The Orwell Prize
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- Reposted by The Orwell PrizeOur @theconversation.com piece discusses how Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening in the world today. theconversation.com/how-george-o... @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @harvard.edu
- "Orwell’s world is fiction, but some want it to become reality." - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by The Orwell PrizeA year & a day ago, I joined 2 writers I admire, D.J. Taylor & Sandra Newman, at an @orwellprize.bsky.social event on Orwell 75 years after his death www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f... --if held now, the event would surely have had more on geopolitics www.the-independent.com/news/world/g...
- "Orwell never wanted to be sentimental about nature, or about the seasons. But he did think that seasonal cycles tell us important things about our dreams, complicating our myths of power and control." Read @drnjwaddell.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-january...
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- How do you make the perfect cup of tea? ☕️ George Orwell had strong opinions, even during rationing. In 1946, with just 2 oz of tea a week, he insisted: “One strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones.” Read A Nice Cup of Tea ↓ orwell.substack.com/p/all-true-t...
- A vital read for anyone thinking of entering the #OrwellPrize for Reporting Homelessness. Lígia Teixeira reviews England's new Plan to End Homelessness & the changes needed to make it work: www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/a-promi... @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social #Homelessness #Journalism
- "The message from across the Atlantic... is clear: Europe is going to have to learn to look after itself." The Orwell Foundation's incoming Chair of Trustees, Sir Kim Darroch, was in the pages of The Observer this Sunday. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
- “George Orwell would be relieved at how we’ve done.” Great to see Steven Pinker’s Orwell Lecture featured in @thetimes.com. He traces how the world has changed since 1984 was written & argues that Winston Smith’s faith in humanity ultimately holds true. Read here: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
- Welcome on board, James! 🫡 James's new book, LOST BOYS, is a personal journey through the "manosphere" - which could be a great way into this year's Youth Prize theme... HIRED, his investigation into low-wage Britain, was longlisted for The Orwell Prize in 2019! @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
- Thinking of volunteering with The Orwell Youth Prize? We have a new training slot, next Tuesday 2 December, 4-5pm. Email admin@orwellyouthprize.co.uk for more info!
- ✏️ Volunteer with The Orwell Youth Prize! We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT). Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
- ✏️ Volunteer with The Orwell Youth Prize! We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT). Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
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- "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." Subscribe to Orwell Daily for curated highlights from Orwell's legendary journalism, delivered "on the day": orwell.substack.com/p/every-nati...
- The Orwell Youth Prize gives every UK student the chance to: ✍️ Write creatively and critically, inspired by Orwell 📢 Make their voice and ideas heard 💡 Receive tailored feedback to make their work shine Our 2026 theme? TRUTH. Find out more: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
- Entry is now open for the 2026 Orwell Prizes in six categories, with new judging panels revealed. Thanks to prize sponsors @prospectmagazine.co.uk, @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social & founding sponsor @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. Find out more: substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Richard Blair, Orwell's son, in action on Islay, as we launch the 2026 Orwell Youth Prize!
- "To mark Banned Books Week 2025, the Dawit Isaak Library in Sweden... has created the world’s first double-bound book: a special unreadable edition of George Orwell’s 1984." lbbonline.com/news/George-... #Orwell #BannedBooks @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social
- "The best books of any one age have always been written from several different viewpoints, some of them palpably more false than others." Politics vs. Literature, October 1946 #Orwell #OrwellQuotes #OrwellDaily orwell.substack.com
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- "Our society is not only so arranged that if you have money you can buy luxuries with it. After all, that is what money is for. It is also so arranged that if you don’t have money you pay for it at every hour of the day with petty humiliations and totally unnecessary discomforts..." 6 October 1944
- Subscribe to our newsletter, Orwell Daily, for curated extracts from George Orwell's journalism, diaries and letters - delivered 'on the day' they were first published: orwell.substack.com/p/no-bus-cou...
- "Orwell's values are a light in the darkness of these troubled times." We are delighted to welcome Kim Darroch, former British ambassador to the US, as our incoming Chair of Trustees. Read the full story via our website: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
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- "Fairly much a leftist, George Orwell is a defender of freedom, even though most of the time he violently disagrees with the people beside whom he is fighting." - Allene Talmey for Vogue, 15 September 1946
- It's always a good time to read Notes on Nationalism! Thanks for sharing @samanthaasumadu.substack.com.
- "It all made such shockingly perfect sense." With Animal Farm turning 80, we asked some friends of the Foundation to share their first encounters. Our thanks (and an extra helping of apples) to all who took part! orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/it-all-mad...
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- 📢 Teachers & educators! The Orwell Youth Prize gives students: ✍️ Freedom to write about their world 💡 Individual support to improve 📣 A platform for their ideas 🏆 The chance to win for themselves & their school Follow us on LinkedIn for updates and resources 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/the-...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - "We need Animal Farm by our side more than ever now." Read Richard Blair, George Orwell's son, on eighty years of Animal Farm. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
- "War not only shatters linear stories but also destroys those writing them." Julian Evans for the Royal Literary Fund on Ukraine’s writers at war, and the life and death of Victoria Amelina - winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. www.rlf.org.uk/posts/ukrain...
- "In this country we are not troubled by lack of water. If anything we have too much of it, especially on Bank Holidays. As a result water hardly enters into our consciousness." - George Orwell, #OTD 1944
- 📰 In this month’s Orwell News: The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils returns for 2026, supported by @prospectmagazine.co.uk Meet the 2025 Orwell Youth Prize winners! Sam Hill in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social: Can we all belong? 👉 orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/journalism...
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- We're thrilled to be awarding The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils again in 2026, sponsored by @prospectmagazine.co.uk. This prize - for social reporting that shines a light on injustice and drives public understanding of complex issues - will open for entries in November.
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- Donal Ryan speaks to @rte.ie on his 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction win - for Heart, Be at Peace "When you write about ordinary people and ordinary lives, or so-called ordinary people... it is going to have political resonance." @doubledayuk.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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- Victoria Amelina's husband, Alex, accepted the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing on her behalf last night. The £3,000 prize money will support the New York Literary Festival, which Victoria founded in the Ukrainian village of New York. Her work lives on.
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- Congratulations @jennykleeman.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism! 🎉 "Her writing brings out the humanity of her subjects with emotional intelligence and great sensitivity." - @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, Chair of Judges Read more: www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/j...
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- The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness is Simon Murphy, for his work in the Mirror. Congratulations @simon-murphy.bsky.social, thank you to all our judges and to Reporting Homelessness prize sponsors @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social.
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- Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian missile in Ukraine on 1 July 2023, has posthumously won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women, Looking at War. "An unforgettable picture of the human consequences of war." Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
- The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is Donal Ryan, for Heart, Be at Peace. "For its clarity. For its perfectly pitched voices. For its humanity and kindness." - Jim Crace, Chair of Judges Congratulations, Donal! 🎉 @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
- "My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice." George Orwell, real name Eric Blair, was born in India #OTD in 1903. We're celebrating his legacy tonight at the 2025 #OrwellPrize Ceremony together with year's finalists and judges. Stay tuned to your telescreens!
- Last night, Helen Lewis & Nathan Waddell closed the Orwell Festival with a fascinating event exploring art, morality & "the genius myth". Nathan's back in London this Thursday at Waterstones Hampstead, discussing his pioneering biography, A Bright Cold Day 👇 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
- Tonight! Grab a last minute ticket: t.co/wClohODe7W
- Should great art excuse monstrous artists? Orwell didn't think so... Over on our newsletter, the brilliant @helenlewis.bsky.social digs into one of George Orwell's most incendiary essays. Read on - then join us live in London next week! orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/should-gre...
- “Filled a black hole in official data… and led to change.” – Robert Booth, judge Katharine Swindell's crucial @insidehousing.bsky.social investigation is shortlisted for our 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/kathari...
- The wait is almost over! The winners of the 2025 Orwell Prizes are announced this Wednesday, 25th June. Over on our newsletter, 12 finalists - from Political Fiction to Political Writing - introduce their books in their own words. 📚 orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/12-orwell-...
- Should great art excuse monstrous artists? Orwell didn't think so... Over on our newsletter, the brilliant @helenlewis.bsky.social digs into one of George Orwell's most incendiary essays. Read on - then join us live in London next week! orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/should-gre...
- Edward Wong's epic reading list - sparked by his Orwell Prize-shortlisted memoir At the Edge of Empire - takes in Tolstoy, Proust, Joan Didion, Hisham Matar and more. 📚 Browse the books and read @ewong.bsky.social's reflections on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
- Nearly twice as many women are sleeping rough as official stats show. @simon-murphy.bsky.social’s Mirror investigation into hidden homelessness is shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. 🔗 www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/simon-m... @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social
- Sill a few tickets left for tomorrow's shortlist event at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, Charing Cross! 📚 Mishal Husain & @simonparkin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social to discuss their moving, evocative books. 🎟️ Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/orwel...
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- "I never tire of solace." Read @jomcmillan.bsky.social's wide-ranging reading list, sparked by her Orwell Prize-shortlisted novel The Accidental Immigrants. One of these books is not like the others. From @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ac... @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Orwell PrizeI’m honored to be among these 12 Orwell Prize finalists for “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.” Here, we each try to explain why we write: lithub.com/making-sense...
- Why do we write? In this joint piece, 12 Orwell Prize finalists tackle Orwell's famous question. Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social! Find out more: lithub.com/making-sense... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @simonparkin.bsky.social @jomcmillan.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social #OrwellPrize
- Why do we write? In this joint piece, 12 Orwell Prize finalists tackle Orwell's famous question. Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social! Find out more: lithub.com/making-sense... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @simonparkin.bsky.social @jomcmillan.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social #OrwellPrize
- Still a few tickets left for tonight's #OrwellPrize shortlist reading at @waterstones.bsky.social Gower St! Join Orwell Prize finalists Natasha Brown & Gabriel Gatehouse as we talk about the role of truth, lies, and conspiracy in their brilliant new books. 🎟️ www.waterstones.com/events/orwel...
