Deadline for 2020 Orwell Prize entries extended to 21st January 2021
07 January 2021
With reporters under immense pressure to cover an intense and chaotic start to the year, the Foundation is extending the deadline for entries to The Orwell Prize for Journalism and The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils to midday Thursday … find out more
New ‘Game Design’ Category Announced for The Orwell Youth Prize, ‘Animal Farm’ game launches
10 December 2020
The Orwell Foundation and the 'Animal Farm' game's project founder Imre Jele have worked together on a new 'Game Design' category for the Orwell Youth Prize. The prize is an annual programme for 12-18-year olds which seeks to amplify the voices that go un… find out more
Entry opens for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2021 and The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2021 after ‘year like no other’
02 December 2020
*Deadline extended to midday Thursday 21st January 2021* The 2021 judging panels for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2021 and The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2021 (sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation), the UK’s free-to-… find out more
Dr Tristram Hunt to deliver the first online Orwell Memorial Lecture – ‘Decolonising the Wonder House: Orwell, Empire and the Museum’
10 November 2020
Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A and former Labour MP, will deliver this year’s Orwell Memorial Lecture, ‘Decolonising the Wonder House: Orwell, Empire and the Museum’. Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, managing trustee and honorary director of… find out more
Judges revealed for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2021 and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021
19 October 2020
The 2021 judging panels for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the UK’s most sought-after prizes for political writing, are announced today. The panels will be tasked with choosing the fiction and non-f… find out more
Entries invited for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2021 and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021
05 October 2020
The Orwell Foundation is currently inviting entries for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2021 and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021. Publishers and/or authors are invited to submit their titles via the submission link here. Full rules of e… find out more
Kate Clanchy’s Orwell Prize winning memoir sent to 75 important figures in education in the UK
02 September 2020
As pupils return to school across the country, the Orwell Foundation and Picador have collaborated to give copies of Kate Clanchy’s Orwell Prize winning book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me to seventy-five of the most important figures in edu… find out more
Jessica Johnson’s Orwell Youth Prize Winning Story: An Update
20 August 2020
The Orwell Foundation is hugely proud of Orwell Youth Prize winner Jessica Johnson, whose story ‘A Band Apart’, about a dystopian future where an algorithm splits students into bands based on their background, has been widely praised as prescient fol… find out more
‘George Orwell and the Battle for Animal Farm’: new film marks 75th anniversary of novel’s publication
17 August 2020
"This is the story of how George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, the mountain he had to climb to get it published, and the enormous personal tragedy which ran beneath." The Orwell Foundation is delighted to share an exclusive new short film, which is being rele… find out more
Orwell Youth Prize Winners Revealed: reports from the collective frontline of being young in lockdown
28 July 2020
1200 young people across the United Kingdom write on the 'future they want' (and reveal the future they fear) In the acres of Covid coverage, young peoples' future has been a political weapon for every side – school, jobs, and mental health all discu… find out more
