The Sidney Prize and Other AwardsThe Sidney Prize and Other Awards
The sidney prize is an award that honors individuals or groups for advancing human rights and nonviolence. It is one of several prizes awarded by the sydney prize foundation. Other prizes are granted to journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and the common good. The Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi were this year’s winners of the Sydney peace prize.
The Sir Sydney Smith Prize for History of Ideas is a biennial award of £15,000 for an outstanding work in the field of history of ideas that demonstrates exceptional originality and insight. It was established in 1924 in memory of the eminent Victorian polymath Sir Sydney Smith (1850–1924) and is supported by the University of Cambridge. The winner is presented with the prize at a special dinner held annually in the Hall of Trinity College, where Sir Sydney was an occasional visitor.
Each year the Sir Sydney Smith Prize for History of Ideas is judged by a panel of distinguished historians and a lay member of the Society. The selection committee is chaired by Professor Steven Shavell of the University of Oxford. In the past, the prize has been awarded to works on philosophy, mathematics, political theory and jurisprudence. The 2024 winner was James Levine for his work on the philosophy of space and time, titled Spacetime: A Philosophical Introduction.
HLS offers a variety of awards that recognize student academic excellence. Some require students to submit written work and others do not. Most of the writing prizes require that the paper be a student research paper, but there are exceptions. The Yong Kim Memorial Prize in East Asian Legal Studies is awarded to an outstanding student whose paper addresses issues of significance to the Law School community and who exhibits Yong Kim’s interest in and enthusiasm for fostering U.S.-East Asian understanding, and plans a career that will advance these interests.
The John Templeton Foundation’s Andrew Gemant Award honors a physicist for his or her enduring commitment to connecting art, the media and literature to science through books, lectures and other forms of communication. The 2024 winner was physicist and author Sidney Perkowitz for his work on the cultural, artistic and humanistic dimension of physics.
Overland is a literary journal that publishes short fiction, poetry and essays from Australia and beyond. The prize is open to anyone who writes in English. Stories are accepted from any country and may be nominated for the prize in either their original language or translated into English.
Entries are considered anonymously. Writers can enter more than one story, but each must be entered separately and accompanied by the appropriate fee. Taking out a subscription to Overland gives you discounted entry to the competition. It also includes access to the daily online magazine and invitations to subscriber events, opportunities and giveaways. More information about the competition is available on our submissions page. The deadline is the last day of each month.