THE ORWELL FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL WRITING
in partnership with Substack
and The Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
22nd JUNE - 14th JULY 2022, BLOOMSBURY & ONLINE
Illustration by André Carrilho for the New Statesman
Hannah Al-Othman Drew Ambrose Catherine Belton Grace Blakeley Jason Cowley Dominic Cummings Polly Curtis Annabel Deas Dennis Duncan David Edgerton Richard Evans Ali Fowle Gabriel Gatehouse Sana Goyal Jessie Greengrass Sally Hayden Isabel Hilton Katja Hoyer Polina Ivanova Kojo Koram The Moon Under Water Podcast Orwell’s London Walks Audrey Magee George Monbiot J.O. Morgan Chris Patten Jess Phillips Lucy Proctor Gideon Rachman Yara Rodrigues Fowler Monique Roffey Ali Smith Rebecca Solnit Louise Tickle Daniel Trilling Isabel Waidner David Wengrow Sarah Wood Michela Wrong Joshua Yaffa
THE MOST IMPORTANT, IMAGINATIVE AND HONEST POLITICAL WRITING
The Orwell Festival will bring together the shortlisted writers for The Orwell Prizes 2022, along with some special guests, in a series of events to discuss the most important and exciting political thinking and writing today.
In the spirit of George Orwell’s fiction, non-fiction and journalism, The Orwell Foundation aims to celebrate honest and creative writing and reporting, uncover hidden lives, and confront uncomfortable truths. We take seriously Orwell’s injunction that if ‘Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’
As such, the Orwell Festival will be a space for difficult debate and diversity of opinion and viewpoints, encourage creativity and clarity of expression, provide a platform for unheard voices, and defend the right to individual conscience, whilst remaining politically impartial.
There will be debates, panels and lectures, with writers from different disciplines being brought together to discuss the most pressing themes and issues. Selected events will be streamed online and recorded. The festival will culminate in the announcement of the winners of The Orwell Prizes 2022.
Visit the Orwell Foundation website to find out more about our work.
www.orwellfoundation.com
