Sidney Prize is a monthly award that honors journalism that pursues investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service to the common good. The foundation has been giving these awards since 1950 and it will continue to do so in 2025, with a new emphasis on social justice impact.
Siblings who work together can be a powerful force in the world, especially when they’re working towards the same goal. This was the case for a Sidney, Australia-based couple who used their shared love of music and business to build one of the most successful record labels in the region. Their success has helped them create a life that they’re proud of and have inspired others to follow their footsteps.
The upcoming 2024 Salmon Derby has more than $24,000 in cash and merchandise prizes up for grabs. All participants in the derby are eligible to win a prize, regardless of whether they’re participating as an individual or with a team. The total cash prize pool is divided into three categories — heaviest fish, most points earned, and best overall performance. The first place winner will receive a cash prize of $16,000, followed by second place with $10,000 and third place with $7,000.
A former Sidney student has won a major literary award for her acclaimed book about royalist ideas in seventeenth century Scotland. Clare Jackson completed a Junior Research Fellowship at Sidney before returning to Trinity Hall, where she is Senior Tutor and Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History. Her latest book, ‘The Great Reformer’, has received widespread acclaim and won numerous awards including the 2020 Sidney prize from the Society of American Historical Review.
This year, the Society for the History of Technology awarded a Sidney prize for its outstanding scholarly book in the field to Stephan Miescher’s A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2022). The society’s prestigious Sidney M. Edelstein Prize is named in honour of the late Sir Walter Russell Mead, whose essay “The Once and Future Liberalism” was a Sidney prize winner in 2000.
The Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is open to writers nationally and internationally at any stage of their career. The competition is judged by Overland magazine and its editorial team, with two runners-up receiving $750 each. The winning short story will be published in Overland and will be worth AUD $5000. The winner will also be featured on the Overland website. See the table below for more information on the prize and how it works.