43rd Annual AWGIE Awards - Call for Entries

26 November, 2009

The Australian Writers’ Guild 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards are now open for entries.

The AWGIE Awards are the Australian Writers' Guild annual awards for excellence in screen, stage, radio and new media writing. The AWGIEs are the only peer assessed awards for performance writers with judging based on the written script - the writer's intention - rather than the finished production.

AWG President Tim Pye says that “Once again the AWGIE Awards will recognise the extraordinary wealth of performance writing talent in Australia and the great works of imagination, craft and skill that have been created by our members over the past year.”

Over $100,000 in special prizes and fellowships will be presented at the awards including the $25,000 Kit Denton Fellowship which rewards courage and excellence in performance writing, the $25,000 FOXTEL Fellowship for television writers and the $15,000 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction. The recipient of the Major AWGIE, for Outstanding Australian Script of the Year, will receive the $10,000 Copyright Agency Limited Peer Recognition Prize. The 2009 Major AWGIE was awarded to Warwick Thornton for Samson and Delilah.

AWGIE winners in 2009 also included Patricia Cornelius for Tenderness - Slut, and Rachel Perkins and Louis Nowra for First Australians.

The AWG’s recognition of emerging talent continues in 2010 with the extremely popular Short Form and Long Form Monte Miller Awards. These awards for unproduced scripts by an associate member of the Guild are open to all areas of performance writing including film, television and stage and received over 200 entries for last year’s awards.

The 43rd AWGIE Awards will be presented in Melbourne on Friday 20 August 2010.

Entry to the 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards is open to financial members of the AWG and scripts must have been produced between 1 January and 31 December 2009. For entry forms and more information, including special prizes and fellowships, click here, email admin@awg.com.au or call 1300 552 228.

Entries for the Monte Milller Award close 5.00pm, Friday 5 March 2010.

Entries for all other categories close 5.00pm, Friday 13 March 2010.