Playwright Anna Valentine has won three gongs at the AWGIE Awards in Melbourne. Source: AAP
PLAYWRIGHT Alana Valentine, who likes to gives audiences a kick up the arse in a witty way, has swept the Australian Writers' Guild Awards (AWGIEs).
Valentine picked up three gongs, including script of the year, at the awards ceremony on Friday night.
The AWGIEs are judged solely by writers on the basis of the script.
Valentine scooped the Major AWGIE, for Most Outstanding Script of 2013, and took out the community and youth theatre category for her play Grounded.
Set in Newcastle, Grounded is a coming-of-age tale about teenager Farrah, who wants to be a marine pilot.
Valentine began her winning streak by picking up the inaugural $25,000 David Williamson Prize for quality new Australian works for the stage.
"I'm very proud to be part of a guild which actually encourages and celebrates writers who want to look at what's happening in our culture right now, on our watch," Valentine told the audience at Melbourne's Plaza Ballroom.
"I'm really proud of all the writers in the guild who chose to, as cleverly and wittily as they do, give our audiences a kick up the arse and rub their noses in what we think is not working about this country."
In television writing, Robert Connolly picked up the best Telemovie Adaption award for Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
The Underbelly: Badness team - Niki Aken, Peter Gawler, Felicity Packard and Jeffrey Truman - were honoured for writing the stand-out original television mini-series.
Andrew Knight won the best television series AWGIE for the Rake series 2 episode R v. Floyd. The Good News Week writers received their ninth AWGIE for the final season of the comedy/light entertainment series.
The $25,000 Foxtel Fellowship, awarded in recognition of an impressive body of television work, went to Jacquelin Perske for a career including TV dramas The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way.
In the movie arena, Kim Mordaunt won the AWGIE for best original feature film script for The Rocket.
That film, about a 10-year-old boy trying to help his family in Laos' war-torn north, is Australia's selection for the best foreign-language film at next year's Oscars.
The Rocket also took out the audience awards at both the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals.
Best short film script went to husband and wife team, Matthew Moore and Genevieve Hegney, for The Amber Amulet, based on Craig Silvey's novella.
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