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25 Jan 2026

Sat, 24th, Jan, 2026: Oscar Revelins, Author of Delicate Friends

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Sat, 24th, Jan, 2026: Oscar Revelins, Author of Delicate Friends

Nevena and Macca talk to Oscar Revelins, live in the studio to talk to about the process of going about being published in Australia if you’re a new author.

Oscar Revelins studied theatre, film, and television at the University of California, Los Angeles, before pivoting to English Literature and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia.

He was born in Melbourne, spent nine years in Los Angeles, and then two in Perth, before settling back in Melbourne, where he currently resides.

In 2025, he published his debut novel Delicate Friends, won the Varnish Prize for Fiction with The Light Declines, received third prize at the My Brother Jack Literary Awards with Bishops, and was selected for the Perth Queer Film Festival with After The Funeral.

In 2024, he was published on the Grattan Street Press blog with his article What I Wish I’d Known Trying to Publish a Book at 23 with No Connections.

As a teenager in high school, his two novellas Smoke Tricks and Deserted received gold and silver keys respectively from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2017.

https://www.oscarrevelins.com/delicatefriends

Perth, Western Australia. Spring bleeds into a sweltering summer as twenty-year-old Austin finds himself in unfamiliar territory. After abandoning his grief-stained life in Melbourne, reinvention could be his salvation – if only he knew where to find it.

As Austin navigates class dynamics, social isolation, and a taut relationship with his estranged cousin, he meets Ezra: handsome, older, and romantically jaded. Where Austin is reckless and petulant, Ezra is measured and guarded, though despite their polarity, they find themselves entangled in an unorthodox friendship that teeters between desire and disaster.

When wounds from both their pasts reopen, they must face the uncertainty of vulnerability or risk losing themselves – and each other – in the process.

‘Delicate Friends’ explores the thrilling yet painful grey area between friends and lovers, and charts the masochistic games we play in the pursuit of belonging.