ANNA BARNES is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and author. Her writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Killings, The Lifted Brow and The Age. Her book, Girl! The Ultimate Guide To Being You (Penguin 2012), was named one of the 2013 Eva Pownall Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Her plays and monologues have been performed around Australia. In 2013, her play MinusOneSister won the Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwright’s Award. MinusOneSister opened at Griffin Theatre in October 2015, produced by Stories Like These. In 2017, she won an AWGIE for the geolocative story app Ghosts of Bileola. Her play Lethal Indifference opened at the Sydney Theatre Company in February 2018 and was subsequently highly commended by Victoria Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2022, she created the AACTA and Logie nominated TV drama Safe Home for SBS. Her Safe Home pilot script won the Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She’s also written for a number of TV shows including the second series of the critically acclaimed Binge series The Twelve and the Rose D’Or winning vertical series Content for ABC TV. Content garnered her an AWGIE Award win for Best Web Series and nominations for several other awards, including an International Emmy for Best Short-Form, and an AACTA for Best Online Drama or Comedy.