Writers' Guild Awards shortlists

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has announced the shortlists for its 2009 Awards. The winners will be revealed at a reception on Sunday 29 November 2009 along with individual awards for Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Writing for Children.

Television comedy / light entertainment

• Outnumbered, by Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin
• Peep Show, by Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong
• The IT Crowd, by Graham Linehan
  

Television drama series

• Being Human, by Toby Whitehouse.
• Doctor Who, various writers
• Little Dorrit, adapted by Andrew Davies from the novel by Charles Dickens
  

Television soap / continuing series

• Doctors, various writers
• Casualty, various writers
• Coronation Street, various writers

Television short form drama

• The Devil's Whore by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant
  
• Criminal Justice by Peter Moffat
  
• The Long Walk to Finchley by Tony Saint

Best feature film screenplay

• The Damned United, adapted by Peter Morgan from the book by David Peace
• Hunger, by Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
• In the Loop, by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci, Tony Roche, (additional dialogue by Ian Martin)
  

Feature film screenplay – newcomer

• Is Anybody There? by Peter Harness
• Shifty, by Eran Creevy
• Summer, by Hugh Ellis.
  

Best theatre play

• Apologia, by Alexi Kaye Campbell
• At the Gates of Gaza, by Juliet Gilkes Romero
• Relocated, by Anthony Neilson.
  

Best theatre play for children and young people

• Knock Against my Heart, by Oladipo Agboluaje
• Red Fortress, by Carl Miller
• Scarlet Ribbons, by Brendan Murray
  

Radio comedy / light entertainment

• The Now Show, by Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes et al
• 15 Minute Musicals, by Richie Webb, David Quantick and Dave Cohen
• Bleak Expectations, by Mark Evans
• Cabin Pressure, by John Finnemore
  

Radio drama

• A Prayer for Owen Meany, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffin from the novel by John Irving
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, adapted by Andrew Lynch from the novel by Robert Tressell
• The Gunshot Wedding, by Katie Hims.
  

Video games award

• Prince of Persia, by Andy Walsh
• Fable II, by Mark Hill
• Routes, by Tom Edge
  

The Writers’ Guild Awards are sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, BBC Writersroom, BBC Talent Rights, and H.W. Fisher & Company, the accountants with many media and trade union clients.

The 2009 Awards reception will be held at the Free Word Centre in Clerkenwell, central London, the newly-opened home of English PEN, Free Word, Index on Censorship, Arvon Foundation, Literary Consultancy, Reading Agency Apples & Snakes, Article 19, Booktrust and Dalkey Archive.

Update (6.11.09): Apologies, the TV short form drama category was missing when this post was first published.