List of Australian women writers

A

• Mena Abdullah, short story writer.
• Joyce Ackroyd, academic, translator, author and editor.
• Glenda Adams, novelist and short story writer.
• Nancy Adams, autobiographical writer and illustrator.
• Patsy Adam-Smith, historian.
• Jane Alison, novelist and memoir writer.
• Ethel Anderson, poet, essayist, novelist and painter.
• Jessica Anderson, novelist and short story writer.
• Millicent Armstrong, playwright and farmer.
• Keri Arthur, writer of fantasy, horror and romance novels.
• Helen Asher, novelist.
• Melissa Ashley, novelist.
• Asphyxia, puppeteer, and children's author.
• Thea Astley, novelist.
• Tilly Aston, blind poet and prose writer.
• Louisa Atkinson, novelist, botanist and illustrator.
• Karen Attard, fantasy and short fiction writer.
• Bunty Avieson, journalist and novelist.

  B

• Elizabeth Backhouse, novelist, scriptwriter and playwright.
• Van Badham, playwright and novelist.
• Elsie Marion Bailey, novelist.
• Kate Baker, critic, editor and biographer.
• Margaret Balderson, children's writer.
• Gina Ballantyne, poet.
• Faith Bandler, writer and civil rights activist.
• Sallie Bannister, novelist.
• Margaret Barbalet, novelist and historian.
• Marjorie Barnard, novelist and historian, who collaborated with Flora Eldershaw to write as M. Barnard Eldershaw
• Charlotte Barton, children's writer and educationalist.
• Emily Mary Barton, poet.
• Marnie Bassett, historian and biographer.
• Daisy Bates, journalist and anthropologist.
• Catherine Bateson, novelist and poet.
• Annie Maria Baxter, diarist.
• Barbara Baynton
• Jean Bedford, novelist and short story writer.
• Ruth Bedford, poet, playwright and children's writer.
• Larissa Behrendt, legal academic and novelist.
• Diane Bell, anthropologist.
• Hilary Bell, playwright.
• Stefanie Bennet, poet.
• Mary Montgomerie Bennett, biographer and civil rights advocate.
• Patricia Bernard, writer of speculative fiction.
• Beatrice Bevan, poet and missionary.
• Barbara Biggs, journalist, writer and campaigner.
• Carmel Bird, novelist and short story writer.
• Winifred Birkett, novelist and poet.
• Dora Birtles, novelist, short story writer, poet and travel writer.
• Marie Bjelke-Petersen, novelist.
• Georgia Blain, novelist, journalist and biographer.
• Dorothy Blewett, playwright and novelist who also wrote as 'Ann Praize'.
• Norma Bloom, poet.
• 'Capel Boake', pseudonym of Doris Boake Kerr, novelist.
• Jenny Boult, poet.
• Mona Brand, poet, playwright and non-fiction writer.
• Doris Brett, poet.
• Hilda Bridges, novelist and short story writer.
• Hesba Brinsmead, novelist.
• Barbara Brooks, prose and short story writer.
• Anne Brooksbank, scriptwriter and playwright.
• Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, novelist, travel writer and children's writer.
• Lyn Ingoldsby Brown, poet.
• Pam Brown, poet and prose writer.
• Mary Grant Bruce, children's author and journalist.
• Alyssa Brugman, author of fiction for young adults.
• Emily Hemans Bulcock, poet.
• Anna Maria Bunn, novelist.
• Dora Burchill, non-fiction writer.
• Colleen Burke, poet and biographer.
• J. C. Burke, novelist.
• Janine Burke, art critic, historian and novelist.
• Joanne Burns, poet and prose writer.
• Marie Beuzeville Byles, travel and non-fiction writer.

  C

• Caroline Caddy, poet.
• Kathleen Caffyn, novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Iota'.
• Mena Calthorpe, novelist.
• Ada Cambridge, novelist, poet, children's writer and autobiographer.
• Marion May Campbell, novelist, performance writer and memoirist.
• Patricia Carlon, crime novelist.
• Jennings Carmichael pseudonym for Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael, poet.
• Maie Casey, Baroness Casey, poet, librettist, biographer and memoirist.
• Deirdre Cash, novelist who used the pseudonym 'Criena Rohan'.
• Lee Cataldi, poet.
• Nancy Cato, historical novelist, poet and biographer.
• Nan Chauncy, children's writer.
• Ellen Clacy, novelist and nonfiction writer who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Cycla'.
• Mona Matilda Clare, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym 'Monica Clare'.
• Mavis Thorpe Clark, nonfiction and children's writer.
• Coralie Clarke, later Coralie Clarke Rees, travel writer.
• Maxine Beneba Clarke, poet and short story writer.
• Inga Clendinnen, author and historian.
• Charmian Clift, novelist, nonfiction and autobiography writer.
• Jennifer Compton, poet.
• Dorothy Cottrell, novelist.
• Anna Couani, novelist, poet and visual artist.
• Emily Coungeau, poet.
• Jessie Couvreur, novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Tasma'.
• Alice Guerin Crist, poet, novelist, short story writer and journalist.
• Alison Croggon, poet, playwright, fantasy novelist and librettist.
• M. T. C. Cronin, poet.
• Zora Cross, poet, novelist and journalist.
• Jean Curlewis, children's writer.
• Dymphna Cusack, novelist and playwright.

  D

• Marguerite Dale, playwright and feminist.
• Blanche d'Alpuget, biographer, novelist and activist.
• Kathleen Dalziel, poet.
• Eleanor Dark / Patricia O'Rane, novelist.
• Norma Davis, poet.
• Sarah Day, English-born Australian poet.
• Alma De Groen, New Zealand-born playwright.
• Michelle de Kretser, novelist.
• Dulcie Deamer, novelist, poet, journalist and actor.
• Enid Derham, poet and academic.
• Jessica Dettmann, novelist
• Jean Devanny, novelist and nonfiction writer.
• Rosemary Dobson, poet.
• Sara Douglass, fantasy writer.
• Ceridwen Dovey, novelist.
• Henrietta Drake-Brockman, journalist and novelist.
• Ursula Dubosarsky, writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults.
• Susan Duncan, memoirist and novelist.
• Alice Monkton Duncan-Kemp, novelist.
• Mary Durack novelist and historian.

  E

• Alice Eather, slam poet, environmental campaigner and teacher.
• Robyn Eckersley, political theorist.
• Suzanne Edgar, writer of fiction, feature articles, poetry and reviews.
• Arabella Edge, English-born short story writer and novelist.
• Harriet Edquist, architectural historian and curator.
• Elizabeth Eggleston, activist, author and lawyer.
• Anne Elder, poet and ballet dancer.
• Flora Eldershaw, novelist, critic and historian.
• 'M. Barnard Eldershaw', pseudonym for collaboration of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw
• Marian Eldridge, short story writer.
• Edith Mary England, novelist and poet.
• Fotini Epanomitis, novelist.
• Velia Ercole, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym 'Margaret Gregory'.
• Rica Erickson, botanical and historical writer.
• Matilda Jane Evans, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym 'Maud Jeanne Franc'.

  F

• Diane Fahey, poet and short story writer.
• Suzanne Falkiner, novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer.
• Beatrice Faust, women's activist and non-fiction writer.
• Minnie Agnes Filson, poet who wrote under the pseudonym 'Ricketty Kate'.
• Mary Finnin, poet.
• Lala Fisher, poet and editor.
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, historian, biographer and critic.
• Jane Ada Fletcher, nature writer and children's writer.
• Pat Flower, writer of plays, TV plays and novels.
• Bethia Foott, novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Mrs James Foott, non-fiction writer.
• Mary Hannay Foott, poet and editor.
• Mabel Forrest, novelist and poet.
• Thelma Forshaw, short story writer and reviewer.
• Mary Fortune, detective story writer, under the pseudonym 'Waif Wander'.
• Lynn Foster, playwright and novelist.
• Miles Franklin, novelist and journalist, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym 'Brent of Bin Bin'.
• Robyn Friend, fiction writer and biographer.
• Mary Fullerton, poet and novelist who published under several pseudonyms.

  G

• Katherine Gallagher, poet.
• Helen Garner, novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
• Catherine Gaskin, romance novelist.
• Sulari Gentill, writer of historical crime and other fiction, who also uses the pseudonym 'S.D. Gentill'.
• Doris Gentile, novelist and short story writer.
• May Gibbs, children's author, illustrator and cartoonist.
• Anna Goldsworthy, writer, teacher and classical pianist.
• Sophie Gonzales, writer of young adult queer romantic comedies.
• Charmaine Papertalk Green, poet and artist.
• Kate Grenville, writer of fiction, non-fiction, biography and about the writing process.
• Margot Goyder, novelist who, with Neville Joske, published under the pseudonym Margot Neville

  H

• Rosalie Ham, author of The Dressmaker.
• Susan Hampton, poet.
• Barbara Hanrahan, novelist and artist.
• Lesbia Harford, poet, novelist and political activist.
• Beverley Harper, author of novels set in Africa.
• Jennifer Harrison, poet.
• Elizabeth Harrower, novelist and short story writer.
• Gwen Harwood, poet and librettist.
• Libby Hathorn, poet, librettist, children's author.
• Susan Hawthorne, writer of fiction and nonfiction, poet, and publisher.
• Anita Heiss, writer of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary, travel and on contemporary Aboriginal life.
• Dorothy Hewett, playwright and poet.
• Ernestine Hill, journalist, travel writer and novelist.
• Helen Hodgman, novelist and screenwriter.
• Ada Augusta Holman, journalist, novelist and nonfiction writer.
• Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, scholar, writer of fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry.
• Janette Turner Hospital, novelist and short story writer.

  I

• Anne Bower Ingram, children's author and publisher

  J

• Linda Jaivin, novelist and nonfiction writer.
• Barbara James, historian.
• Florence James, author and literary agent.
• Rebecca James, writer of young adult fiction.
• Wendy James, crime novelist.
• Winifred Lewellin James, novelist and travel writer.
• Emma Jane, novelist and media commentator.
• Charlotte Jay, pseudonym of Geraldine Halls, mystery writer.
• Barbara Jefferis, radio dramatist and novelist.
• Sheila Jeffreys, feminist scholar and writer.
• Grace Jennings-Edquist, feminist writer and journalist.
• Kate Jennings, poet, essayist, memoirist and novelist.
• Helen Jerome, poet, playwright and nonfiction writer.
• Alexandra Joel, fiction and nonfiction writer.
• Rebecca Johnson, children's writer, including nonfiction.
• Susan Johnson, novelist and short story writer.
• Dorothy Johnston, writer of literary fiction and crime novelist.
• Elizabeth Jolley, novelist.
• Gail Jones, novelist and academic.
• Jill Jones, poet.
• Laura Jones, screenwriter.
• Margaret Jones, journalist, writer of political thrillers and nonfiction.
• Toni Jordan, novelist.
• Neville Joske, novelist who, with Margot Goyder, published under the pseudonym Margot Neville.
• Mireille Juchau, novelist.

  K

• Elizabeth Kata, novelist.
• Nancy Keesing, poet, novelist and nonfiction writer.
• Antigone Kefala, poet and fiction writer.
• Gwen Kelly, novelist, short story writer and poet.
• Hannah Kent, historical novelist.
• Jacqueline Kent, journalist, biographer and non-fiction writer.
• Doris Boake Kerr, wrote under pseudonym Capel Boake, novelist.
• Robin Klein, children's writer.
• Marion Miller Knowles, poet, novelist, journalist.

  L

• Isabel Ladds, short story writer and playwright.
• Elizabeth Lambert, poet.
• Mary Lang, poet.
• Gertrude Langer, art critic.
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, historian and non-fiction writer.
• Eve Langley, novelist and poet.
• Dorothy Langsford, novelist.
• Coral Lansbury, novelist and academic.
• Justine Larbalestier, writer of young adult fiction.
• Glenda Larke, fantasy novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Nel Law, artist, poet and diarist.
• Bertha Lawson, memoirist.
• Louisa Lawson, poet, writer, publisher, suffragist and feminist.
• Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic.
• Simone Lazaroo, novelist.
• Caroline Woolmer Leakey, poet and novelist.
• Ida Lee, historian and poet.
• Joyce Lee, poet.
• Valentine Leeper, classicist, polemicist and letter-writer.
• Julia Leigh, novelist, film director and screenwriter.
• Constance Le Plastrier, novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Robin Levett, travel writer, novelist, philanthropist, pilot and racehorse breeder.
• Tanya Levin, social worker and non-fiction writer.
• Julia Ethel Levy, playwright, novelist and poet who sometimes published under the pseudonym 'Juliet'.
• Wendy Lewis, non-fiction writer and playwright.
• Kate Lilley, poet and academic.
• Hilarie Lindsay, children's writer, non-fiction writer and poet.
• Jane Lindsay, novelist and biographer.
• Lady Joan A'Beckett Lindsay, novelist.
• Rose Lindsay, artist's model, biographer and printmaker.
• Mary Lisle, poet.
• Carol Liston, historian.
• Ellen Liston, novelist, poet and short story writer.
• Jessie Sinclair Litchfield, poet, non-fiction writer and editor.
• Agnes Littlejohn, poet, short story writer, novelist and children's writer.
• Mary Rose Liverani, biographer and journalist.
• Kate Llewellyn, poet, diarist and travel writer.
• Anne Lloyd, poet.
• Jessie Georgiana Lloyd, novelist, essayist and short story writer who published under the pseudonym 'Silverleaf'.
• Lilian Locke, short story writer.
• Sumner Locke, novelist, dramatist, poet and short story writer.
• Amanda Lohrey, novelist and essayist.
• Joan London, short story writer, screenwriter and novelist.
• Abie Longstaff, children's writer.
• Gabrielle Lord, crime novelist and short story writer.
• Melissa Lucashenko, writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, and novels for teenagers.
• Laura Bogue Luffman, novelist and journalist.
• Catharine Lumby, journalist and academic.
• Dame Enid Lyons, biographer and politician.
• Edith Joan Lyttleton, novelist who mostly published under the pseudonym 'G. B. Lancaster'.

  M

• Constance Jane McAdam, writer and suffragette who wrote under the name 'Constance Clyde'.
• Maxine McArthur, science fiction writer.
• Nora McAuliffe, New Zealand-born poet and journalist.
• Dorothy Frances McCrae, poet. Also known as 'Mrs C. E. Perry'.
• Georgiana Huntly McCrae, painter and diarist.
• Colleen McCullough, novelist.
• Nan McDonald, poet and editor.
• Ella May McFadyen, poet, journalist and children's writer.
• Fiona McFarlane, novelist
• Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist.
• Frances Margaret McGuire, journalist and novelist.
• Siobhán McHugh, Irish-Australian author, podcaster and documentary-maker.
• Elisabeth MacIntyre, children's writer.
• Amy Mack, children's writer.
• Louise Mack, poet, journalist and novelist.
• Edith McKay, novelist and short story writer.
• Dorothea Mackellar, poet and fiction writer.
• Jan McKemmish, novelist and short story writer.
• Tamara McKinley, novelist.
• Linda Macken, novelist.
• Marjorie McLeod, playwright and poet.
• Rhyll McMaster, poet and novelist.
• Barbara McNamara, best known as 'Elizabeth O'Conner', novelist who also wrote as 'Anne Willard'.
• Bertha McNamara, socialist and feminist pamphleteer and bookseller.
• Kit McNaughton, nurse and diarist.
• Jennifer Maiden, poet.
• Barbara York Main, arachnologist.
• Agnes Newberry Maltby, best known as Peg Maltby, children's author and illustrator.
• Alana Mann, non-fiction writer on food politics
• Doris Manners-Sutton, novelist and journalist.
• Emily Manning, poet and journalist, wrote under pseudonym 'Australie'.
• Chris Mansell, poet and publisher.
• Melina Marchetta, novelist.
• Mary Marlowe, novelist and journalist who also wrote under the name 'Puck'.
• Pauline Marrington, historical novelist.
• Catherine Edith Macauley Martin, novelist and journalist.
• Harriet Patchett Martin, editor and short story writer.
• Joan Mas, poet.
• Nuri Mass, children's writer and novelist.
• Olga Masters, journalist, novelist and short story writer.
• Christobel Mattingley, children's writer.
• Jan Mayman, journalist.
• Gillian Mears, short story writer and novelist.
• Wolla Meranda,, novelist.
• Gwen Meredith, playwright, scriptwriter and novelist.
• Louisa Meredith, non-fiction writer, poet, novelist and artist.
• Elyne Mitchell, children's writer.
• Mary Mitchell, novelist.
• Drusilla Modjeska, writer and editor.
• Dora Montefiore, poet, autobiographer, suffragist and socialist.
• Finola Moorhead, novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and reviewer.
• Elinor Mordaunt, writer and traveller.
• Musette Morell, playwright and children's writer.
• Sally Morgan, Aboriginal writer and artist.
• Liane Moriarty, novelist.
• Meaghan Morris, cultural studies scholar.
• Myra Morris, poet, novelist and children's writer.
• Di Morrissey, novelist.
• Sally Morrison, biographer and fiction writer.
• Mary Braidwood Mowle, diarist.
• Nina Murdoch, biographer, travel writer, journalist and poet.
• Elizabeth Alicia Murray, novelist.
• Joanna Murray-Smith, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.

  N

• Joice NanKivell Loch, ), prose writer.
• Michele Nayman, poet and fiction writer.
• Jill Neville, novelist, playwright and poet.
• 'Margot Neville', the collaborative pseudonym for novelist sisters Margot Goyder and Anne Neville.
• Ellen Newton, journalist, critic and short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym 'Esther Levy'.
• Brenda Niall, biographer, literary critic and journalist.
• Joyce Nicholson, author and businesswoman.
• Deborah Niland, writer and illustrator of children's books.
• Cynthia Reed Nolan, novelist and travel writer.
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Aboriginal political activist, artist and educator.
• Lilith Norman, children's writer.
• Marlene Norst, Austrian-born linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist.
• Joanne Nova, science writer, blogger, and speaker.

  O

• Kathleen O'Brien, comic book artist, book illustrator and fashion artist.
• Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, journalist and non-fiction author.
• Mary-Anne O'Connor, novelist.
• Eva O'Doherty, poet.
• Mietta O'Donnell, restaurateur, chef and food writer.
• Pixie O'Harris, children's author and illustrator.
• Narelle Oliver, artist, printmaker and children's author-illustrator.
• Kate Orman, science fiction writer.
• Beatrice Osborn, novelist and poet better known by her pseudonym 'Margaret Fane'.
• Sophie Osmond, novelist.
• Caroline Overington, journalist and author.
• Jan Owen, poet.

  P

• Margaret Paice, children's writer.
• Helen Palmer, publisher, educationalist, author, historian and communist.
• Nettie Palmer, poet, essayist and literary critic.
• Laura Palmer-Archer, short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym 'Bushwoman'.
• Susan Parisi, Canadian-born writer of horror fiction.
• Ruth Park, novelist and children's writer.
• Catherine Langloh Parker, fiction writer and Aboriginal folklorist.
• Anne Chapman Parratt, poet.
• Anne Spencer Parry, fantasy writer.
• Kate Partridge, novelist and poet who also used the pseudonym 'Sydney Partridge'.
• Jacqueline Pascarl, memoirist and parents' rights advocate.
• Mary Elwyn Patchett, children's writer.
• Marie Winifred Peacock, novelist.
• Ethel Pedley, author and musician.
• Lydia Pender, children's writer.
• Barbara Pepworth, writer.
• Grace Perry, poet, publisher and editor.
• Barbara Petrie, poet and children's writer.
• Hoa Pham, novelist, children's writer and short story writer.
• Nancy Phelan, novelist and travel writer.
• Joan Phipson, children's writer.
• Phyllis Piddington, novelist, poet and short story writer.
• Doris Pilkington Garimara, autobiographical novelist.
• Marie E. J. Pitt, poet.
• Marjorie Pizer, poet.
• Gillian Polack, writer and editor of speculative fiction.
• Leonora Polkinghorne, women's activist and writer.
• Dorothy Featherstone Porter, poet.
• Marie Porter, researcher, writer and advocate for women's and children's welfare.
• Sue-Ann Post, comedian and writer
• Marguerite Helen Power, poet.
• Muriel Faucett Power, poet and children's writer.
• Eve Pownall, children's writer and historian.
• Rosa Praed, novelist who also wrote as 'Mrs Campbell Praed'.
• Evadne Price writer and media personality.
• Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist and playwright.
• Alice Pung, novelist and memoir writer, editor and lawyer.
• Kathryn Purnell, poet and editor.
• Lilian Maxwell Pyke, children's writer and novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Erica Maxwell'.

  Q

• Betty Quin, script writer.
• Tarella Quinn, children's writer and novelist.

  R

• Therese Radic, playwright and musician.
• Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye, novelist and non-fiction writer who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Isabel Massary'.
• Jennifer Rankin, poet and playwright.
• Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author.
• Rosemary Rees, novelist.
• Annie Rattray Rentoul,, children's novelist and poet.
• Ethel Richardson, known by her pseudonym Henry Handel Richardson, novelist.
• Elizabeth Riddell / Betty Riddell, poet and journalist.
• Elizabeth Riley, novelist.
• Georgia Rivers / Georgia Rivers/Marjorie Clark novelist and short story writer.
• Annie Louisa Rixon / Annie Rixon-Suddert / Mrs Richard de Clare, novelist.
• Marjorie Robertson, short story writer.
• Mary Ann Robertson, poet.
• Judith Rodriguez, poet.
• Jill Roe, historian, academic and author.
• Betty Roland, writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics.
• Heather Rose, novelist.
• Agnes Rose-Soley / Rose De Boheme, journalist and poet.
• Alice Grant Rosman, novelist.
• Jennifer Rowe, novelist, who also writes under the pseudonym 'Emily Rodda'.
• Frances Emily Russell, novelist.
• Gig Ryan, poet.
• Liliana Rydzynski, poet, short story writer and essayist.

  S

• Eva Sallis, novelist, who also writes as Eva Hornung.
• Elizabeth Salter, novelist, biographer and academic.
• Dorothy Lucy Sanders / Lucy Walker
• Effie Sandery / Elizabeth Powell, children's writer and journalist.
• Dipti Saravanamuttu, Sri Lankan-Australian poet and academic.
• Georgia Savage, novelist.
• Julianne Schultz, non-fiction writer.
• Margaret Scott, poet, critic and academic.
• Maria J. Scott, novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Mist'.
• Natalie Scott, novelist, journalist and children's writer.
• Rosie Scott, novelist.
• Jocelynne Scutt, non-fiction writer and lawyer.
• Alexandra Seddon, poet.
• Winifred Maitland Shaw, poet.
• Jill Shearer, playwright.
• Robin Sheiner, novelist and short story writer.
• Catherine Shepherd, playwright.
• Helen Simpson, novelist, playwright and historian.
• Mary Simpson, short story writer and playwright who published under the pseudonym 'Weeroona'.
• Millie Skinner, novelist.
• Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic.
• Catherine Helen Spence, novelist, journalist and social reformer.
• Eleanor Spence, children's author.
• Dale Spender, feminist scholar, writer and consultant.
• Lady Jean Maud Spender, crime novelist under the name J. M. Spender.
• Leonie Sperling, novelist.
• Mary Brodie Sproule, essayist.
• Nicolette Stasko, poet, novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Christina Stead, novelist.
• Barbara Stellmach, playwright.
• Amanda Stewart, poet and sound/performance artist.
• Patricia Stonehouse / Harlingham Quinn / Lindsay Russell, poet and writer.
• Jennifer Strauss, poet and academic.
• Anne Summers, writer and columnist.
• Bobbi Sykes, poet and author.

  T

• Lian Tanner, children's author.
• Cory Taylor, children's author and memoirist.
• Kay Glasson Taylor, also wrote as Daniel Hamline, children's author.
• Kylie Tennant, novelist, playwright, historian, critic and children's author.
• Angela Thirkell / Leslie Parker, novelist.
• Margaret Thomas, travel writer, poet and artist.
• Holly Throsby, novelist.
• Glen Tomasetti, singer-songwriter, novelist and poet.
• Christine Townsend, novelist and animal welfare activist.
• Jessica Townsend, children's fantasy author.
• Pamela Lyndon Travers, children's author.
• Margaret Trist, novelist and short story writer.
• Ethel Turner, children's author and novelist.
• Lilian Turner, children's novelist.

  U

• Terry Underwood, author.
• Jessie Urquhart, novelist and journalist.

  V

• Elise Valmorbida, writer of fiction and non-fiction.
• Lin Van Hek, novelist and short story writer.
• Joanne van Os, writer of memoir, children's and adult fiction.
• Elizabeth Vassilieff, non-fiction writer and critic.
• Barbara Vernon, playwright, scriptwriter and radio announcer.
• Julienne van Loon, novelist and non-fiction writer.
• Mary Therese Vidal, novelist.
• Vicki Viidikas, poet and prose writer.
• Edith Vivian, poet.
• Michelle Vogel, Australian-born film historian, author and free-lance editor.

  W

• Vikki Wakefield, young adult fiction writer.
• Kath Walker, Aboriginal poet, short story writer and artist.
• 'Lucy Walker', pseudonym of Dorothy Lucie Sanders, romance novelist.
• Dorothy Wall, children's author and illustrator.
• Ania Walwicz, poet, prose writer and visual artist.
• Elizabeth Russel Ward / Biff Ward, non-fiction writer.
• Kathleen Watson, novelist.
• Marjorie Weatherly, novelist and poet.
• Elizabeth Catherine Webb, journalist and novelist.
• Sarah Welch / 'Europa', novelist and poet.
• Kate Weston, novelist.
• Nadia Wheatley, children's novelist and freelance writer.
• Ellen Whinnett, journalist.
• Myrtle Rose White, prose writer.
• Susan Whiting, poet.
• Margaret Whitlam, social campaigner and autobiographical writer.
• Anna Wickham, pseudonym of Edith Hepburn,, poet and playwright.
• Rosemary Wighton, literary editor, author and adviser on women's affairs.
• Dora Wilcox, poet and playwright.
• Kim Wilkins, popular fiction writer.
• Marian Wilkinson, journalist and author.
• Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor.
• Justina Williams, also known as Joan Williams, journalist, poet and historian.
• Ruth Williams , children's writer.
• Helen Helga Wilson, novelist, short story writer, poet and historian.
• Margaret Wilson, television writer.
• Tara June Winch, novelist and short story writer
• Dallas Winmar, playwright
• Eliza Winstanley / Elizabeth Winstanley / Ariele, writer and stage actress.
• Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter.
• Amy Witting, pseudonym of Joan Austral Fraser, novelist and poet.
• Sabina Wolanski, Holocaust survivor and autobiographical writer.
• Susan Nugent Wood,, Australian-born New Zealand poet and essayist.
• Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, Tongan-born historian.
• Angela Woollacott, historian.
• Alexis Wright, novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer.
• Judith Wright, poet and environmental activist.
• June Wright, crime novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer.
• Patricia Wrightson, children's writer.
• Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, novelist.

  Z

• Jane Zageris, poet and artist.
• Rose Zwi, Mexican-born South African-Australian novelist and short story writer.
• Fay Zwicky, poet, short story writer, critic and academic.