The prize honors the memory of Sidney Cox, a Dartmouth professor of English from 1927 to 1952. The Foundation administers the prize in collaboration with a committee of former students and friends, including Robert Frost ’96 as honorary chairman and Budd Schulberg ’36 as active chairman. The winner receives $500 and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel. The prize is awarded monthly for an outstanding piece of journalism that exposes social and economic injustices. Nominations may be made by individuals or groups. The deadline for nominations is the last day of each month. Nominations should be based on a piece that appeared in print or online during the previous month.
The 2024 winner of the Event Cinemas Rising Talent Award is Bridget Morrison, lead actor of Say. The winner will receive a cash prize of $7,000. This award is open to film creatives, directors and screenwriters who have less than five short film credits. The Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award recognizes a trailblazing NSW-based practitioner whose work stands for innovation, imagination and high impact. The award comes with a $10,000 cash prize and is presented by Screen NSW.
Each year, the University offers a range of literary prizes in a number of different categories. The majority of these are for the submission of a piece of written work, usually an essay or poem, on a selected topic. In some cases, the University reserves the right not to award a prize if the work is judged to be inadequate in quality. Applicants for prizes must provide a copyright release form and may be required to submit their work under a pseudonym if desired.
There are a number of prestigious literary awards in the United States, some of which have long histories dating back to bequests received at the beginning of the 20th century. Almost all literary prizes require an application and the submission of a piece of written work on a subject chosen by the judging panel. In many cases, the work will be submitted under a pseudonym and will be published in Overland.
Moreover, there are a few scholarly prizes in the field of history. The Society for the History of Technology, for example, awards the Sidney Edelstein Prize annually for an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology. The 2023 winner was Stephan Miescher for A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2022).
Other prestigious literary awards include the Pulitzer Prize, which is given to an individual writer for a distinguished body of work. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international prize for literature, awarded to writers who have produced “works of exceptional merit.” In the past, the Nobel Prize has been given to authors such as Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemingway. The Booker Prize, on the other hand, is a British award for fiction. The judges for the Nobel Prize are chosen by a group of eminent literary scholars and academics.
