Submissions
Adapted and Original Screenplay Submissions
Drama, Comedy and New TV Series Submissions
TV-Radio Writing Award Script Submissions
Paul Selvin Award
Documentary Screenplay Award
New Media Writing Awards
Videogame Writing Award
SUBMISSIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE 2013 WRITERS GUILD AWARDS
Adapted and Original Screenplay Submissions
Read rules and submit online:
Adapted and Original Screenplay Submissions
Drama, Comedy and New TV Series Submissions
Read rules and submit online:
Drama, Comedy and New TV Series Submissions
TV-Radio Writing Award Script Submissions
To submit a script for the Writers Guild of America 2013 Television-Radio Writing Awards, please refer to these eligibility rules.
Use the following link to submit your script online:
Television-Radio Writing Awards Script Submissions
Or download the entry form here. (pdf)
Paul Selvin Award
The Board of Directors has established the Paul Selvin Award to be given “to that member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to whose defense Paul Selvin committed his professional life.” Entries are now being accepted and must be received no later than 5:30 p.m. Friday, October 12, 2012. To submit a script for the WGAW Paul Selvin Award, please refer to these eligibility rules.
Use the following link to submit your script online:
Or download the entry form here. (pdf)
Documentary Screenplay Award
To be eligible for entry, films must have been exhibited theatrically in Los Angeles or New York for at least one week during 2012. Scripts need not be written under WGA jurisdiction. Please refer to these eligibility rules.
A writer who wrote the script and received credit on the film may submit a script for consideration. At the time the script is submitted, all credited writers on the film must be or apply to become members of the WGAW Nonfiction Writers Caucus or the WGAE Independent Film Caucus.
The deadline for submission is 5:30p.m. on Friday, November 16, 2012.
Download the Documentary Screenplay Award entry form here. (pdf)
Download the Nonfiction Writers Caucus application here. (pdf)
New Media Writing Awards
ORIGINAL: To be eligible for entry, an original stand alone new media program or original episode(s) written for a new media series must have first been exhibited on a new media platform between December 1, 2011 and November 30, 2012. For this purpose a new media platform is defined as the Internet via a major video sharing site or unique URL, mobile devices such as cellphones or PDAs, or any other established new media platform. Only work that was written and produced under a WGA collective bargaining agreement and for which the Guild has determined the writing credits may be submitted. Writers may submit either one stand alone new media program or up to five episodes of a single new media series. The award will be given to the credited writer(s) of the submitted program/episode(s), not to the series. Please refer to these eligibility rules. The submission deadline is 5:30 p.m. PST on Friday, November 16, 2012.
DERIVATIVE: To be eligible for entry, a derivative stand alone new media program or derivative episode(s) written for a new media series must have first been exhibited on a new media platform between December 1, 2011 and November 30, 2012. For this purpose a new media platform is defined as the Internet via a major video sharing site or unique URL, mobile devices such as cellphones or PDAs, or any other established new media platform. Only work that was written and produced under a WGA collective bargaining agreement and for which the Guild has determined the writing credits may be submitted. Writers may submit either one stand alone new media program or up to five episodes of a single new media series. The award will be given to the credited writer(s) of the submitted program/episode(s), not to the series. Please refer to these eligibility rules. The submission deadline is 5:30 p.m. PST on Friday, November 16, 2012.
Use the following link to submit your entry online:
Or download the entry form here. (pdf)
Videogame Writing Award
To be eligible for entry, games must have been originally released between December 1, 2011 and November 30, 2012; subsequent release dates for different platforms do not qualify. Work that was not produced under WGA jurisdiction may be submitted. Please refer to these eligibility rules. The submission deadline is 5:30 p.m. on Friday, November 30, 2012.
Download the Videogame Writing Award entry form here. (pdf)
Download the Videogame Writers Caucus application here. (pdf)
