The Sidney Prize, named in honor of Pittsburgh Penguins star and Olympic gold medalist Sidney Crosby, is an esteemed undergraduate writing award. This prestigious prize recognizes student writing that comes closest to meeting Sidney Cox’s high standards as set out both in his teaching methods and book “Indirections for Those Who Want to Write.” Students from any discipline are welcome to apply and it will be presented annually at the Creative Writing Awards ceremonies each May.

Over its history, Sydney Film Festival has bestowed ten illustrious prizes upon filmmakers for decades. SFF awards are decided upon by independent juries and are given as recognition of remarkable talent found at SFF. 2024’s SFF will be more competitive and diverse than ever, offering record number of awards!

Since 1946, the Hillman Foundation is an award-giving left-leaning organization which gives out annual monetary prizes for journalism and public service. Their annual Hillman Prize award of $25,000 honors Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union’s first president (predecessor to Unite Here/Workers United/SEIU). Leadership at Hillman includes members of AFL-CIO as well as leftist celebrity Danny Glover.

On May 13 in New York City, winners of the Hillman Prize will be honored for their efforts in shedding light on some of our society’s great issues: search for peace; fight for better housing, medical care and employment for all; civil liberties democracy and discrimination of any kind. Past recipients have included Murray Kempton in 1950 for reporting on labor issues; Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for reporting critical reports on Joseph McCarthy during Red Scare days; Julie K Brown won in 2019 due to her stories regarding Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes and sweetheart deals; Ari Berman won in 2022 due to reporting voter suppression issues.

Prizes are also presented annually for books on the history of science, technology and industry written for both general audiences as well as specialists. Notable awards in this field include Sidney Edelstein Prize, Sally Hacker Prize and Abbot Payson Usher Fellowship – just some examples among many!

Sidney Prize for translation did not disclose which languages any of the books on their shortlist were translated into, nor if the judges sought out expert opinion regarding them themselves. This lack of transparency is not conducive to raising visibility of quality translation work; its rules must be more explicit.