Day: December 5, 2024

The Sidney Prize is an award that honors investigative journalism in service of the common good. Since 1950, Hillman Foundation prize programs have honored contributors to the daily press, periodical and labor presses, as well as writers and broadcasters in traditional and new media forms. The foundation also awards the Hillman/SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice.

The Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is open to undergraduate students, and prize winners will have their work published in Overland, with a small cash award. The judges for this year’s competition are Laura Elvery, Paige Clark, and Michael Winkler. To enter the prize, click here. Subscribers to Overland are eligible to enter at a discounted rate; you can join here.

In the spirit of the foundation’s founder, Sir Sidney Cox, the Sidney Prize is awarded to a student who submits an essay or story that is characterized by its originality and integrity as set forth in his teaching methods and book Indirections for Those Who Want to Write. The prize is named for Sir Sidney’s devotion to high ideals. To see previous winners, click here.

Mercer University’s Southern Studies Program has established the annual Sidney Prize for Southern Literature to honor the work of writers in the South. The Sidney Prize is open to both fiction and nonfiction works that explore the region’s cultural, historical, and social traditions. To be considered for the prize, manuscripts must be submitted by March 1. Winners will receive a $5,000 prize and an inscribed certificate.

Every year, the Society for History of Technology (SHOT) names its top three scholarly books in the field of technology history. These are the Sidney Edelstein, Sally Hacker, and Joan Cahalin Robinson prizes.

In addition to these major prizes, the foundation awards monthly Sidney awards for investigative journalism in service of the common good. The foundation also administers the SEIU Hillman Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Injustice, and all Sidney Prize entries are automatically considered for this award.

The prize is named for Philip Sidney Ardern, a noted English scholar who taught at Auckland University College. Although it is primarily meant to promote the study of Old and Middle English literature, its scope is broad enough to encompass the work that most closely meets Professor Ardern’s standards of excellence. For more information, please see the Prize Regulations.