I made them say POO www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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...

“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.

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

“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.)

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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 💙 📚

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...

The DNA of Karen Wyld’s rescinded award is pure LNP.

Trans as monster - The queer potential of radical unacceptability www.griffithreview.com/articles/tra...

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...

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.

“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/...

Love to see it: @minon.bsky.social's First Name Second Name fiction book of the week in the paper this coming weekend www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

OUT NOW 💊 linktr.ee/passtheamyl #booksky

Artshub review: “this novel…is beautifully, quietly haunting.” www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews...

If you find your work has been included in this dataset please complete our form below! We need this information to demonstrate the scale of the impact upon creators and to advocate to Government on creators' behalves. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My favourite line in this review is “suck the life out of an innocent rando”. Linda Jaivin really gets me.

“best”, “bonkers” and “original” are all good words to find in your first Guardian review. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Happy publication day to Yumna Kassab for her fourth novel, The Theory of Everything, via Ultimo Press ultimopress.com.au/collections/...

Polish your submissions, they say. You’ll make a good impression, they say. 😝 Oh well, at least we got there, Martin. ❤️

You know your book is in good hands when the book seller likes it. www.readings.com.au/reviews/firs...

. @horrornonna.com has spoken. Out April Fool’s. linktr.ee/passtheamyl ⚡️

Join me on the blog where I'm In Conversation with Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming novel, First Name Second Name, winner of the Glendower Award for an emerging Queensland writer at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards. Here's the link: paulineyates.com/2025/02/20/i...

At the AACTA Festival yesterday, in front of a large crowd, a panel of authors discussed the books they’d written. Now imagine that same crowd watching a panel of hard drives discuss the books they’d written.

Red hot BLACK PILLS takes on Good Reads from esteemed NZ horror-scribing madman Denver Grenell! 💊 Preorders! linktr.ee/passtheamyl ⚡️

Bonza first review for @minon.bsky.social’s debut novel, First Name, Second Name ($) - “a fresh take on the classic immigrant’s tale…offering dark humour & a richly woven plot” www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

I said it and I meant it.

Come see little me on a panel with brilliant authors John Birmingham (@birmo.bsky.social) and Helen Marshall (@manuscriptgal.bsky.social) at the AACTA Festival at HOTA on the Gold Coast. It’s on Sun 9 Feb at 2pm, though the festival runs from Feb 5 - 9. Our panel is free. Book!

I've updated the #Booktok page in my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky with a link to Bluesky's most recent VIDEO functionality announcement. On the road right now, but will check out functionality & will also post links to other people's resources when I have a chance. publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bo...

Edmund White trying but failing to win the Bad Sex in Writing Award. He’s just too witty. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Reminds me of the time I was told, “I’m not racist but you are for accusing me.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Thanks for the mention @australia.theguardian.com in Beejay Silcox’s list of 2025 books. Especially under “playful premises”. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

And so David Lynch departed the Hollywood dimension. RIP.

Get writing for this fantastic competition! I want to read your stories!!!

So excited to see Audition by Pip Adam on the longlist for the Dublin Literary Award! ✨️🥳 Yay, @pipadam.bsky.social ! dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...

Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne launches of First Name Second Name, my debut novel, are now taking bookings at Avid Reader, Better Read Than Dead and Readings websites.

💊 DIGITAL PREORDERS OPEN! 💊 BLACK PILLS is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the unmitigated shit show that is our present reality. 

It features 7 heroic doses of uncut gonzo fiction, 110% guaranteed to astonish & confound. Out April Fool’s Day. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSRSVDSR