UPCOMING EVENTS:
The Pearl Prize
Award Presentation
The Victorian Pride Centre
Midsumma Festival 2025
Saturday 26th January 2pm
The Pearl Prize Meet and Greet
Readings St Kilda
Sunday 2nd February 3pm
Midsumma Festival 2025
The Pearl Prize
Evening Panel Event
proudly at
The Wheeler Centre
Thursday 6th February, 6pm
Midsumma Festival 2025
BOOKS
COMING SOON:
The Pearl Prize 2025
The Pearl Prize is presented by Osborne and Fawkner Publishing and supported by Midsumma Festival and City of Port Phillip.
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.
Finalists were selected from across Australia. Their words within these pages, touch on lived experience, a little fantasy, and a lot of self-expression, from writers within the LGBTQIA+ community.
So, open the pages and celebrate Queer writing in all of the glorious forms…
Coming Soon January 2025.
Chunk Volume 1
Osborne and Fawkner is producing a new Australian and New Zealand Comic Volume.
CHUNK Volume 1 is for your nattiest comic fantasies.
LAUNCHING IN 2025!
AVAILABLE NOW
A QUEER BLOOM ON AUSTRALIA'S WRITING LANDSCAPE.
The Pearl Prize 2024 is presented by Osborne and Fawkner Publishing and supported by Midsumma Festival. The theme of The Pearl Prize 2024 is A Brave(R) Space.Think about what bravery feels like to you and what creates a brave space. How have creatives, throughout queer history and in the present, presented their own take on bravery and fierceness.15 finalists were selected from across Australia. Their words within these pages, touch on lived experience, a little fantasy, and a lot of self-expression, from writers within the LGBTQIA+ community. So, open the pages and celebrate bravery, pride, and all of us gorgeous humans... just the way we are.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Adam Fawcett
T.L Jones.
Liz Sutherland
Hope Lee Sneddon
Kaliste Hardy
Henri de Groot
Julien Furnace
Niko Satria
Spencer MF Rodrick
Cat Nadel
Philip Soliman
Alex Creece
Nathan McDonald
Sam Elkin
DECADENCE
Martha Ackroyd Curtis
Photography/Writing
This photographic publication is a ravishing ride of which includes a depth of artistic sensibility rarely seen. Sets of collections found within the pages give a tantalising glimpse into scenes like stills from classic cinema. Artistic and conceptual photographic collections such as; HER The photographic series. Then on to the slickness of LIVE photography. LIVE AND FIERCE photographs featuring well known Australian's from the iconic band Electric Fields and the dynamic performance duo The Huxley's.
Reviews
'Ackroyd Curtis is a triple threat artist leading a trail blazing with talent.'
The Age & Sydney Morning Herald
'Poetry of movement'- The Age, Sweat Exhibition, Midsumma Festival 2020
'With confidence and humour Martha Ackroyd Curtis' photography captures the drama of life', - ART / EDIT Magazine 2022
Hello Titty
Martha Ackroyd Curtis
Poetry and Photography
A collection of poems and visuals for all women kind. The photographs chosen for this volume are selected based on delicacy, a little bit of smut, power, and an extra strong dosage of humour. ENJOY.
Martha Ackroyd Curtis presented HELLO TITTY through interviews on Radio Adelaide, Joy FM Informer, Joy TV's Kerrie and Dolly's House Party which was streamed on Victoria Together, Joy FM, Midsumma Festival, Star Observor, and Melbourne Queer Film Festival. She was also featured in Australian Arts Review.
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Osborne and Fawkner is an independent publishing house, founded in Naarm, Australia. We publish independent writing, art and design. We collaborate with industry professionals, arts and culture organistations and international festivals.