The Sidney Prize and the Hillman Prize
The University of Sydney offers a wide variety of prizes for submissions in various written forms including poems, plays and essays. These are often awarded to students or scholars who are displaying excellent work or promise in their research field. Prizes are offered in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. All literary prize submissions require an application and the submission of written work on a selected topic. All work must be submitted under a nom de plume and be the original work of the applicant.
Winners of each Sydney Prize receive a mesmeric swirl award designed and handmade in Sydney by Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy at Dinosaur Designs. Prizes are listed in USD and converted into GBP and Euros at the mid-market exchange rate for each period. This is shown in the table below.
In memory of Sidney Howard, a dramatist who died tragically in 1939 at the age of forty-eight, this prize was established by the Playwrights’ Company to encourage and support new playwrights. It has been awarded to such distinguished writers as Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams, among others.
This award is given to a student in their first two years of graduate studies. The prize was endowed by the friends of the late Sidney Cox in his honour and is administered by a committee of former students, of whom Robert Frost ’96 and A. B. Guthrie are honorary chairmen and Budd Schulberg ’36 is active chairman.
The Society for the History of Technology has awarded York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep its 2018 Sidney Edelstein Prize – the most prestigious book prize in the history of technology. Jones-Imhotep, who teaches one of our most popular HIST courses at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS), was awarded the prize for his book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in Cold War America.
Each year, the Sydney Film Festival awards a number of prizes to filmmakers, writers and actors who have made outstanding contributions to Australian cinema. The full breakdown of prize money offered each year is shown below, along with the % increase from the previous year.
The Hillman Foundation is proud to announce that Philippe Sands KC, who leads the legal team at The Global Fund for Community Investments, has been named the 2024 recipient of our George Barrett Award. The prize is given to professionals whose career exemplifies the public spirit and activism of George Barrett by advancing human rights and addressing the legacies of colonialism. The prize includes a $20,000 honorarium and will be presented at the Foundation’s annual celebration in New York City. The Hillman Foundation also awards the monthly Sidney Prize, an honorarium that recognizes journalistic excellence in service to the common good.