From the annual Archibald Prize to Sydney Film Festival’s coveted Event Cinemas Rising Talent award, we have a wide range of prizes to recognise the best in NSW film creatives. All winners receive a mesmerising swirl medal, designed and handmade in house at Sydney Film Festival.
The prestigious Sidney Prize is awarded each year to an individual or organisation who has promoted peace with justice and human rights through non-violent means. This year’s winner, the Black Lives Matter movement, was founded by Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi after the George Zimmerman verdict in 2013. The prize will be presented at Sydney Film Festival in November this year.
Literary Prizes
The university awards a number of scholarships and prizes in recognition of academic achievement. These include the Philip Sidney Cox Scholarship, which honours that student in the English Honors Program whose thesis and overall work most nearly meet the high standards of originality and integrity set by Professor Cox in his teaching. It also honours that student who has made exceptional service to the department and the major.
All of our literary prizes are by application and selection, and require submission of written work on a selected topic. Each requires a short essay (around 500 words) or poem. Prizes are generally awarded on the basis of merit, but may also take into account a number of other factors including previous success in competitions and/or publications. You can find further details on all our literary prizes here.
We’re pleased to announce the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner: Annie Zhang! Annie is a writer, editor and publisher who lives on unceded Wangal land. She has published stories in Island, Kill Your Darlings and elsewhere. Her winning story, ‘Who Rattles the Night?’, will be published in Overland magazine. The competition was judged by a panel of expert readers and was open to writers from Australia and around the world.
Founded in 1968, the Sidney J. Levy Memorial Scholarship is an annual award given in memory of one of the founders of Consumer Culture Theory, a research area that studies the role and nature of consumer culture. The scholarship is intended to support the author of an outstanding article based on a dissertation-oriented dissertation that is published in an academic journal in the field of Consumer Culture Theory.
Each month the Sidney Hillman Prize is awarded to an outstanding piece of journalism that exposes social or economic injustice. Nominations can be submitted for any work that was published online during the prior month. Winners are announced the second Wednesday of each month. Nominations are due by the last day of each month.