Jane Harrison is an Australian First Nations playwright, novelist, literary festival director and researcher.
Debra Oswald is an Australian writer for film, television, stage, radio and children's fiction.
The AWGIE Awards are annual awards given by the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), for excellence in screen, television, stage, and radio writing. The 56th Annual AWGIE Awards ceremony is being held in Sydney on 15 February 2024.
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director. He created and was head writer for the 2022 TV series Significant Others. He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man. His most recent plays are a stage adaptation of Nevil Shute’s On The Beach, Mark Colvin's Kidney and Packer & Sons.
Merlinda Bobis is a contemporary Filipina-Australian writer and academic.
Alana Valentine is an Australian playwright, dramatist, librettist, and director working in theatre, film, opera and television.
Stephen John Sewell (1953) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his play and later (1998) screenplay of The Boys.
Peta Murray is an Australian writer, born in Sydney in 1958. Best known as a playwright, she also writes short stories and essays and is a freelance dramaturg, director and occasional performer. She leads a parallel life as a teacher of creative writing and late-blooming academic researcher, in the higher education sector.
Andrew Bovell is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.
Aliwa! is a play by Indigenous Australian playwright Dallas Winmar, and published by Currency Press in 2002.
Katharine Elizabeth Brisbane AM is an Australian journalist and publisher, well known for her writings as a theatre critic.
Suzie Miller is an Australian-British playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and lawyer. In April 2022, Miller made her West End debut with Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer.
That Deadman Dance is the third novel by Western Australian author Kim Scott. It was first published in 2010 by Picador (Australia) and by Bloomsbury in the UK, US and Canada in 2012. It won the 2011 Regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2011 ALS Gold Medal, the 2011 Kate Challis RAKA Award, the 2011 Victorian Prize for Literature, the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction and the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize and Book of the Year.
Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.
Tom Holloway is an Australian playwright, based in Melbourne as of May 2015.
Alma De Groen is an Australian feminist playwright, born in New Zealand on 5 September 1941.
Dallas Winmar is a Western Australian writer who first worked with Company B in 2001 on the staging of her play Aliwa!. This play was first showcased in Perth by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 1999 and 2000.
When the Rain Stops Falling is a play about family, secret legacies, betrayal and forgiveness seen across four generations and spanning two continents. The drama had its world premiere as part of the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Vivienne Cleven is an Indigenous Australian fiction author and writer of the Kamilaroi people. Her writing includes the novels Bitin’ Back and Her Sister’s Eye.
Barbara and the Camp Dogs is a rock musical by Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine with songs by Valentine, Yovich and Adm Ventoura. The work concerns Barbara, an Aboriginal pub singer trying to make it in Sydney, and her cousin and foster sister René. When the health of Barbara's mother deteriorates, they embark on a pilgrimage back home to country in the Northern Territory.
