The Orwell Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for political writing, is open for entries for the 2016 awards.
The Orwell Prize has three categories: books, journalism, and for the second year running, the Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, which is sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The winner of each category will receive £3,000. In each category, the judges are looking for work that comes close to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.
Book prize: Submit books or pamphlets, fiction or nonfiction, published for the first time between 1 January and 31 December 2015. Self-published books are not eligible. Send five physical copies, a cover art image and a completed entry form.