Last chance to enter! The 2025 Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism closes soon

Last year’s winner, Oscar Jelley, with guest judge and Observer art critic Laura Cumming. Jelley won the £3,000 prize for his review of Isabel Waidner’s novel Corey Fah Does Social Mobility. Photograph: The Observer

Are you a budding culture reviewer? Do you come out of a new show or finish the last page of a book and itch to open your laptop and set down your thoughts about why you so enjoyed – or detested – it?

The deadline – 28 February – is looming for the 2025 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism. Established in 2012 with a prize fund of £4,000, this is the UK’s leading award for emerging critics.