In a world where everything is becoming a shorter version of itself – op-eds become blog posts, blog posts get tweeted and tweets get deleted – the Sidney Prize stands athwart technology, yelling stop. It’s an annual award that honors some of the best long-form journalism and thought.

The Society’s highest honour, awarded annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the history of technology through research, teaching, publications or service to the Society. The prize includes a stipend, travel expenses to the meeting at which the prize will be presented and an opportunity to give a lecture on a topic of their choice in the field of the history of technology.

York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep has won the prestigious Sidney Edelstein Book Prize for his work on the history of technological disasters. The prize is the most coveted in the field of the history of technology, and Jones-Imhotep is only the second faculty member from a Canadian university to win it in its 50-year history.

The 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize was won by Annie Zhang for her story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’. Judges Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh read through over 500 entries to choose a shortlist of eight pieces, and then chose the winning story from this pool, along with two runners-up. The winner will receive a $5000 prize and have the story published in Overland, with the two runners-up receiving $750 each.

Overland is proud to announce the 2023 winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Supported by the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Awards, the prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion of ‘travel’; imaginative, creative and literary interpretations are encouraged.

A Chinese family celebrates not only Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year, but the festival of a lifetime. Using warm illustrations, this thoughtful look at two of the most important celebrations in the Chinese calendar shows how these holidays can bring families together and celebrate the joy of life.