Press Room
2024
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.
March 19
Walter Hill to Receive WGAW’s 2024 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Legendary screenwriter, director, and producer Walter Hill—who wrote or co-wrote The Getaway, The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Last Man Standing, and Dead For A Dollar among many other films—has been named the recipient of the WGAW’s 2024 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
March 14
WGA Negotiating Committee Co-chairs Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman Named WGAW’s 2024 Morgan Cox Award Honorees for Guild Service
2023 WGA Negotiating Committee co-chairs Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman have been named joint recipients of the WGAW Morgan Cox Award in recognition of outstanding services to the Guild for their leadership through the 2023 MBA negotiations and 148-day strike.
February 21
2024 Writers Guild Awards Nominations Announced
The WGAW and WGAE have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during 2023.
January 03
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series Moves to the 75th Emmy Awards Telecast
The Television Academy, Fox and the WGA are happy to announce they have reached an agreement to include the Writing for a Variety Series category in the 75th Emmy Awards telecast.