If you want to make an impactful difference, one avenue of possibility may be applying for a Sidney Prize award. There are various forms available and they’re tailored towards many fields; but before exploring your options further there are a few things you need to keep in mind in order to maximize your application experience. These tips will ensure a positive application experience.
Literary Sydney Prizes come in all forms and sizes, often requiring students to submit written work for evaluation by experts in their field. Winners often receive both monetary compensation and publication rights for their works as well as greater insight into their field of study.
Other Sydney prizes emphasize peace with justice and diversity inclusion, awarding individuals or groups who advance these principles, such as this year’s Black Lives Matter Sydney Peace Prize given to founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi of Black Lives Matter Sydney; furthermore the MAK Halliday Postgraduate Research Prize recognizes linguistics postgraduate students who present at academic conferences or publish their works.
A Sydney Prize can be used to recognize students for outstanding academic achievements in health sciences. This prize can be distributed among multiple recipients depending on the quality of applications received, with each winner receiving one payment worth $500 in one lump sum.
This prize was established to recognize and commemorate Dr. Cox’s extraordinary impact on Dartmouth students both inside and outside his classes, both during his teaching tenure as well as through other avenues such as his advice. We hope to replicate his effect by encouraging future generations of science students by rewarding undergraduate writing that most closely meets his high standards for originality and integrity as set by him and his students.
Annie Zhang won the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize with her short story ‘Who Rattles the Night? ‘, which depicts a couple’s struggle to adjust to their new home. Judges Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop, and Sara Saleh selected it from an eight-story shortlist and will publish her work in Overland’s autumn issue while two runners-up will have their stories published online; all thanks to support from Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Annie Zhang lives on unceded Wangal land where her work has appeared in Island, Kill Your Darlings and Big Issue magazines among many others; in 2019 she was selected as WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellow Fellow by WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellow program (WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellow program).