Steve Toltz is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and novelist.

For television, Steve has written and produced on the US series No Activity and Guilty Party for CBS Television Studios. Since returning to Australia, he has written 2 episodes of Population 11 for Stan and is developing a slate of projects including an adaptation of his novel A Fraction of the Whole.

Steve’s first novel, A Fraction of the Whole was published in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, was Winner of the New South Wales Premier’s People’s Choice Award and the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists, shortlisted for the UK’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, the Ned Kelly Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards (Literary fiction Book of the Year, and Newcomer of the Year), and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award and the Miles Franklin Award. His second novel Quicksand was Winner of the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and was Shortlisted for 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His third novel, Here Goes Nothing, was published in May of 2022, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, the 2022 Nib Awards and longlisted for the 2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing.

Steve is based in Sydney, Australia.

WRITING

SERIES

POPULATION 11                            
Jungle Entertainment/Stan, 2024
Writer
Season 1 (Episodes 3 & 10)

GUILTY PARTY
CBS Television Studios/Paramount+, 2021
Writer
Season 1 (Episode 8)

NO ACTIVITY
CBS Television Studios/Paramount+, 2017-2021
Co-Executive Producer
Season 4 (Episode 1)
Writer
Season 4 (Episodes 6 & 8)
Season 3 (Episode 6)
Season 2 (Episodes 5 & 8)
Co-Producer
Season 1 (Episode 1)

BOOKS

HERE GOES NOTHING
Penguin Random House, 2022
Author

QUICKSAND
Penguin Random House, 2016
Author

A FRACTION OF THE WHOLE
Penguin Random House, 2008
Author

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

HERE GOES NOTHING
2022 Aurealis Awards: Shortlisted
2022 Nib Awards: Shortlisted
2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing: Longlisted

QUICKSAND
2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing: Winner
2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: Shortlisted

A FRACTION OF THE WHOLE
2008 Man Booker Prize: Shortlisted
2008 Guardian First Book Award: Shortlisted
2009 New South Wales Premier’s People’s Choice Award: Winner
2009The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists: Winner
2009 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (UK): Shortlisted
2008 Ned Kelly Awards: Shortlisted
2008 Australian Book Industry Awards (Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Newcomer of the Year): Shortlisted
2010 Dublin IMPAC Award: Longlisted
2009 Miles Franklin Award: Longlisted