2018 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.

Literary fiction

 * Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Lebs
 * Robbie Arnott – Flames
 * Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe
 * Gregory Day – A Sand Archive
 * Ceridwen Dovey – In the Garden of the Fugitives
 * Rodney Hall – A Stolen Season
 * Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass
 * Eleanor Limprecht – The Passengers
 * Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
 * Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
 * Kristina Olsson – Shell
 * Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives
 * Kim Scott – Taboo
 * Tim Winton – The Shepherd's Hut
 * Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay

Children's and Young Adult fiction

 * Maxine Beneba Clarke – Wide Big World, illustrated by Isobel Knowles
 * Mem Fox – Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, illustrated by Judy Horacek
 * Andy Griffiths – The 104-Storey Treehouse
 * Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina – Catching Teller Crow
 * Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave
 * Shaun Tan
 * Cicada
 * Tales from the Inner City
 * Lili Wilkinson – After the Lights Go Out

Crime and Mystery

 * Garry Disher – Kill Shot
 * Candice Fox – Redemption Point
 * Kerry Greenwood – The Spotted Dog
 * Chris Hammer – Scrublands
 * Jane Harper – The Lost Man
 * Dervla McTiernan – The Rúin
 * Kate Morton – The Clockmaker's Daughter
 * Michael Robotham – The Other Wife
 * Sue Williams – Live and Let Fry

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 * Alan Baxter
 * Hidden City
 * Devouring Dark
 * Kylie Chan – Scales of Empire
 * Traci Harding – This Present Past
 * Jennifer Mills – Dyschronia
 * Kaaron Warren – Tide of Stone

Poetry

 * Jordie Albiston – Warlines
 * Judith Beveridge – Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
 * Ken Bolton – Starting at Basheer's
 * Sarah Day – Towards Light & Other Poems
 * Paul Hetherington – Moonlight on Oleander
 * Bella Li – Lost Lake
 * John Mateer – João
 * Tim Metcalf – The Underwritten Plain
 * Tracy Ryan – The Water Bearer

Drama

 * Alana Valentine – The Sugar House

Biographies and memoirs

 * Peter FitzSimons – Monash's Masterpiece
 * Jacqui Lambie – Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond
 * Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics
 * Bri Lee – Eggshell Skull
 * Anne Summers – Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir
 * Gillian Triggs – Speaking Up
 * Nadia Wheatley – Her Mother's Daughter

Non-fiction

 * Cynthia Banham – A Certain Light
 * Steve Biddulph – Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men
 * Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains
 * Stephen Gapps – The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817
 * Richard Glover – The Land Before Avocado
 * Billy Griffiths – Deep Time Dreaming
 * Anita Heiss (editor) – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
 * Chloe Hooper – The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
 * Thomas Keneally – Australians: A Short History
 * Meredith Lake – The Bible in Australia: A cultural history
 * Michael C. Madden – The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers
 * Leigh Sales – Any Ordinary Day

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

Deaths

 * 6 March – Peter Nicholls, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (born 1939)
 * 8 March – Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series (born 1946)
 * 3 April – Noela Young, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930)
 * 14 April – Frank Bren, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943)
 * 16 April – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer (born 1941)
 * 1 June – Jill Ker Conway, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain (born 1934)
 * 2 June – Tony Morphett, screenwriter and novelist (born 1938)
 * 30 August – Peter Corris, crime novelist (born 1942)
 * 31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931)
 * 12 September – Albert Ullin, German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930)
 * 16 September – John Molony, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927)
 * 6 October – James Cowan, author (born 1942)
 * 21 October – Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923)
 * 22 October
 * Anne Fairbairn, poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture (born 1928)
 * Rose Zwi, novelist (born 1928)
 * 22 November – Judith Rodriguez, poet and academic (born 1936)