards, the premier awards for unproduced scripts in Australia. Returning to Melbourne for the first time in three years, the Awards were announced to a packed room of buzzing industry decision-makers, producers and Guild members, who spent the evening…
Continue readingFifteen new projects have been announced as the shortlist for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 2023 Monte Miller Awards, to be presented next month in Melbourne. The shortlisted projects were selected from over 400 entries across two categories, with scripts ranging from animated dramas and thrilling features to sharp television and web concepts and short horror films. For the first time in three years, the winners…
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