2022 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.

Literary fiction

 * Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
 * Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
 * Jane Caro – The Mother
 * Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
 * Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
 * Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot
 * Katerina Gibson – Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)
 * Yumna Kassab – The Lovers
 * Robert Lukins – Loveland
 * Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down
 * Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris
 * Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses
 * Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother
 * Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel
 * Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing

Short story collections

 * Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun

Crime and mystery

 * Shelley Burr – Wake
 * Aoife Clifford – When We Fall
 * Chris Hammer – The Tilt
 * Jane Harper – Exiles
 * Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate
 * Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters
 * Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid
 * Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule
 * Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You
 * Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish
 * Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over

Science fiction and fantasy

 * Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools
 * Grace Chan – Every Version of You
 * Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis
 * Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams
 * Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns

Children's and young adult fiction

 * Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love
 * Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge
 * Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon

Poetry

 * Adam Aitken – Revenants
 * Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems
 * Marion May Campbell – Languish
 * Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo
 * Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia
 * Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar
 * John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)
 * Les Murray – Continuous Creation
 * Rae White – Exactly As I Am

Non-Fiction

 * Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
 * Debra Dank – We Come With This Place
 * Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics
 * Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood
 * Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
 * Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation

Memoir

 * Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
 * Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On
 * Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story
 * Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen
 * Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
 * Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career
 * Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

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

Deaths

 * 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)
 * 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)
 * 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)
 * 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)
 * 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)
 * 29 April – Craig Powell, poet (born 1940)
 * 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936)
 * 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)
 * 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)
 * 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)
 * 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)
 * 3 August
 * Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)
 * Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)
 * 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)
 * 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)
 * 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)
 * 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)
 * 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)
 * 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)
 * 2 December
 * Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)
 * Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)
 * 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)
 * December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952)