About The Pearl Prize 2025 Writers Award
The Pearl Prize is presented with Osborne and Fawkner Publishing and supported by Midsumma Festival. A writing award where Queer writers have a platform of self-expression through the writing landscape and into publication.
Writers can submit writing in any form of prose or poetry to a literary panel and begin their journey in the Australian writing scene. 15 finalists will be selected and published and the winner of The Pearl Prize announced during Midsumma Festival 2025. The publication will be released during Midsumma Festival and available to purchase.
The pearl prize and what the meaning of Pearl is; quite simply the pearl in the oyster and romantic connotations in queer life and love since inception.
The Pearl Prize is symbolic of all LGBTQIA people from all backgrounds, walks of life in love and support.
The theme for 2025 is:
Queerness beyond the ML and AI in (A) ARTificial space.
The Pearl Prize 2025 is stretching into the parameters of AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) by presenting stories about contemporary, past or futuristic possibilities of humans finding connection between the machine mechanisms of the created and us and the nuances in relationships within the Queer realm.
IS THE FUTURE NOW?
The Winner of The Pearl Prize will receive a gift which includes a cash payment, to set their typewriter tapping.
$500
There will also be a Highly Commended awarded to a Writer of merit, which includes a cash payment.
$300
The Pearl Prize will be presented during Midsumma Festival 2025. The Award will be presented at The Victorian Pride Centre. A meet-and-greet Event of the Authors will take place at Readings.
And drum roll please… a fantabulous panel evening to shine those pearls….
https://www.osborneandfawknerpublishinghq.com/the-pearl-prize
