The Sidney Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

The Sidney prize is awarded monthly to outstanding investigative journalism that exposes social and economic injustices. The prize honors the memory of labor leader Sidney Hillman, who championed the interests of the working class and believed in the importance of social change through public education, political activism and philanthropy. The Foundation is committed to continuing the legacy of Hillman’s commitment to the underdog, and to ensuring that the voices of ordinary people are heard.

The winner of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize will receive $5000 and will have their work published in Overland’s autumn 2024 issue. The two runners-up will each be awarded $750, and their work will also be published online. Laura Elvery, Paige Clark and Michael Winkler served as judges for the contest. The competition is open to readers from all countries and disciplines. Subscribers to Overland are eligible to compete for the prize at a discounted rate.

Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep of the Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS), has won the 2023 Sidney Edelstein Prize from The Society for the History of Technology for an article entitled “The Unreliable Nation: Disasters and History in the Cold War.” This is the first time that a scholar from Canada has received this highly prestigious prize.

Dr. Jones-Imhotep’s prize-winning article is an important contribution to the study of the Cold War, as well as of the development and understanding of modern technology. He has written a superb essay that will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of history, international relations and comparative government.

In addition to the Iwanter Prize, which is an unrestricted $2,000 award given to a graduating senior who, through their senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature, the Department of Art History offers several other prizes, including the Sidney Thomas Prize for best undergraduate paper in art history, which was founded in 1961 in memory of Professor Sidney Thomas, a distinguished scholar in the field of art history, who was dedicated to teaching and to encouraging student research in the humanities.

This year, the Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award was won by Saraid Taylor for her short film ‘The Labeller’ about a young athlete who uses a gift from her aunt to tame the world around her. The award was presented with a mesmeric swirl trophy, designed and made by Sydney-based designers, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs. The prize includes a cash prize of $7,000. This is the third year that the award has been presented. The other recipients are Chris Godfrey for ‘Bite the Hand’ and Robyn Liu for ‘The Dancing Girl and the Balloon Man’. The awards were presented at the Sydney Film Festival’s Awards Gala on Saturday night. The Gala is part of the Festival’s UNESCO City of Film program. For more information about the Awards and the Gala, please visit the SFF website.