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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, wi...
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...
On a bright, cold Wednesday afternoon in New York, just south of Washington Square Park, a group of scholars, readers and students from across the city gathered at NYU’s Kimmel Windows to mark the opening of Orwell and Truth: the first exhi...
The Orwell Prizes close for entries tonight in three categories: Journalism, Exposing Britain’s Social Evils and Reporting Homelessness.
If you’ve done powerful work this year, or know someone who has, The Orwell Prizes are where it shoul...
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 Re...
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