2014 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.

Events

 * The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers.

Literary fiction

 * Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies
 * Emily Bitto – The Strays
 * Peter Carey – Amnesia
 * Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
 * Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
 * Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant
 * Wendy James – The Lost Girls
 * Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
 * Joan London – The Golden Age
 * Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child
 * Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows
 * Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs
 * Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes
 * Christine Piper – After Darkness
 * Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
 * Inga Simpson – Nest
 * Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
 * Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost

Short stories

 * Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals

Children's and Young Adult fiction

 * Trace Balla – Rivertime
 * Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
 * Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
 * Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)
 * Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
 * Darren Groth – Are You Seeing Me?
 * Rebecca James – Cooper Batholomew is Dead
 * Ambelin Kwaymullina – The Lost Girl
 * Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach
 * Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter
 * Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach
 * John Marsden – South of Darkness
 * Alice Pung – Laurinda
 * Diana Sweeney – The Minnow
 * Claire Zorn – The Protected

Crime

 * Honey Brown – Through the Cracks
 * Candice Fox – Eden
 * Katherine Howell – Deserving Death
 * Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek
 * P. M. Newton – Beams Falling
 * Malla Nunn – Present Darkness
 * Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death
 * Jock Serong – Quota

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 * Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic
 * Kate Forsyth – Wolves of the Witchwood
 * Patrick Holland – Navigatio
 * Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom
 * Garth Nix – Clariel
 * Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
 * John A. Scott – N

Drama

 * Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
 * Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home

Poetry

 * Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems
 * Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis)
 * Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
 * John Kinsella – Sack
 * Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013
 * Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
 * David Malouf – Earth Hour
 * Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry

Biographies

 * Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action
 * Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis
 * Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers
 * Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For
 * Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X
 * Julia Gillard – My Story
 * Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography
 * John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia
 * Madonna King – Hockey : Not your average Joe
 * Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age
 * Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife
 * David Walsh – A Bone of Fact

Non-fiction

 * Sophie Cunningham – Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy
 * Paul Kelly – Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation
 * Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu
 * Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts

Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Deaths

 * 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935)
 * 10 April – Doris Pilkington Garimara, novelist (born c.1937)
 * 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957)
 * 19 September – Rod Milgate, playwright and painter (born 1934)
 * 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938)
 * 3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher (born 1922)