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History

Administered by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Victorian branch, this award is given to a stage play, radio play, television script or screenplay of no more than 120 pages in script format.

Notes

  • Awarded for a play, screenplay or television script.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2015

winner Nathanial Moncrieff For 'The Burning'.

Year: 2014

winner Kuni Hawshimoto for Far From Cowra

Year: 2011

winner Willow Shakespeare David Halliday , 2011 single work drama Being a girl in an Elizabethan village isn’t easy, especially for prodigy Willow Shakespeare, who harbours big dreams of being the world’s first female playwright. Secretly enlisting the help of pirate-in-hiding Andrew Hathaway, Willow creates the myth of the greatest writer in history until ambition collides with secrets from the past that threaten to ruin everything.

Year: 2009

winner Sleepyhead Nathanial Moncrieff , 2009 single work drama

'Sleepyhead is a gothic tale of isolation and innocence. Recognisable as a family despite themselves; burnt; crippled; hideously drunk. Dead. On a remote rural property live a father and his two daughters. Strange phone calls in the night, the spectre of their dead mother, and then, one night, a visitor. ...

Developed with the support of ATYP's Fresh Ink program...' (MKA Theatre website)

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