Our first guest tonight is the fascinating Steve MinOn.

Steve’s debut novel is First Name Second Name, which won the Glendower Award for an emerging Queensland writer at the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards. He has also been a recipient of the 2021 Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishible program for emerging writers and his articles and short stories have appeared SBS Voices, Mamamia, Nightmare Fuel, WQ Magazine and the 2022 Right Left Write Anthology.

Self-described as ‘a child of mixed-race Australia,’ he has at different times been a creative director, an advertising copywriter and a restaurateur. He lives in Brisbane and is currently working on a follow-up novel.