The Sydney Prize is an award presented monthly for outstanding pieces of socially conscious journalism. Nominations for yourself or another’s work must be received by the last day of each month and can include either yours or someone else’s work. Winners receive $500 plus an exclusive certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel as well as union made wine produced at union farms. It is sponsored by Sidney Hillman Foundation who also gives out annual Hillman Prizes every spring.
The University of Sydney offers literary prizes to encourage submissions of poems, plays and essays on a given topic. These awards are in addition to our various scholarships, grants and medals; for more details including how to apply, please see our prize pages. All prize winners must sign a copyright release form prior to receiving their award; please download it here.
Dr Clare Jackson is one of the world’s foremost historians working today. As former Junior Research Fellow at Sidney, she has published several highly-acclaimed books such as her recent publication ‘The Royalist Ideas of Sir William Lauder’ (Harvard UP 2023) which received one of history’s highest honours: The Sidney Clarke Award.
Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and named for Neilma Gantner, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks exceptional short fiction of up to 3000 words loosely themed around travel. Open to writers nationally and internationally at any stage in their careers. First place receives $5000 along with publication in Overland magazine while two runner-up stories will also be published online alongside autumn 2024 edition of Overland.
Winners of the Sidney Prize will be announced monthly, with all submissions considered for Hillman Prizes as well as other SFF events and publications in 2019. Winners will be presented their prize at the Shedd Aquarium Awards Dinner on June 2020 in Melbourne.
The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were established by the trustees of Sir Sidney Myer Fund in 1984 to recognize outstanding achievements in dance, drama, music opera and circus/puppetry performances. These prestigious awards celebrate outstanding accomplishments within these fields of endeavour.
Sir Sidney Myer was an enthusiastic supporter of the arts, so in his honor and memory these awards are generously supported by both his family and Australia’s Ministry for the Arts.
SHOT is now accepting nominations for its various prizes, which include the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship, Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship, Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize, Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Prize and Sidney Edelstein Prize.
This event provides an ideal platform to recognize and honor outstanding historical work of technology, and to demonstrate its relevance for contemporary society. Please see the individual prize pages for details on how to nominate books for consideration for the Leonardo da Vinci Medal or for other prizes, and their deadlines.