WGGB is delighted to announce the shortlist for our annual awards, to be presented on Monday 16 January 2023 at the Royal College of Physicians in London.
The ceremony will be hosted by award-winning comedian, writer, actor, improviser and presenter Rachel Parris.
WGGB General Secretary Ellie Peers said: “What a fantastic list of talented screenwriters, playwrights, authors, audio dramatists, comedy and videogames writers, whose work has kept us entertained and informed, and uplifted our spirits through the astonishing breadth and depth of their work. We look forward to celebrating and saluting them all at the Writers’ Guild Awards ceremony.”
The shortlist in 14 categories follows.
Best Long Form TV Drama
Slow Horses, Episode 1, ‘Failure’s Contagious’ by Will Smith
The Responder by Tony Schumacher
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Best Short Form TV Drama
Floodlights by Matt Greenhalgh
Four Lives by Neil McKay
Then Barbara Met Alan by Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr
Best Long Running TV Series
Coronation Street, Episode 10642/3 by Damon Alexis-Rochefort
Doctors, Episode 5, ‘Hello?’ by Toby Walton
Doctors, Series 22, Episode 88, ‘One Point Six Percent’ by Claire Bennett
Best TV Situation Comedy
Big Boys by Jack Rooke
Dead Canny by Anna Costello
Derry Girls by Lisa McGee
Best Children’s TV Episode
Dodger, Episode 9, ‘Dosh’ by Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery
The Beaker Girls, Episode 1, ‘The Ice Cream Thief’ by Emma Reeves
Jacqueline Wilson’s Little Darlings, Episode 1, ‘Destiny’ by Nathan Bryon
Best Radio Drama
End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan
Life Rights by Nicholas Meiklejohn
Waterloo Station by Katie Hims
Best Radio Comedy
Conversations From a Long Marriage by Jan Etherington
Raging Enigma by Chris Neill
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick
Best Writing in a Video Game
Citizen Sleeper by Gareth Damian Martin
Immortality by Sam Barlow, Barry Gifford, Amelia Gray & Allan Scott
The Quarry by Will Byles, Alex Farnham & Graham Reznick
Best Screenplay
Ali & Ava by Clio Barnard
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris by Carroll Cartwright, Tony Fabian, Keith Thompson & Olivia Hetreed
Munich – The Edge of War by Ben Power
Best First Screenplay
Passing by Rebecca Hall
Pirates by Reggie Yates
The Duke by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman
Best Play
The House of Shades by Beth Steel
The P Word by Waleed Akhtar
Wonder Boy by Ross Willis
Best Play for Young Audiences
Braids by Olivia Hannah
How to Save the Planet When You’re a Young Carer and Broke by Nessah Muthy
The It by Vivienne Franzmann
Best First Novel
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie
Braver by Deborah Jenkins
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
Best Online Comedy
Hostage Negotiation by Kieran Murphy
Mary Shelley Writes Frankenstein by Eleanor Morton and Christian Brighty
The Room Next Door – Boris Johnson Resignation Speech by Michael Spicer
Sponsors
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is the lead sponsor of the Writers’ Guild Awards this year. Our other sponsors: BBC, ITV, Script Angel, HW Fisher, Articy and Nick Hern Books.
You can find out about the Writers’ Guild Awards, including a full archive of past winners, here.
For further information email awards@writersguild.org.uk
Photo of guests at a previous Writers’ Guild Awards ceremony: Matt Writtle
