award honors the work of emerging NSW-based film creatives who demonstrate exceptional innovation, imagination and impactful storytelling in their filmmaking efforts. Winners receive both a cash prize as well as the Dinosaur Designs-designed Event Cinemas Rising Talent award.
The Sir Sidney Myer Fund trustees established the Sidney Performing Arts Awards as a way of remembering Sir Sidney Myer and celebrating the performing arts until 2023. Originally, these awards celebrated theatre.
Overland is delighted to recognize Annie Zhang as the winner of the 2023 Neilma Sydney Short Story Prize with her story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’ The contest was open to Australian writers, receiving over 500 submissions themed loosely around travel and judged by Patrick Lenton and Alice Bishop who were impressed by all aspects of imagination, creativity and literary interpretation of travel themes in these stories. Annie will have her story published in Overland while each runner-up will receive $750 AUD as prizes.
The Hillman Foundation takes its responsibility as a free press seriously, and has awarded thousands in scholarships, lecture series on college campuses, investigative reporting projects and investigative reporting projects since 1950. Furthermore, they support the Sidney Hillman Awards for Journalism in Service of the Common Good which recognize outstanding reporting and storytelling from reporters and journalists who excel.
Each year, the Foundation recognizes an individual or organization whose work embodies the vision and values of Sidney Hillman, an award-winning union organizer and New Deal architect. These awards highlight some of the major issues of our time such as: finding an enduring peace foundation; seeking economic justice and security for all people; increasing civic participation and democracy; fighting discrimination based on race, nationality or religion.
Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies awards The Lanier Prize each year in recognition of 19th-century southern poet Sidney Lanier, with its selection committee comprised of professors and eminent scholars of Southern literature – this year Dr. David A. Davis from their English Department was selected. Dr Davis commented on Elizabeth Spencer’s writing style that excels in exploring obstacles that threaten human decency within Southern culture; with her fearlessness and depth of knowledge setting her apart from other regional writers.”