For this first time, an award was given to best writer in comedy.
The best writer in the drama category was picked up by previous BAFTA-nominee Sally Wainwright for Last Tango in Halifax.
It will compete in the categories of best feature film, Paul Laverty for best writer, and Paul Brannigan and Siobhan Reilly for best actor and actress.
The best a writer can do, she says, is describe the confusion.
Talese may just be the best magazine writer of his generation.
Author Mark Haddon, who penned The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is shortlisted for the best adaptation writer category for BBC One's Fungus the Bogeyman.
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Colin Firth won Best Actor and writer David Seidler, 73, won for Best Original Screenplay.
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For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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Smith, a best-selling cookery writer, has been sharing recipes with the nation since the 1970s.
This year's breakthrough talent award went to Tim Whitnall, writer of Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story.
Pinker, a Harvard psychology professor and best-selling science writer, wants to correct what he sees as a basic misperception.
Johnson was a challenging and determinedly avant-garde writer, best known for his fiction.
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The writer, best known for crime novels featuring medical investigator Dr Kay Scarpetta, has accused the firm of negligence and breach of contract.
He wants to write it like a police procedural, and has been reading novels by the best-selling crime writer Michael Connelly to study the genre.
With Sally Field as the American Sweetheart who turns into the Queen of Misery, Whoopi Goldberg as her best friend and head writer, Cathy Moriarty as her rival, Robert Downey, Jr.
Best-selling crime writer RJ Ellory has turned out to be the latest author exposed in the ongoing saga of fake Amazon reviews, a can of worm that just keeps on wriggling.
Just as a good writer is best given his rope, so an art director needs conceptual room to convey the rest of the story and to integrate the assorted elements of a magazine.
For best-selling British crime writer Peter James, it's not an academic question.
First awarded in 2007, the Man Asian literary prize, is given annually to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in or translated into English, published in the previous calendar year.
Then destiny, in the form of smart producers, put him together with Simon Beaufoy's screenplay -- the writer's best-known script to that point had been "The Full Monty" -- and the result will make movie history.
The phrase was first used by Mee - a celebrated writer and journalist best known for his 1908 Children's Encyclopaedia - in The King's England, a 1930s series of books offering a guide to each of England's counties.
New Zealand writer Craig Cliff won best first book for A Man Melting, a collection of short stories.
BBC3's Being Human won the Writers' Guild award for TV drama series, while Hollyoaks writer Nick Leather won best continuing TV drama.
The plot revolves around a reclusive writer and his latest best-selling book.
Best Buy is in trouble as profits plunge along with its share price (Forbes staff writer Steve Schaefer does a nice job of covering Best Buy).
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In a lifetime of shrewd business moves that mirrored his felicity as a writer, Shakespeare saved his best for last.
Of course the reader needs a reason to continue, but the best reason is simply confidence that the writer is going some place interesting.
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And like the characters in her best-selling Harry Potter series, British writer Rowling possesses magical powers.
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