📢 ONE WEEK TO GO!

The countdown begins! Could you have a winning idea on the theme of 'Home'? Don't forget to send it in by midnight on Monday 6th May 🏡

We want to read your poems, stories, articles, essays, scripts... tell us your ideas about home!

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'The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.'

- As I Please, 28 April 1944

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'It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan.”

'Homage to Catalonia', George Orwell's first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War, was first published #OnThisDay , 1938.

'Young writers open up new vistas for us all...'

Political and social commentator Polly Toynbee wants you to tell the judges something they don't know🧐

Don't forget to send in your final entry by 6th May 📆

Read more about Polly and our judging panel:

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'When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.'

- George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language'

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'Are there really such things as nations? Are we not forty-six million individuals, all different? And the diversity of it, the chaos!'

- England Your England

Where next for public service broadcasting? 🎙️

This special edition of Political Quarterly is currently free to read - ft. contributions from Orwell Foundation Director Professor Jean Seaton, prev. judges Professor Suzanne Franks, Isabel Hilton and Richard Sambrook and more.

'When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.'

- George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language'

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“Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised.'

- Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

Orwell Prize winner Sally Hayden ('My Fourth Time, We Drowned' - The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022) has raised concerns about press freedom after being denied entry to Rwanda.

Irish Times journalist Sally Hayden says she was denied entry to Rwanda last month while travelling to cover the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. She believes it was due to her reporting on refugee issues and raised concerns about press freedom thejournal.ie/irish-journali…

Author of the Young Bond books, and award-winning comedy writer, Charlie Higson wants to hear what you have to say - loud and clear!

There's still time to enter the Orwell Youth Prize by 6th May!
Read more about Charlie and our expert judging panel here: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-you…

Nice work! The Orwell Foundation and the Orwell Archive are just across the road from UCL Hospital (Cruciform Building), not far from The Ministry of Truth...

'Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.'

- Politics and the English Language (Horizon, April 1946)

It's today!

This really is an unmissable opportunity for young writers at school or college in the UK. Get a draft entry to the The Orwell Youth Prize by midnight and receive *personal feedback* from our volunteer readers

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“We shall have a serious & truthful popular press when public opinion actively demands it. Till then, if the news is not distorted by businessmen it will be distorted by bureaucrats, who are only one degree better.”

As I Please, by The Orwell Prizes
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Exactly forty years after Winston Smith's first diary entry comes a new star-studded Audible UK 🎧 adaption of George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'...

Thanks to Huseyin for clipping this this BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Director Destiny Ekaragha and writer Joe White 👀