Steve MinOn

Steve MinOn was an internationally awarded advertising copywriter and a restaurateur before becoming a writer of fiction and children’s picture books. He grew up in North Queensland, and he now lives on Turrbal land in Magandjin/Brisbane. Steve’s debut novel First Name Second Name (UQP 2025) won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer and was shortlisted for People’s Choice at the Queensland Literary Awards. It was shortlisted for the MUD Literary Award and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2026.

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He has written often about outsiders and his family’s mixed-race ancestral history, and his articles and short stories have been published in SBS Voices and various newspapers and anthologies. His children’s picture book Make Them Say Poo (Affirm Press 2026) illustrated by Rudi de Wet won’t win any highbrow literary awards.