Annual literary prizes require submission of a written work, often an essay on a specific topic. Prizes have been awarded in many forms including poetry, plays and essays. Some of these prizes have a long history, others have been established recently. All have the purpose of encouraging and rewarding scholarship. Many prize winners are known for their publications which have become classics of their field.
The annual Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize is an open competition, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Each year the judges choose a winner and two runners-up. The winning entry is published in Overland’s autumn issue. The runners-up stories appear online. Overland is grateful to our judges, Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh, who spent a great deal of time considering the submitted works.
Since 1950 the Hillman Prize program has honored contributors to the daily and periodical press who pursue investigative reporting in service of the common good. The award is named after labor leader Sidney Hillman, a founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and an architect of the New Deal.
Each year the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) awards a book prize to an author whose work has made a significant contribution to the study of the history of science and technology and can be understood by both specialist and non-specialist readers. The author of the winning book receives a cash prize and a plaque. The award is based on an evaluation of the book by members of SHOT’s awards and prizes committee.
Clare Jackson, a former Sidney Taylor Manuscript award winner and Junior Research Fellow has won one of the most prestigious prizes for historical writing for her scholarly work on royalist ideas in late-seventeenth century Scotland. Her book, Royalist Ideas in Scotland, was published by Oxford University Press and is a key text in the field of early modern Scottish history. AJL is proud to have sponsored the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for many years and has encouraged scholars of all levels to try their hand at historical writing. Authors whose manuscripts have won the award and have been successfully published can apply to have their books carry the Sydney Taylor seal.
The annual Sydney Taylor Lectureship is given in honour of Professor Sir William Taylor who was a distinguished historian and former Dean of Sydney University. It is funded by donations from members of the Dartmouth community, particularly those who knew Professor Sidney Cox well. Contributions can be sent to Professor Harry T. Schultz ’37 at 1 Occom Ridge in Hanover and should be marked for the attention of the Committee on the Sydney Taylor Lectureship Fund.