The Sidney Prize is awarded monthly for outstanding journalism published in newspapers, magazines and websites. The winner receives a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel. Anyone can nominate a piece of journalism for the award by the last day of each month.
In an age of short attention spans and clickbait headlines, longform journalism and thought pieces remain effective ways of informing, inspiring and challenging readers. George Packer’s superb profile of Angela Merkel for The New Yorker is a prime example. It isn’t only a portrait of one of the most powerful women in the world; it also captures a different type of leader. Packer’s article depicts the evolution of a pragmatic, hardworking leader who is not a romantic visionary but rather a practical plodder whose determination and doggedness has made her a successful global powerhouse.
SHOT is proud to announce that York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep has won the 2023 Sidney Edelstein Prize for A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2022). The prize is the Society’s most prestigious book prize in the field of history of technology. Jones-Imhotep is only the second faculty member from a Canadian institution to win the prize in its 50-year history.
AIP is pleased to announce that physicist Sidney Perkowitz has won the 2023 Andrew Gemant Prize for his work connecting art, the media and literature to science. The award is named for the late professor who was an ardent proponent of humanistic scholarship and established two benchmark publications in the field of art history at Dartmouth College.
The Sydney Film Festival celebrates the very best in contemporary international cinema – audacious, cutting-edge and courageous. This year’s Official Competition line-up features nine illustrious awards with a record prize pool of $160,000.
The Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is open to Australian and New Zealand residents aged 18 or over who are the authors of a short story focused on travel themes. Winners and runners-up will be announced at the conclusion of the competition, and their stories will be published in Overland magazine’s autumn 2024 edition. The prize is supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and the NSW Government. Subscribers can enter the prize at a special discounted rate. For more information and to enter, visit the Overland website.