The work of collecting payments for Australian performance writers goes from strength to strength, the AWGACS annual meeting was told. Tim Pye, chairman of the Australian Writers Guild Authorship Collecting Society, told its annual meeting in Sydney on 21 May 2015 that AWGACS now had almost 1,500 m...
More The annual meeting of the Australian Writers Guild has approved a new Code of Conduct for television writers. The new code was launched at the AWG Annual General Meeting in Sydney on 21 May 2015. AWG Vice President and chair of the Guild’s Television Committee Mac Gudgeon says that, for the f...
More 9 -11 March 2016. Phillip Island, Victoria The Australian Writers Guild has announced that the 2016 National Screenwriters Conference will be hosted in Victoria from 9-11 March, with the theme “What’s the Story: The writer in the picture”.AWG Executive Director Jacqueline Elaine said they hope to at...
More The coming year will witness major battles for Australian film, television and theatre writers, the president of the Australian Writers Guild has warned.Addressing members at the AWG annual meeting in Sydney, Jan Sardi told members that while much progress had been made in advancing the interests of...
More Former Australian Writers Guild president Tim Pye and South Australian representative Andrew Bovell have stepped down from the AWG National Executive Committee (NEC), with Alana Valentine appointed as the NSW representative. Tim Pye, who will continue to chair the AWG Authorship Collecting Soc...
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