What has our Writers Guild done for us lately?
Glad you asked because the Guild has a wonderful answer in Writers Connect, a short newsletter members get every week. (See? Another good reason to bust your butt to qualify and join.)
Organizing in Animation
Members successfully push for Guild coverage of short-form and TV animation projects.
Without delving into platitudes about how unprecedented these times are, or debating the semantics of what constitutes the “new normal,” it’s fair to say that looking for work right now is stressful.
We reached out to a number of recently staffed writers—people who were hired after the stay-at-home orders—to get their advice on how they navigated the current staffing landscape. Here is what they had to say: Read more >>
US Census Hopes to Count on Writers
With so much at stake, WGAW partners with the 2020 census to remind members to respond before the September 30 deadline.
Nationwide, only 63% of households have responded in the 2020 census count, including a mere 55% of households in Los Angeles. Add COVID-19 and concerted efforts to suppress the count, and the results of the census could have severe negative consequences for representation and critical services. Read more >>
In Case You Missed It: Written By Fall 2020 Issue
n the new Fall 2020 issue of Written By: Decolonizing Hollywood—Native American & Indigenous writers are poised to change television. Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham synthesize a superhero in Wonder Woman 1984. There’s a little Evil in every Good Fight—just ask husband-wife co-creators Robert and Michelle King. What’s one thing Mrs. America creator Dahvi Waller has in common with right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly? Deliberate ambiguity, maybe. Bruce Helford, Bruce Rasmussen, and Dave Caplan are back on the couch with The Conners. Members of the WGAW Committee of Black Writers talk candidly about racism and accountability in the industry in this exclusive Q&A. Writer-producer Evette Vargas, founder of The Writers Room 5050, uplifts the underrepresented. And in the latest Web Extra: When it came time to run the show, Dahvi Waller had a wealth of knowledge to rely on.