Orwell’s England
27 September 2012
Last week the Orwell Prize took a panel to the George Orwell Festival at Letchworth near Wallington where Orwell lived for a time after his 1936 journey to Wigan. We were there to talk about The Road to Wigan Pier; the poverty Orwell saw there in comparis… find out more
Great Lives
20 September 2012
This week George Orwell was the subject of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives. The show was presented by Matthew Parris who won the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2005 and featured former MP Alan Johnson as well as our Orwell Prize Director, Professor Jean Seaton.… find out more
Treading Orwell’s road to Wigan
13 September 2012
A guestpost by Stephen Armstrong, author of Road to Wigan Pier Revisited. Stephen will join our panel for Poverty then and now; Orwell and his successors at Letchworth Festival Thursday 20th September. I don’t think I truly realised the dangers of revi… find out more
Poverty then and now: Orwell and his successors
06 September 2012
The Orwell Prize will be returning to the Letchworth George Orwell Festival for a second year in just two weeks. This time we're taking a discussion on poverty then and now with some of Orwell's 'successors'. Our exciting panel is made up of Dr Michael Sa… find out more
Why I wrote Dead Men Risen
24 August 2012
This is a guest post by Toby Harnden, winner of the 2012 Orwell Prize for Books Toby Harnden on winning The Orwell Prize In his essay of self-examination ‘Why I Write’, George Orwell wrote that "All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the … find out more
Animal Farm
17 August 2012
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the publication of Animal Farm which was first available in 1945. In the same month Orwell began work as the Literary Editor of The Tribune, he also began writing one of the works his name would be most remembered fo… find out more
The Sporting Spirit
10 August 2012
The London 2012 Olympic games has dominated all UK media outlets for the last fortnight. At the time of writing a Journalisted search reveals that since the opening ceremony there have been 6,427 articles published in the national press. We know from lett… find out more
Rangers Tax-Case on writing politics
03 August 2012
This is a guestpost from Rangers Tax-Case, winner of the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2012 Much has been written recently about the crisis facing political writing. Most of the discussion has centred on the always seemingly imminent death of the newspaper and … find out more
Buxton video
27 July 2012
You can now watch a video (filmed on the Media Standard Trust's brand new camera) of our fantastic debate at Buxton Festival, ‘Orwell vs. Kipling; who was the greater writer’, on our website and YouTube channel. We were lucky enough to have the wond… find out more
Orwell’s Kitchener poem
20 July 2012
This week we have added a piece written by Eric Blair to our website. The poem was published by the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard on 21st July 1916 by a thirteen-year-old who was one day to become George Orwell. Entitled Kitchener the piece is … find out more
