2024 WINNERS
Follow a Chinese Jewish family as they celebrate both Rosh Hashanah in fall and the Lunar New Year in early spring, with warm illustrations that evoke paper cutting traditions. A lovely and thoughtful book about the joy of tradition.
The highly prestigious Sidney Prize highlights the best magazine essays of the year, and this year’s selections probed some of the thorniest issues in modern publishing. Intellectual heavyweights Steven Pinker and Leon Wieseltier went toe-to-toe in The New Republic over the proper role of science in our modern thought, with Pinker taking the expansive view that, despite what some blinkered humanities professors might think, we now have insight into nearly everything.
Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are pleased to announce the winner and runners-up of the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. The judges, Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh, reviewed over 500 entries to select the shortlist of eight pieces. Annie Zhang, a writer living on unceded Wangal land, has won the first prize of $5000 with her story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’. Overland will publish the winning story in our autumn issue, and the two runners-up will be published online.