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Nominations for the 2026 Tinniswood Award are now closed  Nominations are now open for the 2026 Tinniswood Award for audio drama scripts broadcast or made available online between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025. Established by WGGB and Society of Authors in memory of the writer Peter Tinniswood, the award celebrates the very best in audio drama writing. The £3,000 cash prize, sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, will be...

We have become aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without their consent in LibGen, a pirated books database that Meta has used to train AI. The WGGB have been campaigning and lobbying for increased protection for writers, to stop companies from taking their work without permission or payment. To find out what we’ve been doing and what you can do to help the campaign, please check out our campaign page. What ca...

Affiliate Members of WGGB include agents, technical advisers, researchers or consultants engaged in a professional relationship with writers, plus Higher Educational professionals working in creative writing departments. The cost of Affiliate Membership is £330 per year. Please note: you can only pay in instalments by Direct Debit. To join by DD please download this form. Find out about Affiliate Member benefits here. JOIN (With ...

WGGB launched its free series of online events for writers during the pandemic and it has gone from strength to strength since then You can find details of upcoming sessions (and a selection of some of our previous events) below, and also view videos (where we recorded sessions) of past events on our YouTube channel here. Closed captions are available for all our Zoom events. We do have occasional in-person events, and you can view upcoming event...

General: Equipment & Software Hookmark app  WGGB members are eligible for 20% off the Hookmark app for Mac users, which enables users to create links to files, emails, PDFs, notes, outlines, data files, figures etc, enabling friction-free research and drafting for writers. The discount applies to Hookmark Standard and Hookmark Pro. Follow this link and use WRITERS-GUILD-UK at checkout (Hookmark Standard and Pro can be used indefinitely. Software...

We offer regular, one-off discounts to all our members through our weekly ebulletin We also have a number of longstanding discounts and special offers. These include … Membership offers Free lifetime membership of Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society. All Full WGGB members are entitled to pay no joining fee for the Writers Guild of America East or West (if they meet membership eligibility criteria). This also applies to the New Zealand and ...

About our agreements WGGB ‘minimum terms agreements’ cover writers’ rates and rights in TV, theatre, audio and some areas of film. These are the minimum terms writers are entitled to – but you or your agent can negotiate more. Below you will find our agreements and rate cards grouped by craft area (in alphabetical order, underneath ‘Across our craft areas’). You can also use the search below to search by a specific craft area. If you want to chec...

We offer a range of benefits to our members, depending on your membership level Join your union and you will also help support our negotiating, campaigning and other work Join now See our member benefits chart   Full Member benefits: Free contract vetting, support and advice, weekly ebulletin, member discounts, member events (including free screenings), WGGB pension scheme, entry in the Find A Writer directory, Members’ Area of the website, free...

Thousands of books have been used without permission to develop AI systems. We’ve put together some joint guidance with the Society of Authors (SoA) so you know what to do if your works are among them, and what action you can take. In September, The Atlantic published a series of articles about Books3 – a vast, unlawfully obtained collection of books that have been used without permission to develop some of the most well-known artificial intellig...

Organised by the TUC, it is a campaigning week of activity where the trade union movement celebrates unions and the good that we do. Over the past two years unions have demonstrated their relevance and effectiveness in helping working people like never before. How to get involved Your stories are powerful and the TUC wants to tell as many as possible during HeartUnions week so others can benefit too. They are using the StoryTagger mobile app to ...

WGGB is delighted to present its annual awards for the encouragement of new writing at a special online event on Thursday 8 April 2021. This year, which marks the 16th annual Olwen Wymark Awards, has seen an unprecedented number of nominations and a record number of recipients (see the full list of winners). Award winners range from high-profile playwrights to community drama teachers, mentors, artistic directors, producers, dramaturgs, actors, c...

Screenwriters whose work has been aired on BBC iPlayer have received royalties of nearly £1 million, according to figures just released by Writers Digital Payments (WDP). The not-for-profit company, set up to make sure that TV writers get properly paid when their work is shown online, is owned by WGGB and the Personal Managers’ Association (the trade body for agents representing writers, actors and directors). WDP’s most recent payout to BBC writ...

Our links with the British film industry, organisations and screening facilities in the capital, mean we are able to offer WGGB members screenings and/or Q&As of upcoming film releases Members will be informed of full details of screenings via email/the weekly ebulletin. All the screenings are offered by third parties, and are not WGGB-organised events, or offered exclusively to our members. We always check with the event organiser whether the sc...

1. Don’t be afraid to talk about money. Writing may be your passion but it is also your business. It’s not a hobby. 2. If you have an agent tell the producer they must speak to your agent before anything is agreed. 3. Let your agent know that you can’t afford to work for free. If your agent encourages you to work for free you may need a new agent. 4. Always be polite but firm. 5. If a producer wants to shop your idea around without taking an opti...

This section features videos of events that are available to WGGB members only. Where next for UK comedy? The comedy industry in the UK is facing severe challenges, reduced commissioning and recent cancellations of studio comedy entertainment. Scripted comedy has recently been described by Ofcom as an “at risk” genre across public service broadcasters. So, what is next for comedy writers? Writers Joel Morris (Cunk on Life, Charlie Brooker’s Scree...