23rd May Awards Ceremony
11 May 2012
The winners of this year’s Orwell Prize awards ceremony will be announced on Wednesday, 23rd May, and it would be wonderful if you could join us. The 2012 winners – of the Book Prize, Journalism Prize and Blog Prize – will be announced from 7pm,… find out more
An Invitation
04 May 2012
This year’s Orwell Prize awards ceremony is taking place on Wednesday, 23rd May, and it would be wonderful if you could join us. The 2012 winners – of the Book Prize, Journalism Prize and Blog Prize – will be announced from 7pm, with drinks from… find out more
2012 Shortlists Announced
27 April 2012
The shortlists for the Orwell Prize 2012 were revealed on Tuesday at our annual shortlist announcement and debate hosted by the University of Westminster. On our website you can read the full list of 6 shortlisted books and an extract, 6 shortlisted jour… find out more
Orwell Prize 2012 Shortlists Announced
24 April 2012
6 books in contention include themes of murder, opium and urban underworld; 6 journalists in the running include pieces on 9/11 jumpers, reading the riots and welfare war; 7 bloggers still competing for the prize include those on broken bureaucracy, gene… find out more
Debate: Our overwhelmingly white media are inevitably delivering ‘white news’.
20 April 2012
On Tuesday evening The University of Westminster in Regent Street will host The Orwell Prize 2012 shortlist announcement and debate. Director of the Orwell Prize, Jean Seaton, will first announce the 2012 shortlists then a panel will debate the issue: Ou… find out more
Shortlist announcement and debate on 24th April
13 April 2012
The Orwell Prize 2012 shortlist announcement and debate will take place in less than a fortnight at the Boardroom, University of Westminster, Regent Street W1B 2UW. As Jean Seaton highlighted in a recent press release, we are concerned by the lack of sub… find out more
Happy Easter
06 April 2012
Aged eight a young George Orwell wrote to his mother Ida while studying at boarding school during Easter break 100 years ago. “Thank you for that letter you sent me, but I couldent read it somewon tore it up before I red it, so if you had anything you … find out more
2012 Longlists Announced
30 March 2012
The much anticipated longlists for the Orwell Prize 2012 were announced on Wednesday. Read the full list of 18 longlisted books here Read the full list of 12 longlisted journalists here Read the full list of 18 longlisted bloggers here, along with lin… find out more
Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced
29 March 2012
18 books: from Tokyo to Glasgow, from cybercrime to the Saville Inquiry 12 journalists: on the riots, the courts, the Westminster village 18 bloggers: Rangers, Sluggers and benefit scroungers The longlists for this year’s Orwell Prize, Britain’s … find out more
Longlists to be announced on Wednesday
23 March 2012
We received a record number of entrants for the 2012 Prize; 264 authors, 140 journalists and 226 bloggers submitted work. Our judges have been busy reading since the New Year and the longlists are due to be announced at midday on Wednesday 28th March. The… find out more