Press Room
2024
May 13
2025 Writers Guild Awards Date Announced
The 2025 Writers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
May 10
WGA Members at Sesame Workshop Ratify New Contract
Members of Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West (WGA) at Sesame Workshop have overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with their employer.
April 19
Former WGAW Senior Executive Jane Nefeldt Dies at 71
Former Writers Guild of America West Senior Executive Jane Nefeldt died on April 16 in Hermosa Beach, CA, at age 71.
April 19
Sesame Workshop Writers Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract
Members of the WGAE and WGAW at Sesame Workshop and management reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement.
April 17
Writers of MTV’s Ridiculousness Negotiate First Contract After Unionizing Under the Writers Guild of America West
After filing for union recognition in July of 2023, the writers for MTV’s Ridiculousness have achieved their first contract.
April 16
Sesame Workshop Writers Authorize Strike
Members of the WGAE and WGAW at Sesame Workshop voted unanimously, with 100% participation, to authorize a strike if management does not agree to a fair new collective bargaining agreement before their current contract expires on April 19, 2024.
April 14
2024 Writers Guild Awards: Winners Announced
WGAW and WGAE announced the winners of the 2024 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional categories during concurrent ceremonies.
April 02
Linda Bloodworth Thomason to Receive WGAW’s 2024 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement
Multiple Emmy-nominated television creator-writer, director, and producer Linda Bloodworth Thomason (Designing Women, Evening Shade) has been named the recipient of the WGAW Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement
March 26
Cord Jefferson to Receive WGAW’s 2024 Paul Selvin Award for American Fiction
Academy Award-winning writer Cord Jefferson has been named recipient of WGAW’s 2024 Paul Selvin Award in recognition of his writing of American Fiction, based on novel Erasure by Percival Everett.
March 21
Niecy Nash-Betts to Host WGAW’s 2024 Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles Ceremony
Emmy and NAACP Image Award-winning actress and producer Niecy Nash-Betts (iMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, The Rookie: Feds) is set to host the 2024 Writers Guild Awards L.A. show on Saturday, April 14 at the Hollywood Palladium.