Upcoming events

Awards Ceremony 2013

This year’s awards ceremony will start at 6.30pm (drinks), with the winners being announced from 7pm. The ceremony is being held at Church House, Westminster, Read more

Wednesday 15 May, 2013
6:30pm

Church House
Dean's Yard, Westminster
London SW1P 3NZ

Orwell Prize Shortlist Event 2013: When censorship declines does freedom emerge?

Speakers Nita May OBE (Producer for the BBC Burmese Service) Tayzar Moe Myint (Former Burmese political prisoner and UN Development Program Analyst) Julia Farringdon (Head Read more

Wednesday 17 April, 2013
6:30pm

The Boardroom, University of Westminster
307 Regent St
London W1B 2UW

The Irrawaddy Literary Festival

The Orwell Prize will be at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, Burma’s first international literary festival, with three panel discussions. Friday 1st February 3.30pm Writing Under Read more

Friday 1 February, 2013
3:30pm

Inya Lake Hotel
Yangon
Burma

Orwell Lecture 2012: Christopher Andrew – The Most Dangerous Moment in British History, Secrets of the 1962 Missile Crisis

Speaker Christopher Andrew (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge) Details Organised by the Orwell Trust and Birkbeck College, University of Read more

Thursday 22 November, 2012
6:00pm

JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck University of London
Ground Floor, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street
London WC1

Launch debate 2013: A crisis in policing?

Speakers Roger Graef (criminologist and BAFTA winning film-maker) Denis MacShane (MP for Rotherham) Andrew Norfolk (The Times. Norfolk was instrumental in exposing the Rotherham grooming Read more

Wednesday 24 October, 2012
6:30pm

Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place, London
W2 1QJ

Letchworth 2012: Poverty then and now, Orwell and his successors

Speakers Stephen Armstrong is the author of Road to Wigan Pier Revisited, a book he retraced Orwell’s steps in The Road to Wigan Pier to Read more

Thursday 20 September, 2012
7:30pm

Spirella Ballroom
Spirella Building, Bridge Road
Letchworth SG6 4ET

Buxton 2012: Orwell vs. Kipling

Speakers For Orwell; Paul Anderson (journalist, author, academic, editor of Orwell in Tribune: ‘As I Please and other writings 1943-7′) Stuart Evers (Author of ‘Ten Read more

Monday 16 July, 2012
10:30am

Pavillion Arts Centre
St John's Road
Buxton SK17 6BE

Awards Ceremony 2012

This year’s awards ceremony will start at 6.30pm (drinks), with the winners being announced from 7pm.The ceremony is being held at Church House, Westminster, which Read more

Wednesday 23 May, 2012
6:30pm

Church House
Dean's Yard, Westminster
London SW1P 3NZ

Orwell Prize Shortlist 2012: Announcement and Debate

Speakers Hannah Pool (author and former Guardian writer) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Independent columnist and winner of the Orwell Prize 2002 for journalism) Rob Berkeley (Director of Read more

Tuesday 24 April, 2012
6:30pm

The Boardroom, University of Westminster
Regent Street
London W1B 2UW

Oxford 2012: Politics and the press

Speakers Gaby Hinsliff (journalist and former political editor of The Observer, blogger, judge of the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011, author of  Half A Wife) Martin Moore Read more

Sunday 1 April, 2012
4:00pm

Christ Church Cathedral School
3 Brewer Street
Oxford OX1 1QW

Oxford 2012: The Road to Wigan Pier – 75 years on

Speakers Stephen Armstrong (journalist and broadcaster, author of the forthcoming The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited) Beatrix Campbell (journalist, broadcaster and playwright, author of Wigan Pier Revisited) Read more

Saturday 31 March, 2012
6:30pm

Corpus Christi College
Oxford
OX1 1DP

Oxford 2012: Homage to Catalonia – the Spanish Civil War

Speakers Helen Graham (professor of Spanish history at Royal Holloway, University of London, author of books including The Spanish Republic at War and The Spanish Civil War: Read more

Friday 30 March, 2012
2:00pm

Festival Room 1
Christ Church College, Oxford
OX1 1DP

Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012

The Orwell Prize will be at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival for a fifth year, with three panel discussions. To find out more, and Read more


1:59pm

Christ Church College
Oxford
OX1 1DP

Wednesday 28 March, 2012
12:00pm

Orwell Lecture 2011: Alan Rusbridger – Hacking away at the truth

Speaker Alan Rusbridger (editor-in-chief, Guardian News and Media) Details Organised by the Orwell Trust and Birkbeck College, University of London The Guardian has been investigating Read more

Thursday 10 November, 2011
6:00pm

Darwin Theatre, University College London
Malet Place
London WC1E 6BT