Garden Writers' Guild
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The British Garden Writers' Guild, or GWG, is a trade organisation for garden writers, photographers, broadcasters and members of allied trades. The Guild was established in 1991 to improve the quality of garden writing, photography and broadcasting by improving links between the gardening mass media and the horticultural industry.
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[edit] Guild activities
The Guild members organise GWG Briefing Days, during which the horticultural trade and GWG members are made aware of new developments and exchange views; occasional Publishing Days are also held to discuss aspects of that subject. The Guild itself publishes a bi-monthly newsletter for members and an annual yearbook of members.
The Garden Photographers' Association is part of the GWG.
[edit] GWG Awards
The Guild has held its prestigious GWG Awards Lunch since 1994. The annual ceremony is currently held at the Savoy Hotel, London, each November. The number and titles of the awards presented at this lunch have varied over the years: three new multimedia categories were added in 2006. Awards are now made for outstanding contributions in the following 17 categories:
[edit] Books
(for new hardbacks or paperbacks)
- Practical Book of the Year
- Reference Book of the Year
- Enthusiasts’ Book of the Year
[edit] Consumer press
- Newspaper of the Year
- (the newspaper with the best gardening content)
- Magazine of the Year
- (the magazine with the best gardening content)
- Journalist of the Year
- (for the best three gardening articles in a magazine or newspaper)
- Practical Journalist of the Year
- (for the best column, single article or selected article from a feature or series in a magazine or newspaper)
[edit] Trade and technical press
- Trade Journalist of the Year
- (for a selected column or article from a feature or series published in a professional horticultural or trade journal)
[edit] Photography
- Photographer of the Year
- (for a portfolio of garden and/or plant photographs published in diverse media)
- Features Photographer of the Year
- (for a themed assignment illustrating a book, feature, series or website)
- Photographers’ Choice
- (for a single photograph from the Garden Photographers' Association exhibition)
[edit] Broadcasting
(for national/regional TV/radio gardening broadcasts, either single programmes or selected programmes from a series or strand)
- Television Broadcast of the Year
- Radio Broadcast of the Year
[edit] Multimedia
(first awarded in 2006)
- Environmental Award
- (for an article or broadcast on an environmental or ‘green’ topic)
- New Writer Award
- (for the best article in any medium by a new writer or journalist in their first year)
- New Media Award
- (for complete websites, website blogs, podcasts, interactive TV programmes, CDs or DVDs)
[edit] Special Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award
(decided by a poll of Guild members)
- Past winners include: Rosemary Verey, Graham Stuart Thomas, Christopher Lloyd, Beth Chatto, Penelope Hobhouse, Roy Lancaster and Alan Titchmarsh.
