This year, a handful of scholars from the NAS community have won or been nominated for prestigious awards. The prizes, recognizing the best work in their fields, are presented at a ceremony held each spring. Winners are able to use the prize money for research or publication of their work.
Earlier this month, a University of Sydney team was awarded a prestigious Eureka prize — Australia’s ‘Science Oscars’. The award is presented each year for an outstanding scientific achievement in the areas of research and innovation, leadership and science engagement. Read more about the winning team and their research here.
The 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, is open to short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion of ‘travel’. The winner receives $5000 and their story will be published in Overland, while two runners-up will each receive $750.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! The winning poet is writer, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books Ender Baskan for his work ‘are you ready poem’. The judges were impressed by his ‘rallying cry for artists and writers to make something dangerous and start an artists and writers league as a radical alternative to precarity and professionalisation’. The winning short story is Claire Aman’s ‘Who Rattles the Night?’ which follows a couple who move into their new home and find themselves sharing their space with ghosts.
The annual Sidney Cox Prize is awarded in memory of Professor Sidney Cox, who taught English at Dartmouth from 1927 to 1952 and authored the influential textbook Indirections for Those Who Want to Write. Any undergraduate writing may be submitted; the committee administering the competition is comprised of Professor Cox’s former students and friends, with Robert Frost ’96 and A. B. Guthrie as honorary chairmen and Budd Schulberg ’36 as active chairman.
Ron Rash, a novelist, poet and short story writer, has won the 2020 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature, awarded by the Spencer B. King Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University. The prize is given to writers who have distinguished themselves in the tradition of Southern literature and culture. It carries a cash prize of $15,000 and merchandise prizes totaling $30,000. The full list of winners can be found here.