Both the Shortlist and the Longlist for the Unproduced category can be found below. Pathways has been developed to showcase the writers of scripts which display high potential for production to the broader industry. The Guild would therefore like to attribute special recognition to Hugh Sullivan’s The Infinite Man, a comedy-romance about a man whose attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when he traps his lover in an infinite loop.Ĭommendations also go to the Shortlist for the Unproduced category who are now inducted into the AWG’s Pathways Program. The entries to this year’s John Hinde Awards were of exceptional calibre and the judges for the Awards wrestled with their final decision. Min Min is a story of four carefree travellers who speed across the Nullabor Plain to find the perfect surf break but their night time journey is cut terrifyingly short when they are hunted by a strange, deadly light in the sky – the Min Min.Īs winner of the Unproduced category, Simon Butters was a special guest of the Fantastic Planet Sci-Fi Festival and will have the opportunity to meet with and have his script read by a number of experienced genre producers. Min Min written by South Australian screenwriter, Simon Butters, was selected the inaugural winner of the Unproduced category. Predestination centres on a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) who, on his final time-travelling assignment, must stop The Fizzle Bomber, the one criminal that has always managed to elude him, from killing 10,000 New Yorkers. Thanks to a generous bequest from legendary Australian film critic John Hinde, the AWG presents the John Hinde Awards for Science Fiction to both a produced and unproduced script to encourage, reward and foster creativity in the development and showcasing of exceptional science fiction writing for feature film, short film, television, radio and interactive media.Ĭritically acclaimed as an entrancingly strange time-travel saga, Predestination, written by Queensland’s Spierig Brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, claimed the $10,000 cash prize for the Produced category. Our payment is $ words. Send all non-fiction and queries to Wood If all you have is an idea, then a little encouragement is all you will need. So if there’s something going on (or did go on) in the world of SF, fantasy and horror in Australia that you’d like to share, please let us know. Gillian Pollack has been exploring early Aust SF through the works of Linebarger and Shute. This year’s highlights include Lachlan Walter’s ‘Dissecting SF’ series, time travel, flying cars and interviews with Shane Abbess, the Spierig Brothers, John Scalzi, Peter Hamilton and Thoraiya Dyer. Preference is given to non-fiction where some visuals are included. These include humorous pieces, serious articles and interviews. The Editors are interested in non-fiction between 5 words of interest to readers and writers of SF, fantasy and horror. Aurealis is published 10 times a year from February to November. Submissions are now open for non-fiction contributions for Aurealis in 2016.
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