NEW - 2009-2010 Writer Access Project Guidelines

This pilot program, which was launched out of the WGAW’s Diversity Department in early 2009 was designed to identify excellent, diverse writers with television experience, and to provide a resource for accessing their work to showrunners, industry executives, agents and managers.

The Writer Access Project represents one effort by the WGAW to address the issue of underrepresentation of diverse writers on television writing staffs. Read detailed current statistics about employment of diverse writers in the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report Executive Summary.

The list of finalists and their spec scripts (divided into comedy and drama categories) is available below.  Each candidate’s original pilot is provided as an additional sample. You are invited to read and consider these excellent writers for staffing positions – for this season and in seasons to come.

Please note the following:

1. Qualified WGAW members were invited to submit their work in one of four diversity categories: minority writers and writers with disabilities; women writers; writers age 55 and over; and gay and lesbian writers.
    
2. Scripts, which underwent two rounds of judging, were read and scored on a blind submission basis by panels of WGAW members with extensive television writing experience, including current and former showrunners and writer-producers. Over 140 WGA members participated in the judging process.
    
3. All of the finalists do have television staffing experience.
    
4. For a complete list of credits, please contact the writers directly or the WGAW Credits Department at (323) 782-4528.

Note: Many writers have additional samples available – please contact writers directly to obtain them.