8+ hour, 33+ min ago  (571+ words) In his essay "Why I Write, George Orwell claimed that prose writers have four "great motivations (putting aside the need to earn a living) " sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose. We put that same question to ten…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (374+ words) Together, The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction reward the fiction and non-fiction that best meets George Orwell's own ambition "to make political writing into an art.' This year's winners will be announced next…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (342+ words) In the autumn of 1940, as the Blitz raged overhead, George Orwell sat down to write The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), a searching reflection on the nature of England, its people, and its political future. Inspired by Orwell'and on the eve…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (307+ words) The Orwell Prize has announced the 16 finalists for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Across fiction and non-fiction, the Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics, with the judges tasked with…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (754+ words) The Orwell Foundation today reveals the finalists for three Prizes: The Orwell Prize for Journalism, The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils, sponsored by Prospect, and The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, sponsored by the Centre for Homelessness Impact....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (300+ words) Bringing Orwell to New York is only the beginning: we are also working to establish an annual lecture, an Orwell Prize open to journalists based in the US, and associated projects that harness the authority and ambition this moment demands....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (12+ words) Meet the Judges for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2026orwellfoundation. substack. com...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (339+ words) Homelessness is one of the defining crises of our time, and the journalists who cover it shape how the public and policymakers respond. Returning in a new format, and sponsored by the Centre for Homelessness Impact, The Orwell Prize for…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (454+ words) If you've done powerful work this year, or know someone who has, The Orwell Prizes are where it should be recognised. From social reporting to dispatches from the front line, if you know a journalist whose work deserves to be…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (923+ words) Also in this newsletter: Our new exhibition, Orwell and Truth, launches in New York Join us in London, 23 March, for the launch of the first complete edition of the letters of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, George Orwell's wife Orwell Youth Prize feedback…...