AWGIES to honour small screen writers
The Australian Writers' Guild will honour Chris Lilley, Ian David, and the late Denise Morgan at this week's AWGIES.
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The annual AWGIE Awards will be held this week in Sydney, recognising the best in Australian performance writing.
The Australian Writers’ Guild will honour three writers of the small screen: Chris Lilley, Ian David, and the late Denise Morgan.
Chris Lilley (We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High, Angry Boys) will be awarded the Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy.
Ian David (Blue Murder, Killing Time) will be awarded The Richard Lane Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild. David served as AWG President from 2000 to 2003, during which the Australian Writers` Guild Authorship Collecting Society was formed, collecting almost $5 million for its members in the last four years.
Respected television writer and script producer, the late Denise Morgan will be posthumously awarded the Hector Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Craft in the Field of Script Editing. Morgan worked on numerous Australian productions including Matlock Police, Home and Away, Embassy, The Flying Doctors, Murder Call, Stingers, Water Rats, Blue Heelers, All Saints and Prisoner. She got her start working for Crawford Productions.
The AWGIES will be held on Friday night at Doltone House, Darling Island, Sydney.
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Congratulations Ian…just saw this. Still have fond memories of our Sunday Poets group in Perth in 70s and your various poetry plays. Also recall you selling wwritten-on-the-spot personalised parchment poems at Fremantle Markets for $1 – still have a portion of one though much cockroach-eaten. Be good to catch up again sometime.
All three are very deserving of these awards. Congratulations