Steve MinOn
@minon.bsky.social
Meanjin/Brisbane Author. Queensland Literary Award winning debut novel ‘First Name Second Name’ now out via UQP. Former adman. Contributor to SBS Voices. Agent Martin Shaw.
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Australian author Helen Garner is now so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. Wrote this piece for @artshub.bsky.social.
Why do we love Helen Garner so much?
From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better part of 50 years.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Australian author Helen Garner is now so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. Wrote this piece for @artshub.bsky.social.
I made them say POO
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September 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I made them say POO
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Please vote for my book First Name Second Name in The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award and let’s see if this little queer book about Chinese Hopping Vampires and 4 generations of migrant families can shake the literary tree in QLD.
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The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
About the award Part of the Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award is for an outstanding book of fiction or non-fiction by a…
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September 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Please vote for my book First Name Second Name in The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award and let’s see if this little queer book about Chinese Hopping Vampires and 4 generations of migrant families can shake the literary tree in QLD.
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“Popularity, however, is no defence against the literary‑prohibition complex…” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read
From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present
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August 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“Popularity, however, is no defence against the literary‑prohibition complex…” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
If people are using AI to write better emails, they will use it to write better social media posts and then they will use it to write better comments. Then the algorithm can hate rage against the algorithm and AI will cancel itself.
August 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If people are using AI to write better emails, they will use it to write better social media posts and then they will use it to write better comments. Then the algorithm can hate rage against the algorithm and AI will cancel itself.
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I don’t often read novels, having little time & a lot of poetry books to get through, but I’ve just finished reading @minon.bsky.social ‘s novel ‘First Name Second Name’—such an original, complex, & moving book! I highly recommend it. Join me for the book club at ACE next Friday if you are in Sydney
August 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I don’t often read novels, having little time & a lot of poetry books to get through, but I’ve just finished reading @minon.bsky.social ‘s novel ‘First Name Second Name’—such an original, complex, & moving book! I highly recommend it. Join me for the book club at ACE next Friday if you are in Sydney
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“It’s difficult to find a job you can put everything into & still have time & energy for writing. There always comes a point in the day job where they’re saying, don’t you want to do more? & I’m like, No, not really.” Great @pipadam.bsky.social interview! thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...
Author Pip Adam on keeping faith in the project – The Creative Independent
Author Pip Adam discusses how to regain your voice when you lose it, balancing day jobs and creative output, and how place informs the work
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August 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“It’s difficult to find a job you can put everything into & still have time & energy for writing. There always comes a point in the day job where they’re saying, don’t you want to do more? & I’m like, No, not really.” Great @pipadam.bsky.social interview! thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...
Author income idea that will never take off: set up a system like library borrowing rights but for books sold in second hand bookstores where the royalty goes direct to the author, paid to the collection body by the bookstore. (Add 50c to the margin, if they have to.)
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Author income idea that will never take off: set up a system like library borrowing rights but for books sold in second hand bookstores where the royalty goes direct to the author, paid to the collection body by the bookstore. (Add 50c to the margin, if they have to.)
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Speak up and say loud and clear, “Not In My Name”
Add your name to this letter to Prime Minister Albanese and demand that Australia takes decisive action now to stop violence and breaches of international law. Because peace and justice for Palestinian people are possible.
Add your name to this letter to Prime Minister Albanese and demand that Australia takes decisive action now to stop violence and breaches of international law. Because peace and justice for Palestinian people are possible.
Not in My Name - Speak up for Gaza
Add your name to this letter to Prime Minister Albanese and demand that Australia takes decisive action now to stop violence and breaches of international law. Because peace and justice for Palestinia...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Encouraging words from Burke, look forward to seeing this translate into action. We must keep the pressure up! www.artshub.com.au/news/news/co...
Copyright & AI: Arts Minister Tony Burke pledges to protect artists’ rights
In a wide-ranging speech touching on AI and copyright, the Arts Minister Tony Burke reaffirmed his opposition to the Productivity Commission's proposals.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Encouraging words from Burke, look forward to seeing this translate into action. We must keep the pressure up! www.artshub.com.au/news/news/co...
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Race Disc Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman says he found it distressing the day Neo Nazis crashed the Anzac ceremony attacking Welcome To Country
“And all the debate after that became about Welcome To Country, rather than about ‘Why are Neo Nazis at the Anzac Day Rally?’”💯 #NPC
“And all the debate after that became about Welcome To Country, rather than about ‘Why are Neo Nazis at the Anzac Day Rally?’”💯 #NPC
August 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Race Disc Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman says he found it distressing the day Neo Nazis crashed the Anzac ceremony attacking Welcome To Country
“And all the debate after that became about Welcome To Country, rather than about ‘Why are Neo Nazis at the Anzac Day Rally?’”💯 #NPC
“And all the debate after that became about Welcome To Country, rather than about ‘Why are Neo Nazis at the Anzac Day Rally?’”💯 #NPC
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Excited to be facilitating a discussion of @minon.bsky.social ‘s book, First Name Second Name on 29 Aug for the Western Sydney Book Club—reserve your spot, it’s free to attend 
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Arts & Cultural Exchange - ACE - A Western Sydney Book Club – August Edition
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August 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Excited to be facilitating a discussion of @minon.bsky.social ‘s book, First Name Second Name on 29 Aug for the Western Sydney Book Club—reserve your spot, it’s free to attend 
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This is Australian lit and I’m here for it. The clever book that nearly won every major award in the country, until it won the biggest of them all.
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is Australian lit and I’m here for it. The clever book that nearly won every major award in the country, until it won the biggest of them all.
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I sold my very first kids' book! Delighted to announce that @minon.bsky.social's picture book "Make Them Say Poo" has been picked up by Affirm www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
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June 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I sold my very first kids' book! Delighted to announce that @minon.bsky.social's picture book "Make Them Say Poo" has been picked up by Affirm www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
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Ben Ford Smith reviews Steve MInOn's debut novel First Name, Second Name:
"Despite the complex, interwoven identities and darker themes of prejudice.. a wry, occasionally funny voice works well to brighten the darkness.."
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"Despite the complex, interwoven identities and darker themes of prejudice.. a wry, occasionally funny voice works well to brighten the darkness.."
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June 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ben Ford Smith reviews Steve MInOn's debut novel First Name, Second Name:
"Despite the complex, interwoven identities and darker themes of prejudice.. a wry, occasionally funny voice works well to brighten the darkness.."
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#BookSky 💙 📚
"Despite the complex, interwoven identities and darker themes of prejudice.. a wry, occasionally funny voice works well to brighten the darkness.."
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Hear me review Seán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh on ABC RN’s The Bookshelf. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
The Bookshelf
Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hear me review Seán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh on ABC RN’s The Bookshelf. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Look at the names on this list. A who’s who of First Nations authors and poets reminding the Queensland Government who the black&write! fellowships are for. These are the people who should be saying who to award them to, not politicians with a culture war agenda. overland.org.au/2025/05/open...
Open letter from First Nations storytellers to the Queensland State Library and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister - Overland literary journal
To the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister, We write as a community of First Nations authors, publishers, literary scholars, arts workers and Storytellers. We sp...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Look at the names on this list. A who’s who of First Nations authors and poets reminding the Queensland Government who the black&write! fellowships are for. These are the people who should be saying who to award them to, not politicians with a culture war agenda. overland.org.au/2025/05/open...
The DNA of Karen Wyld’s rescinded award is pure LNP.
May 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The DNA of Karen Wyld’s rescinded award is pure LNP.
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Trans as monster -
The queer potential of radical unacceptability
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The queer potential of radical unacceptability
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Trans as monster
If trans people continue to be demonised, argues Sam Elkin, maybe they should lean in to their characterisation as monsters...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Trans as monster -
The queer potential of radical unacceptability
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The queer potential of radical unacceptability
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Have we arrived at the point yet where AI employs humans to do the grunt work of thinking?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Have we arrived at the point yet where AI employs humans to do the grunt work of thinking?
A short story I wrote for the State Library of Queensland Finders Keepers blog. It’s about a dispute originating at the Innisfail Post Office www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/finders...
Finders keepers: Steve MinOn
State Library is filled with treasures and curios. In this series, we invite authors to find an item in our collections and let it inspire them to write a new, original creative piece of work.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A short story I wrote for the State Library of Queensland Finders Keepers blog. It’s about a dispute originating at the Innisfail Post Office www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/finders...
Think of this as the skeleton key to my novel. www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/li...
‘Identifying one’s difference should be a journey of self-discovery’
It was self-preservation to want to be more like Mum and less like Dad.
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May 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Think of this as the skeleton key to my novel. www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/li...
This is serious now, like it was serious yesterday and the day before, and before, and before.
Israeli Minister pledges the total destruction of Gaza
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
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May 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This is serious now, like it was serious yesterday and the day before, and before, and before.
“Banger” of a review of my book on the ABC.
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“Banger” of a review of my book on the ABC.
Australia’s next term of government may be the natural wonder’s last shot at survival. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australia’s next government may be Great Barrier Reef’s last chance after sixth mass bleaching, conservationist says
Consecutive and severe bleaching is ‘fundamentally changing’ nature of reef, the International Coral Reef Society says
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April 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Australia’s next term of government may be the natural wonder’s last shot at survival. www.theguardian.com/environment/...