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AWG and Scripted Ink. receive Screen Australia Enterprise funding to develop new generation of Australian screenwriters and showrunners


The Australian Writers’ Guild and Scripted Ink. are excited to announce they have been funded through Screen Australia’s Enterprise Industry fund for their screenwriting development initiative, The Writers’ Room Project.The Writers’ Room Project is an innovative and market-responsive collaboration b...
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Australian Writers' Guild and Open Channel announce shortlist for New Writers' Script Competition


The Australian Writers’ Guild and Open Channel are excited to announce the shortlist for the New Writers’ Script Competition.

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Prime Time competition heats up


The Australian Writers’ Guild’s Prime Time screenwriting competition has received more than 500 entries, making it one of Australia’s most hotly contested writing competitions.

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AWG congratulates playwright Joanna Murray-Smith following inaugural Mona Brand writing award win


Congratulations to Melbourne playwright Joanna Murray-Smith for winning the State Library of New South Wales’ inaugural $30,000 Mona Brand Award for outstanding writing for the stage or screen by an Australian woman.

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Screenwriter of acclaimed Indigenous superhero series Cleverman wins 2016 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction


Michael Miller, screenwriter of the ABC’s acclaimed Indigenous superhero series, Cleverman, has won the $10,000 Australian Writers’ Guild’s 2016 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction. Miller took home Australia’s richest sci-fi sceenwriting prize for episode five of the series, which aired on ABC TV ...
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