The Sidney Prize for Undergraduate Writing
The Sidney Prize is awarded to undergraduate writing in English that most nearly meets the high standards of originality and integrity set by the prize’s namesake. The prize is open to any type of undergraduate writing, regardless of subject matter or genre and may be a piece of creative work or a written essay, report or other document. The prize is named in honour of Sidney Cox, a distinguished professor of English who was known for his dedication to the teaching and study of language and literature.
The prize is worth £3,000 and will be presented at an awards ceremony to be held in March 2020. The winner will also be awarded a £1,500 scholarship towards the cost of attending the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR), which will take place in Bristol in November 2021.
A former student and Junior Research Fellow at Sidney has won one of history’s most prestigious prizes for her book on royalist ideas in late-seventeenth century Scotland. Dr Clare Jackson has won the Society for the History of Technology’s 2018 Sidney Edelstein Prize for her book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in Cold War America.
She is only the third person to have won this coveted award since it was established in 1994. Previous winners include the author of The Glass Cage, a novel that was turned into an award-winning film starring Liam Neeson. The book has also been adapted for the stage, with a production by the Royal Court Theatre in London starring Miranda Richardson and Mark Gatiss.
In addition to the prize money, the winning essay will be published in Overland. Two runners-up will receive a cash prize of $750 each, and their essays will be published in Overland in the Summer 2023 edition.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation has awarded 73 prizes since its inception in 1950. The annual prize program aims to honor and encourage investigative reporting, deep storytelling, and the search for truth in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes have honored writers from the daily, weekly, and periodical press; authors; and those working in photojournalism and, more recently, on the web and in opinion and analysis.
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