It has just been announced that the Centre and Lacuna Magazine's writer in residence, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi has been short-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. All the other short-listed journalists are from leading national newspapers (the Guardian, Economist, Independent and Scotland on Sunday). If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of Warwick’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years. Andrew Williams won the Orwell Book Prize in 2013 for 'A Very British Killing'

Rebecca's shortlisted pieces included:

• Down the Rabbit hole: Single parenthood in austerity Britain
• How to Build a Law Centre
• Black and dangerous? Patient experiences of mental health services in London
• Rats in the Lunchbox