Sidney Prize is a literary award given annually to an undergraduate student for writing that meets high standards of originality and integrity. The prize honours the memory of Sidney Cox, who was a distinguished teacher and author, and is open to all students. Submissions can be in any kind of written form — essays, poems, plays, etc. Students can enter under their own names or use pseudonyms.
The winner receives a $5000 prize and the two runners-up will each receive $750. The winning story will be published in Overland’s autumn 2024 issue, and the runners-up stories will appear online. The winners will be announced at our annual Creative Writing Awards ceremony each May.
Winners of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize have been announced by Overland. Writer, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books Ender Baskan has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Are you ready?’, which Overland describes as “a rallying cry for artists and writers to make something dangerous”.
In the short story category, Overland has awarded the prize to Annie Zhang for her work ‘Who Rattles the Night?’. This story was selected from a shortlist of eight. The judges and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation congratulate them both.
Sidney prize
Sidney is a monthly prize awarded to investigative journalism that fosters social justice. The prize is named after Sidney Hook, the American philosopher in whose name the National Association of Scholars confers an award at its national conference to an individual who has made significant contributions to the defense of academic freedom and the integrity of the academy.
A new book on a controversial figure from the history of science has won the 2018 Sidney Edelstein Prize, the most prestigious book prize in its field. The book by York University historian Edward Jones-Imhotep is entitled The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War.
This prize honours a distinguished Australian writer of fiction, nonfiction, biography or autobiography, preferably in English, for a work that makes a significant contribution to understanding the human condition. The work should demonstrate the author’s mastery of language and stylistic elegance and be able to appeal to a broad general audience.
The Sidney Howard Memorial Prize was a theater prize given to promising young playwrights until 1939, when it was discontinued. It was established in honour of the American dramatist Sidney Howard (1891-1939), who was a founding member of the Playwrights’ Company in 1895 and died in 1939, crushed by a tractor while working on his farm.
The Sidney Hillman Prize honors journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. The prize is open to journalists and subjects globally, although the work must be intended for and accessible to a U.S audience. The Hillman Prize is a supplement to Overland’s monthly Sidney prize, which is also a supplement to our SEIU award for reporting on economic and racial justice.