Better Man, Memoir of a Snail among Australian Writers’ Guild Award nominees for 2025

More than 80 new works will be celebrated across 22 categories at the upcoming AWGIE Awards.
Better Man counts as an Australian film. Image: Paramount Pictures/Village Roadshow

An impressive field of Australian screen and stage writers has been recognised as nominees for the 57th Annual AWGIE Awards, which will be presented by the Australian Writers’ Guild next month in Sydney. 

In the feature film categories, the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man (Michael Gracey, Oliver Cole and Simon Gleeson) is up against Audrey (Lou Sanz), Inside (Charles Williams), Stubbornly Here (Taylor Broadley) and Windcatcher (Boyd Quakawoot). In the adaptation category, Becca Johnstone’s debut feature Addition is nominated alongside Robert Connolly’s Force of Nature.  

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Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself (2015); and the creative non-fiction book Prudish Nation (2023). He is Head of Content at ArtsHub & ScreenHub. Insta: @dalgarnowrites