A Sydney Prize is an award given to people for outstanding achievements, whether in terms of money or recognition in other ways. The aim is to acknowledge those who have done outstanding work while encouraging more of it from them in future – this can apply across fields from science to literature and beyond!
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is a progressive left-of-center organization that awards monetary prizes for journalism and public service. Established in 1946 in honor of Sidney Hillman, an early labor activist who led union president Sidney Hillman on labor issues, it currently operates under Bruce Raynor (former Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Unite Here leader).
Sydney Film Festival boasts a long list of prize winners for films and events presented during their Festival. Each winning entry receives the mesmeric swirl award designed and handmade in Sydney by Dinosaur Designs; awards are then distributed during an Awards Gala on the evening of a screening, where prize winners receive either cash or merchandise prizes as rewards for their participation.
Sidney Black was an accomplished electrical engineer during his lifetime, holding memberships in both the Royal Australian Electrical and Telecommunications Association and Institute of Electrical Engineers Australia; serving as chairman of its New South Wales State Branch branch; founding the Women’s Engineering Society, founding the Sidney Black Memorial Engineering Award as well as serving on its executive. These achievements all make Sidney an inspiring figure to female engineering students around Australia who aspire to explore all areas of engineering as part of their professional lives.
Stanford University’s Program on Negotiation has announced the following finalists for the 2022 Sidney H. Brudney Prize for Outstanding Student Paper in Corporate Governance. Winners will be revealed in May.
Overland magazine announced this year’s winners of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, including Ender Baskan of Vre Books for his piece entitled, ‘are You Ready Poem’ that “declares that artists must band together as a league as a radical alternative to precarity and professionalisation”.
Overland Magazine hosts one of the premier literary awards: the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Judges Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop, and Sara Saleh selected eight pieces that explored travel-themed topics as a part of this submissions pool; last month this shortlist was announced; overland also awarded two runners-up works: Gareth Morgan’s ‘the national debt” and Lillian Rupcic’s “stones”. All winning and runner-up entries can be read here.