2015 in Australian literature

This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.

Literary fiction

 * Tony Birch – Ghost River
 * Lisa Birman — How to Walk Away
 * Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
 * Robyn Cadwallader — The Anchoress
 * Stephen Daisley – Coming Rain
 * Gregory Day – Archipelago of Souls
 * Peggy Frew – Hope Farm
 * Lisa Gorton – The Life of Houses
 * Sally Hepworth — The Secrets of Midwives
 * David Ireland — The World Repair Video Game
 * Susan Johnson – The Landing
 * Gail Jones – A Guide to Berlin
 * Myfanwy Jones – Leap
 * Mireille Juchau – The World Without Us
 * Malcolm Knox – The Wonder Lover
 * Amanda Lohrey – A Short History of Richard Kline
 * Judy Nunn — Spirits of the Ghan
 * A. S. Patrić – Black Rock White City
 * Gregory David Roberts — The Mountain Shadow
 * Steve Toltz – Quicksand
 * Lucy Treloar – Salt Creek
 * Charlotte Wood – The Natural Way of Things

Children's and Young Adult fiction

 * Nick Earls – New Boy
 * John Flanagan — The Tournament at Gorlan
 * Mem Fox – This & That
 * Mem Fox – Nellie Belle
 * Andy Griffiths – The 65-Storey Treehouse
 * John Larkin — The Pause
 * Maureen McCarthy – Stay With Me
 * Sophie Masson – Hunter's Moon
 * Gillian Mears – The Cat with the Coloured Tail
 * Louis Nowra – Prince of Afghanistan
 * Emily Rodda – Two Moons
 * R. A. Spratt — Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion
 * Lili Wilkinson – Green Valentine
 * Fiona Wood – Cloudwish

Crime and mystery

 * Peter Corris – Gun Control
 * Garry Disher – The Heat
 * Mark Dapin – R&R
 * Candice Fox – Fall
 * Katherine Howell – Tell the Truth
 * Adrian McKinty – Gun Street Girl
 * Barry Maitland – Ash Island
 * Michael Robotham – Close Your Eyes
 * Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay
 * Dave Warner – Before It Breaks

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 * K. A. Bedford – Black Light
 * John Birmingham
 * Emergence
 * Resistance
 * James Bradley – Clade
 * Trudi Canavan — Angel of Storms
 * Isobelle Carmody – The Red Queen
 * Kate Forsyth — The Beast's Garden
 * Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff — Illuminae
 * Jane Rawson – Formaldehyde

Romance

 * Alison Goodman — The Dark Days Club

Poetry

 * Robert Adamson – Net Needle
 * David Brooks – Open House
 * Clive James – Sentenced to Life
 * Les Murray – Waiting for the Past

Drama

 * Matthew Whittet – Seventeen

Biographies

 * David Day – Paul Keating : The Biography
 * Peter Garrett – Big Blue Sky : A Memoir
 * Kate Grenville – One Life : My Mother's Story
 * Erik Jensen – Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
 * Gerald Murnane – Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf
 * Brenda Niall – Mannix
 * Magda Szubanski – Reckoning : A Memoir
 * Tim Winton – Island Home : A Landscape Memoir

Non-fiction

 * Joel Deane – Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power
 * Andrew Fowler – The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
 * Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions
 * Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab

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

Deaths

 * 28 January — Lionel Gilbert, historian, author, and academic, (born 1924)
 * 29 January — Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)
 * 13 February — Faith Bandler, author and civil rights activist (born 1918)
 * 23 February — James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)
 * 20 March — Malcolm Fraser, politician and author (born 1930)
 * 23 March — Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)
 * 20 May — J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)
 * 20 August — Veronica Brady, poet and critic (born 1929)
 * 4 October — Nan Hunt, children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (born 1918)