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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Angry Anderson: shit politics, grouse tunes. Here’s something I wrote about Rose Tatts last year: ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/scarr... Seeya ‘round, nugget.

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can check out my chat with @minon.bsky.social here: youtu.be/Ds2v50F1h6Q

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The Stack - Steve MinOn

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 22/08/2026

OzAsia’s writers weekend has been such a highlight of the literary year here, I hope it continues in some other form www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

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Axe falls on festival after twenty years - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

The curtains are being drawn on another major arts festival, one event expert calling the move "disrespectful".

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

First article up in the revived Meanjin journal is this piece by me. Published from its new home at QUT campus. Subscribe to read and keep it going. meanjin.com.au/latest/my-he...

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My Head is a Camera

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"I'm always thrilled when Aussie authors just go for it with a really bonkers idea." @minon.bsky.social amid the favourites here for the Miles Franklin "for being weird and wonderful"...😂 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

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Miles Franklin shortlist defies 'shaggy' trend in Australian publishing

ABC experts unpack the shortlist of Australia's biggest book prize: who made it, who missed out and who they think will win.

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They should have written my blurb. 👏

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A dream come true. Every author wants this kind of news. Make Them Say Poo, my children’s picture book has caught the eye of a major producer.

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Readers of my literary fiction novel First Name Second Name might enjoy this handy protagonist explainer.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A happy pub day to @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social too, with her fiction debut via UQP! Getting NZ fiction up in OZ remains way too hard...so it's definitely worth celebrating these sort of wins. The collection was also recently s/listed for the Ockhams: it's that good! www.uqp.com.au/books/all-he...

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All Her Lives

An interlinked collection of fiction celebrating women’s lives and their search for love and freedom

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thank you Martin for supporting my contradictions. 😝

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I asked Carody Culver, editor of the high brow literary journal Griffith Review to talk 💩 with me at the launch of my low brow children’s picture book. Come for the puns if you’re in Brisbane in April. wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/14080-...

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Make Them Say Poo - Book Launch with Stephen (Steve MinOn) - Where The Wild Things Are

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

THE STACK is back (tm) on The @justinhamilton11.bsky.social Podcast. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... 🎞️ youtu.be/QQ9sjGJcUis?... #booksky

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Delighted to share that @minon.bsky.social has been shortlisted for this year's MUD Literary Prize! Judges: "...is the novel with the most audacious premise: Stephen Bolin, pronounced dead, escapes from the hospital morgue and sets out to walk back to his birthplace" www.uqp.com.au/blog/first-n...

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First Name Second Name Shortlisted for the 2026 MUD Literary Prize

Congratulations Steve MinOn! First Name Second Name has been shortlisted for the 2026 MUD Literary Prize.

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

From Books+Publishing: "Make Them Say Poo is a brilliantly silly, read-aloud riot that turns phonics into pure fun that dares grown-ups to read aloud without saying poo - a challenge this book gleefully ensures they fail." - via @affirmpress.bsky.social

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

“the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks – they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

And on the same day that @minon.bsky.social begins his quest for world literary domination with his @dublinlitaward.bsky.social nomination, his little *sideline* appears online, out in 2026! #MakeThemSayPoo www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Make-T...

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Make Them Say Poo

Dear trusting adult,You can safely read this very nice book aloud to your child.There are absolutely no rude words on any page. I promise.*Your Wor...

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Thanks to Australian librarians for this exciting nomination!

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

He saw AI as “particularly valuable for people like me who have something to say but lack traditional musical training”. He claimed his songs “express frustration with governmental policies, not with migrants as individuals”. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition

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Rochelle Siemienowicz @milan2pinsk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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.

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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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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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. www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...

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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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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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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Eileen Chong @eileenchongpoet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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

The cover of Steve MinOn’s book, First Name Second Name.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“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...

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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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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Eileen Chong @eileenchongpoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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 aceinc.org.au/whats-on/a-w...

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Arts & Cultural Exchange - ACE - A Western Sydney Book Club – August Edition

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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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Affirm Press acquires MinOn picture book | Books+Publishing

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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.." newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/steve-minon-... @minon.bsky.social‬ #BookSky 💙 📚

Image of cover of book First Name Second Name by Steve MinOn, reviewed by Ben Ford Smith in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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...

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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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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The DNA of Karen Wyld’s rescinded award is pure LNP.

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Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Have we arrived at the point yet where AI employs humans to do the grunt work of thinking?

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