WRITERS' GUILD (GB) AWARDS 2023
-for work done from Oct 2022- Oct 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT, 20 Jun 2023
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards will be taking a pause for 2024.
The Writers’ Guild Awards have been celebrating UK writers and writing since they launched in 1961.
Through their long history, they have taken regular breaks, reflecting the changing work of the union and the contemporary landscape for writers.
The current series, was launched in 2015.
The ceremony has been instrumental in shining a spotlight on the work of the union and raising awareness of the issues currently facing writers in the UK.
The awards are funded entirely by sponsorship and we are hugely grateful to our lead sponsor ALCS, and our other regular sponsors over the past eight years, including BBC, ITV, Script Angel, Nick Hern Books and more.
WGGB members and officers have taken a leading role in the Writers’ Guild Awards, voluntarily sitting on juries to select nominees and winners, and in the organisation of the ceremony. The events organiser Ali Welsh has played a prominent role in the success of this latest incarnation.
Most recently WGGB Chair Lisa Holdsworth, Treasurer Gail Renard and Deputy Chairs Emma Reeves and William Gallagher, have overseen the annual event.
Since we relaunched the Writers’ Guild Awards in 2015, writers in the UK have been affected by Brexit, the Covid pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis, brutal arts funding cuts, the onward march of the streaming revolution and other challenges to their livelihoods. Spiralling inflation has also had an impact on the cost of running the awards ceremony itself.
The pause of the awards will enable us to re-evaluate the awards against this changing landscape, and how best they might support our work as a trade union – and the needs of our membership – in future.
Writers’ Guild Awards Jan 2024
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE RADIO DRAMA/COMEDY AWARDS:
Year refers to the broadcast date. The ceremony (and the official award date) is early in the following year (Jan / Feb).
BEST RADIO DRAMA
2022 Waterloo Station, by Katie Hims
2021 The Half Widow, by Avin Shah
2020 No Award
2019 Forest 404 by Timothy Atack
2018 Stone, Episode 7, by Alex Ganley
2017 The Things We Never Said, by Ming Ho
2016 Fat Little Thing by Lucy Gannon
2015 Quill by Tony Jones
2014 A Night Visitor, by Stephanie Jacob
2013 Tennyson and Edison, by David Pownall
2012 Pandemic, by John Dryden (Indie, Goldhawk)
2011 Troll, by Ed Harris
BEST RADIO COMEDY
2022 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick
2021 From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbon
2020 No Award
2019 Prepper by Caroline Moran and James J Moran
2018 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 'Seventy-Three Seconds' by Sarah Kendall
2017 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy ‘A Day In October’ by Sarah Kendall
2016 Double Acts – Series 1, Episode 5, “English for Pony Lovers” by John Finnemore
2015 White Rolls The Dice, by Deborah Frances.
2014 The Brig Society, by Marcus Brigstocke
2013 Susan Calman Is Convicted, by Susan Calman
2012 I, Regress, by Matt Berry
2011 Cabin Pressure, by John Finnemore
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