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Call for Entries: John Hinde Awards for Excellence in Science Fiction

The Australian Writers’ Guild is again offering $10,000 for the best script in science fiction.

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Entries have opened for 2016 John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction screenwriting for Australian Writers Guild members.

The awards, funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, offers $10,000 for the best produced script and professional support for the best unproduced script submitted each year.

The award was established to encourage, reward and foster creativity in the development and showcasing of science fiction writing for feature film, short film, television, radio and interactive media. It also provides an avenue for unproduced works to enter.

Jesse O’Brien, the 2015 winner in the Produced category for his screenplay Arrowhead, says, “We’re only a few movies away from a significant genre resurgence and if Arrowhead can inspire the imaginations of other writers, then it has done the very best thing movies can do,” he says. “Thank you to John Hinde for leaving this treasure for us to find, and to the AWG for presenting it.”

Entries close August 22nd.

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