The Sydney Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

The Sydney Prize is awarded monthly to an outstanding piece of journalism that appeared in the prior month. Nominations must be made before the end of the day on the last calendar day of each month. The winner will receive a $3,000 honorarium and a certificate designed by New York Times cartoonist Edward Sorel. The winner is announced on the second Wednesday of each month.

The Sidney prize is one of the world’s leading awards for magazine articles. This year, many of the nominees probed the intersection between science and humanities. For example, intellectual heavyweights Leon Wieseltier and Steven Pinker went toe-to-toe over the role of science in modern thought, with Wieseltier arguing that it’s limited and narrow, while Pinker argued that science gives us insight into nearly everything.

Other Sydney prize winners include Kate Carte, for Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History (Southern Methodist University and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021). The Sydney E. Mead Prize honors an exceptional book on the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the previous calendar year.

To win a Sydney Prize, players must be a legal permanent resident of the fifty (50) United States or Washington D.C. who has reached the age of majority (which is eighteen (18) in most states and nineteen (19) in Alabama, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Washington D.C). Employees, officers, directors and immediate family/household members of the Promoter and its affiliates are not eligible to participate in the promotion. The Promoter reserves the right to verify any eligibility of entries at any time.

SFCU Cash Giveaway Terms & Conditions

Winners must present a valid identification document matching the name on the Sydney Prize voucher upon claim. Prizes are not transferable, and the promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equivalent value without notice. Prizes must be redeemed within 3 months of the date of issue. Any prize not redeemed will be forfeited and reinvested in promoting chess in Sydney.

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

Overland’s editors, Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop, and Sara Saleh, selected a shortlist of eight pieces that “struck the judges as particularly original, imaginative and well written.” The winning authors will be revealed on September 27.

The award was named after Sydney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union and a predecessor to Unite Here and Workers United, SEIU. The prize is administered by the left-of-center Sidney Hillman Foundation, whose leadership includes former SEIU president emeritus Bruce Raynor. In addition to monetary prizes, the foundation funds research on labor issues. The organization has also received criticism from its critics for supporting unions with controversial policies and for its financial support of celebrity activists. The foundation has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote social justice and progressive ideas. The foundation has a board that is dominated by left-leaning union leaders. The foundation also provides grants to journalists. The foundation is funded by a variety of private and public sources, including the Ford Foundation.