A fter landing a leading 13 Canadian Screen Award nominations, CBC dramedy Sort Of is also the top contender for this year’s Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) Screenwriting Awards, which will be held virtually on April 25 and hosted by screenwriter and comedian Nile Séguin.

The CBC original comedy about a gender-fluid millennial, which was recently renewed for a second season and is a co-commission with HBO Max, scored four of the five nominations in the WGC Comedy Series category.

Creators, showrunners and executive producers Bilal Baig (pictured) and Fab Filippo are nominated for the pilot episode, “Sort of Gone,” while Jenn Engels picked up a nod for the second episode, “Sort of Back.” Ian Iqbal Rashid is in contention for episode three, “Sort of Mary Poppins,” while Nelu Handa is a contender with episode four, “Sort of Stable.” The series is produced by Sphere Media’s Sienna Films.

The other nominee in the comedy category is CTV’s Corner Gas Animated, with Brent Butt and Andrew Carr recognized for the episode “Haunt for Dread October.” The series, which ended with its fourth season last year, was co-produced by Brent Butt and David Storey’s Prairie Pantoons and Virginia Thompson and Robert de Lint’s Moving Mountoons.

Three out of five nominations in the Tweens & Teens category went to the interconnected family sitcoms The Parker Andersons and Amelia Parker, produced by marblemedia in association with Beachwood Canyon Productions and commissioned by BYUtv. The series, which aired on BYUtv in the U.S. and Super Channel’s Heart & Home in Canada, scored nominations for Ian Steaman for the episode “Father & Sons”; Amanda Joy for “Joy”; and Murry Peeters with “This Wasn’t the Plan.”

Family Channel series Holly Hobbie (Aircraft Pictures) got two nods in the Tweens & Teens section: “The Bumbling Bossgirl,” written by Matt Huether, and “The Slimy Sensation, written by Vivian Lin.

The Drama Series category has several CBC titles: Coroner (Back Alley Films, Muse Entertainment, Cineflix Studios) for “Blue Flock” by Seneca Aaron; Moonshine (Six Eleven Media, eOne) with “Zen and the Art of Midlife Maintenance” by Kate Spurgeon; Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury) for the Christina Ray-written “The Ministry of Virtue”; and Pretty Hard Cases (Cameron Pictures) for “Bananas,” written by Tassie Cameron and Sherry White.

Other drama contenders include Global’s Family Law (SEVEN24 Films, Lark Productions) with “Mama Don’t Preach” (story by Corey Liu; teleplay by Sonja Bennett), and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s Wynonna Earp (SEVEN24 Films, Cineflix Studios) for “Life Turned Her That Way” by Noelle Carbone.

The Children’s category has two nods for Apple TV+ series The Snoopy Show (WildBrain Studios): “Happiness is a Snow Day,” written by Craig Brown, and “Snowman Showman,” written by Betsy Walters.

Other children’s contenders include Sinking Ship Entertainment’s Odd Squad Mobile Unit (TVOKids) for “H2 Oh No,” written by Lakna Edilima; Netflix’s Scaredy Cats (Air Bud Entertainment) for “The Amulet,” written by Anna McRoberts; and Toronto’s 9 Story Media Group / Brown Bag Films’ Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (TVOKids) with “I am Temple Grandin,” written by Charles Johnston.

Also netting two nods is PBS Kids’ Elinor Wonders Why (Pipeline Studios)  in the Preschool category: for “Olive’s Tree,” written by Michael Foulke, and “Rocky the Rock” by Katherine Sandford.

The Preschool category also has Family Channel Jr.’s Happy House of Frightenstein (Headspinner Productions) for “Can’t Fight the Beat” by Diana Moore; Spin Master’s PAW Patrol (TVOKids) with “Pups Save a Clown” by Sean Jara; and Ranger Rob from Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana with “Ogety Jokety in Big Sky Park,” written by Carolyn Hay and Andrew Sabiston.

Just two titles are up for Feature Film: All My Puny Sorrows (Carousel Pictures/Mulmur Feed Co./Sugar Shack Productions), written by Michael McGowan, and Charlotte (January Films, Walking The Dog and Les Productions Balthazar) — screen story by Erik Rutherford, with a screenplay by Erik Rutherford and David Bezmozgis.

The Shorts contenders are: Beast Mode 6ix (BoxenWorks) written by Jeremy Boxen; My Pride: The Series, for the episode “Fire” written by creator and producer Maddi Patton; producer Chhavi Disawar’s Quarantine Fling, written by Nathaniel Moher; and The Solutioneers (Shaftesbury Films) for the episode “The Solutioneers vs. The Stinky Locker” by Thomas Conway.

Photo: Bilal Baig (as Sabi) in Sort Of; Credit: Keri Anderson