If you are currently displaced by the fires and need financial assistance, WGAW Good & Welfare emergency assistance loans are available. In this time of crisis, the Guild will expedite this assistance ...

Over the past decade, deregulation and the growing dominance of streaming video have laid the groundwork for a media landscape where just three companies—Disney, Amazon, and Netflix—are poised to be ...

The MBA is the collective bargaining agreement that covers most of the work done by WGA writers. If you have questions regarding the application or interpretation of its provisions, contact the ...

Creator Vince Gilligan said he was joking with Tom Schnauz that the two former X-Files writers might have to rent an RV and cook crystal meth if their stalled Hollywood careers didn't turn around.

The Board of Directors will consider requests from individuals or companies to be removed from the Strike/Unfair List. In such cases, the Board will examine the facts and circumstances concerning the ...

The WGAW's Inclusion and Equity Department works with producers, studio and network executives, and writers to increase employment opportunities and the availability of writing assignments for writers ...

The WGAW Committee of Black Writers' mission is to empower, increase visibility, and create career and networking opportunities for Black writers in Hollywood. Established in 1975.

These are the general guidelines for joining the Writers Guild, West (WGAW) through the WGA Low Budget Agreement 1. If I sell a screenplay or am employed to perform writer services under the WGA Low ...

The sitcom that stormed the gates of prevailing wisdom about TV and the over-50 set. Susan Harris, with husband Paul Junger Witt, had become a proven hit-maker thanks to Benson and Soap; this time she ...

Asked how he'd been able to be so controversial on All in the Family, creator Norman Lear said to the WGAW website in 2009: "I don't really know how to explain it. It took me three years to get All in ...

Welcome to the WGAW Start Button. In addition to working on your desktop it will also run on mobile devices. The Start Button will enable you to: Inform the Guild when writers begin working on a step ...

This report from the WGAW shines a light on failed antitrust policy through a review of five mega-mergers in the media and telecommunications industry: Comcast and NBCUniversal; AT&T and DirecTV; AT&T ...