The Writers Guild of America will hold its 79th annual WGA Awards on Saturday, February 13, 2027, returning to a dual-ceremony format with simultaneous shows in New York and Los Angeles, according to Deadline.

The East Coast ceremony will take place at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, the same venue that hosted the 2026 East Coast show. The West Coast ceremony moves to the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles — a shift from the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, which had been the planned West Coast venue for 2026 before that ceremony was scrapped.

That cancellation hangs over the 2027 announcement. The WGA's 2026 West Coast ceremony was called off a week before its planned March 8 show amid a strike by unionised staff against WGA West's management. The East Coast ceremony went ahead as scheduled, with comedian Roy Wood Jr. hosting at the Edison Ballroom. Top 2026 film prizes went to One Battle After Another and The Sinners, while the medical drama The Pitt swept all three of its television categories.

The 2027 timeline gives writers and studios a clear runway. Submissions open on Monday, August 31 across all categories — screenplays, series, TV-streaming-radio/audio scripts, and the Paul Selvin Award, which honours work that embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties. The submission window closes on Friday, November 20. Nominations will be announced on Friday, January 8. Preliminary online voting in the series and screenplay categories runs from Monday, December 14 through Wednesday, December 30, giving guild members roughly two weeks to narrow the fields before final voting begins.

The announcement lands during a busy stretch for the guild. In early April 2026, the WGA reached a new four-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — the group that bargains on behalf of studios and streamers — and members ratified the contract three weeks later. The agreement covers film and television writers across the industry and runs through 2030.

The guild is also waging a legal fight on the consolidation front. In July 2026, WGA East and WGA West filed a joint lawsuit seeking to block the planned merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds. The WGA subsequently filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the merger, timed to align with a separate lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general.

For writers and producers tracking the 2027 awards calendar, the key dates are fixed: submissions by November 20, nominations on January 8, and the dual ceremonies on February 13. The WGA's official awards sponsorship page confirms the ceremony date and lists a contact number — (310) 559-9334 — for sponsorship enquiries.

After a year that saw one ceremony cancelled mid-strike and a major studio deal struck, the guild is now planning for both shows to go ahead on the same night, in two cities, with the full awards machinery running again.