Last chance to enter! The 2025 Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism closes soon
The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is open for submissions until 28 February
Winner: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize 2024: Oscar Jelley reviews Isabel Waidner
The winning entry for this year’s criticism prize dissects the German-British writer’s latest novel, a work that combines surrealist fantasy and political moralising
Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024
The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions
Tara McEvoy on Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Tara McEvoy on Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a collection that explores the form’s boundaries
Yohann Koshy on Dril Official ‘Mr Ten Years’ Anniversary Collection
Yoshan Koshy’s piece on a twisty, topical collection of tweets was highly commended in this year’s Observer/Anthony Burgess prize
Burgess Prize winner 2019: Jason Watkins on Daisy Campbell’s Pigspurt’s Daughter
This year’s prize for arts journalism goes to Jason Watkins for his review of Daisy Campbell’s Pigspurt’s Daughter
Nigella Lawson’s At My Table by Felicity James
This year’s £3,000 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism goes to Felicity James’s reflection on 20 years of sharing her kitchen with the self-styled domestic goddess
The Observer/Burgess prize for arts journalism 2017 – call for entries
The prestigious award will mark the centenary next year of the great literary maverick who wrote 400 pieces for the Observer
The Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2015 – call for entries
Here’s how to enter this year’s competition
Anthony Burgess’s first piece of work in the Guardian
A drawing by Anthony Burgess that appeared in the Manchester Guardian in 1929 was probably his first piece of work to be published
The Observer/Anthony Burgess prize 2014
Robert McCrum remembers the great writer Anthony Burgess as the arts journalism award in his name moves into its third year
Observer/Anthony Burgess runner-up essay: John Cage is 102 and originality is overrated, by Michael Perrett
Michael Perrett's exploration of ideas about originality and plagiarism won the runners-up prize for best arts journalism
Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay: Freaks by Roger Lewis
This year's £2,000 prize for the best arts journalism essay went to Roger Lewis's retrospective of the collaboration between drag artist Arthur Lucan and Dracula star Bela Lugosi
Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay: An Unlikely Arena: New Music at the Last Night of the Proms by Shaun Lyon
A witty and perceptive review of the Proms performance of Mark Simpson's sparks took the £2,000 prize for best arts journalism essay
Fizz, crackle and a bit of well-displayed erudition win arts essay competition
The first Observer/Anthony Burgess prize has gone to a writer with much in common with the novelist, reports Robert McCrum