Key Dates

You can find dates for all major events, including submission deadlines and prize announcements, below.

Dates	Event	Event Details
30/11/2007	Orwell Prize 2008 Launch	Launch event at the Frontline Club New website launched Exciting announcements Prize open for entries - How to Enter Judges announced

06/12/2007	Orwell Lecture	5pm, Birkbeck College, London Michael Rosen - The Politics of Response: Orwell's contribution to the questions of how we read and what reading is for

31/01/2008	Submission Deadline	Entries close View Entries 2008

27/02/2008	Longlist Announcement	Longlists announced View Book Prize Longlist View Journalism Prize Longlist

26/03/2008	Shortlist Announcement	Shortlists announced at Reuters Shortlist Debate Debate on 'Has the Left Stopped Thinking?'

02/04/2008	Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival	Orwell Prize hosts debate on political diaries With Alastair Campbell and Tony Benn

24/04/2008	Awards Ceremony	Winners announced Ceremony at Foreign Press Association

25/06/2008	Anniversary of Orwell's Birth	105 years since Orwell's birth Celebrate with an Orwell cake recipe

21/08/2008	Edinburgh International Book Festival	ScottishPower Studio Theatre, 7pm Book Prize 2008 Winner Raja Shehadeh in conversation with Andrew Franklin Introduced by Sir Bernard Crick