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
Orwell Prize Longlist 2012: Announcement
Full details to follow. Read more
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
Launch Debate 2012: Writing the Riots
Image from Beacon Radio on flickr (Creative Commons) Speakers Nicolas Kent (artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre) Paul Lewis (special projects editor of The Guardian, Read more
Wednesday 9 November, 2011
6:30pm
Frontline Club
London
W2 1QJ
Cheltenham 2011: The Political Network
Speakers Graeme Archer (winner of the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011) Oliver Kamm (The Times, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2009) Details Political Read more
Sunday 16 October, 2011
6:00pm
Imperial Square
Cheltenham
GL50 1QA
Cheltenham 2011: Victorian Values
Speakers Jose Harris (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) Owen Jones (author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class) Shiv Malik (journalist, Read more
Saturday 15 October, 2011
10:00am
Montpellier Gardens
Cheltenham
GL50 1SD
Orwell Prize at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Orwell Prize is delighted to be taking at least two events to The Times’ Cheltenham Literature Festival for the first time. We filmed Peter Read more
9:59am
Cheltenham Literature Festival
109 Bath Road, Cheltenham
GL53 7LS
Buxton 2011: Is politics corrupted by corrupted language?
Speakers Colette Douglas-Home (journalist) Mark Douglas-Home (journalist, former editor of the Glasgow Herald) Linda Grant (Orange Prize-winning novelist, books include We Had It So Good) Read more
Wednesday 13 July, 2011
10:30am
Palace Hotel
Palace Road, Buxton
SK17 6AG
Awards Ceremony 2011
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
Tuesday 17 May, 2011
6:30pm
Church House
Dean's Yard, Westminster
London SW1P 3NZ
Orwell Prize Shortlist 2011: Announcement and Debate
Speakers Peter Hitchens (winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2010) Sunder Katwala (general secretary of the Fabian Society, longlisted for the Blog Prize 2011) Read more
Tuesday 26 April, 2011
6:30pm
Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf
South Colonnade, London
E14 5EP
Oxford 2011: Does it make a difference who funds the arts?
Speakers Sir Mark Jones (director, Victoria and Albert Museum) Karen Freyer (managing director, New Deal of the Mind; former journalist with CNN, Newsnight and TIME) Read more
Tuesday 5 April, 2011
12:00pm
HSBC Premier Marquee
Christ Church College, Oxford
OX1 1DP