Few things more surreal or profoundly galling than the appointment of #MichaelGove as *chair* of the #OrwellPrize panel. (How could that even happen?!?🤷🏻‍♂️💥🤬)

Typically, while most #media yawns & stretches,
@BylineTimes.bsky.social is shining a light.

A promising new plan for ending homelessness in England, and how we can help it succeed Ligia Teixeira, Chief Executive, reflects on England’s new National Plan to End Homelessness. She highlights that one of the most significant aspects of the strategy is its explicit recognition that h...

A vital read for anyone thinking of entering the #OrwellPrize for Reporting Homelessness.

Lígia Teixeira reviews England's new Plan to End Homelessness & the changes needed to make it work: www.homelessnessimpact.org/news/a-promi...

@homelessnessimpact.bsky.social

#Homelessness #Journalism

History curriculum debate

The Orwell Prize is so important as mainstream media love slogans, can't stand detail, love to sweep anything unpalatable under the carpet. Gove + VIP Lane? So many in power must of course use any tools available to influence the history our kids learn in school... #Orwellprize @tbij.bsky.social

This is a starter pack of people associated with The Orwell Prize. Please follow and repost if you can #writingcommunity #orwellprize #journalists

In June, the late #Ukrainian writer and public figure #VictoriaAmelina won the #OrwellPrize for political writing for “Looking at Women Looking at War,” the book she was unable to finish before a Russian missile killed her.
Read more about her story here: chytomo.com/en/victoria-...

heart, be at peace by Donal Ryan It has been 10 years since The Spinning Heart (my review), and in this small town in rural Ireland, County Tipperary, not a lot seems to have changed, or maybe it has. Previously it was economic co…

Heart be at peace by #DonalRyan
21 voices in an Irish village, 10 years after events of The Spinning Heart.
Some fare better, but through dark means.

Suspicion, mistrust, grief & regret prevail in this worthy winner of the #OrwellPrize for Political fiction 2025.

clairemcalpine.com/2025/01/16/h...

We're so proud of our wonderful colleague Donal Ryan! Massive congrats Donal! @unioflimerick.bsky.social #writing #orwellprize #EIC

#OrwellPrize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in #Ukraine war. #VictoriaAmelina wins with her unfinished book #LookingatWomenLookingatWar while #DonalRyan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town theguardian.com/books/2025/j... 📚

Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #orwellprize #politicalwriting #victoriaamelina #donalryan

"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

George Orwell, real name Eric Blair, was born in India #OTD in 1903.

We're celebrating his legacy tonight at the 2025 #OrwellPrize Ceremony together with year's finalists and judges.

Stay tuned to your telescreens!

Why do we write? In this joint piece, 12 Orwell Prize finalists tackle Orwell's famous question.

Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social!

Find out more: lithub.com/making-sense...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social @simonparkin.bsky.social @jomcmillan.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

#OrwellPrize

Still a few tickets left for tonight's #OrwellPrize shortlist reading at @waterstones.bsky.social Gower St!

Join Orwell Prize finalists Natasha Brown & Gabriel Gatehouse as we talk about the role of truth, lies, and conspiracy in their brilliant new books.

🎟️ www.waterstones.com/events/orwel...

How did the truth get so twisted?

📅 Tues 17 Jun | @waterstones.bsky.social Gower St

Join us for an evening with #OrwellPrize finalists Natasha Brown (Universality) & Gabriel Gatehouse (The Coming Storm). Tickets, inc. a glass of wine: www.waterstones.com/events/orwel...

@faberbooks.bsky.social

🎤 Join @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winning author #SamanthaHarvey on Mon 16 June for an evening of conversation on her latest novel, #Orbital. 🌌
Organised by @bathspauni.bsky.social Creative Writing Research Centre
👉www.brlsi.org/whatso...
#BookerPrize #orwellprize #orangeprize #manbookerprize

In the light of this week’s finalist announcement for the 2025 Orwell Prize, I have updated this starter pack. Some more brilliant writers and journalists in here for you to follow. Please repost the pack if you can to promote them and their great work widely #OrwellPrize #writingcommunity

Fantastic that this investigation has reached the #OrwellPrize shortlist. Well done all. Shame on government, though, for issuing a consultation document in Feb 2020, which proposes to ban absence of care only for children in care who are aged 15 and under. #KeepCaringTo18

A journalist on the front line protecting an open society... Carole Cadwalladr made some powerful enemies during the w...

an nourishing appraisal of @carolecadwalla's benchmark setting win of 2018's Orwell Prize – www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/0... by @fotoole (2017's #OrwellPrize winner) #Brexit