The Orwell Prize

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!

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The Orwell Prizes 2026 open for entries, judges announced | The Orwell Foundation The Orwell Foundation is now accepting entries for its six annual Orwell Prizes, the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing and reporting. The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Ev...

Thanks for sharing! Could we send over some more information about this year's Orwell Prizes? There are a number of new opportunities.

NB the award in the list above is a separate project, run by our friends at the Orwell Society.

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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!

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✏️ 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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Volunteering | The Orwell Foundation How you can help support our young writers

The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals to volunteer as Readers for the Orwell Youth Prize.

Help give young people without strong academic support networks the chance for constructive advice on their writing.

Very excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 @orwellprize.bsky.social in Political Writing, chaired by Rohan Silva, alongside Katie Prescott, Sam Bowman and Lawrence Freedman. Looking forward to reading and discussing—get your submissions in now!
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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."

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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.

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Richard Blair, Orwell's son, in action on Islay, as we launch the 2026 Orwell Youth Prize!

George Orwell's 1984 Becomes World’s First Double-Bound Book | LBBOnline Little Black Book, BBDO Nordics and the Dawit Isaak Library in Sweden launch the powerful protest against censorship by binding the classic shut on both sides

"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."

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"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

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Volunteering | The Orwell Foundation How you can help support our young writers

The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals to volunteer as Readers for the Orwell Youth Prize.

Help give young people without strong academic support networks the chance for constructive advice on their writing.

"How were those people to get home?" First published in Tribune, 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...

"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

"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...

"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...

Big congratulations to Kim Darroch on his appointment as new Chair of
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Kim takes over from Ken Macdonald who has been a superb Chair over the last decade.

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Volunteering | The Orwell Foundation How you can help support our young writers

Volunteer as a Reader for the Orwell Youth Prize!

The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals across publishing, literature, academia, civil society (and more) to provide personalised feedback as part of their judging process.

"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

👏 thank you!

Thanks Paul - do share the starter pack with us if you haven't already. Great idea. :)

It's always a good time to read Notes on Nationalism! Thanks for sharing @samanthaasumadu.substack.com.

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"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

"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!

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"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

Isn't this a brilliant read...and there's so much more to come.

Thank you.

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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

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"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

Animal Farm at Eighty

“I took it out of the library, and read it quietly, in bed, under the covers.”

On the 80th anniversary of its publication, read my first encounter with Orwell’s Animal Farm:

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