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Our summer Member Networks are now open to book 🔹Challenging Ageism Network 🔹Deaf, Disabled + Neurodivergent Member Network 🔹Challenging Sexism Network 🔹Writers of Colour Network 🔹LGBT+ Network 🔹Challenging Class Privilege Network Check dates + register 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/wggb-member-...

We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Come to our free event in London on 13 Aug on editing videogames + hear from our expert panel @cashdecuir.bsky.social @hollynielsen.bsky.social @coreybrotherson.bsky.social + WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social 7-8.30pm (non-members welcome too!) Register forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Very happy to reveal I'll be part of @writersguildgb.bsky.social's panel discussing editing videogames on 13th August, alongside @hollynielsen.bsky.social, @cashdecuir.bsky.social & WGGB Videogames co-chair @flom.bsky.social. More info on how to join us: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

WGGB joined other unions and 150,000 marchers at London Trans+ Pride on Saturday - great to see our members there!

Just 10 days left to make a nomination for our 2026 Olwen Wymark Awards! WGGB members - if someone has given you exceptional encouragement in your theatre writing over the past year, now's your chance to honour them writersguild.org.uk/olwen-wymark...

Last week we launched a new guide to videogames writing contracts + we'll be giving out free copies at an event on 13 August at London South Bank University (7-8.30pm), hosted by WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social Find out more + book your free place forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Happy publication day to the 2027 editions of @writersandartists.bsky.social Yearbooks! They are packed with essential advice on the writing + publishing process and contain 1,000s of industry contacts, plus WGGB members get a 25% discount (code in the Members' Area of our website) bit.ly/44fuFju

Read, share, follow the advice. Thanks to all those involved in putting these together. Look after yourselves out there, all!

For all of us game writers - the WGGB has put together a free guide to help you parse your contracts! We're making documents like these to help writers navigate the turbulent waters of game dev. Use it to more confidently negotiate better contracts and working conditions!

Today we launch a new free guide for videogames writers on how to navigate your contracts to understand your employment status and to ensure fair and equitable terms Find out more + download the new guidelines 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/games-contra...

Writers' 'Green Handshake' free online launch event! Come along to hear from former WGGB Film Chair Tom Williams and Green Rider project manager Georgia Goggin 22 July, 5-6pm, Zoom Find out more and register 🔽 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

It was great to meet and chat with writers from the Yorkshire region on Saturday at our networking brunch to coincide with the first @yorkshirefringe.bsky.social, hosted by WGGB TV Chair @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social and Audio Co-Chair @nicobalders.bsky.social Thanks to all who came!

Playwrights working for the Royal Court in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the @nationaltheatre.org.uk are set to receive a 3% increase on minimum fees. Read more in The Stage 👇

2/ This is in addition to other improvements for playwrights secured over the past 12 months with individual theatres, including a significant uplift + new agreement for digital work at the National + a large increase in fees at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs writersguild.org.uk/3-rise-for-t...

1/ Playwrights commissioned by the Royal Court, RSC and National Theatre will receive a 3% uplift on minimum fees, thanks to WGGB’s negotiating team (the new rates are backdated to 1 April 2026)

Thanks to everyone who came to our free in-person workshop today on copyright and factual material and to our sponsor @alcs.co.uk Watch this space for more in-person training!

2/ These cuts will undoubtedly impact social mobility for young people, cut off pathways into the creative industries + undermine those very industries Creativity and the arts matter - Government must do better

1/ Impossible to square these cuts to creative + performing arts teaching grants with the Government's pledge to put the creative industries at the heart of its growth strategy www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...