Australian Writers’ Guild announces winner of South Australian What’s the Story? competition

The Australian Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce that screenwriter Alex Vickery-Howe has been selected as the winner of the 2016 What’s the Story? screenwriting competition for South Australian writers.Vickery-Howe was awarded the top prize for his feature film script Stupid Dead Boy, a dark com... More

Former Machine Gun Fellatio frontman takes out Australian Writers’ Guild’s Prime Time screenwriting competition

Matt Ford, frontman of 90s rock band Machine Gun Fellatio and an AFI-nominated screenwriter, has won the Australian Writers’ Guild’s Prime Time Television Screenwriting Competition. Ford was awarded the top prize for his television project Shining Light, a drama about a newly ordained Catholic Pries... More

Australian Writers’ Guild supports campaign by writingWA to push for greater funding for the literary arts

The peak body for writers in Western Australia, writingWA, has launched a campaign to urge the State Government to increase funding and recognition of the literary arts and literary organisations in Western Australia. The campaign, #writingmatters, calls on the Government to recognise the value West... More

Entries open for Australian Writers’ Guild’s 50th Annual AWGIE Awards

The Australian Writers’ Guild is calling for entries for the 50th Annual AWGIE Awards.Celebrating the very best in Australian stage and screen writing, the AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of Australian storytellers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landsca... More