The Pearl Prize

 

 

About The Pearl Prize: 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 residing in Australia, 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 are selected and published and the winner of The Pearl Prize announced during Midsumma Festival. The publication is released during Midsumma Festival and available to purchase.

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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.

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The Pearl  Prize 2025 entries have closed.

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