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Literary awards

 * List of Australian literary awards – each award needs to be checked and updated, as necessary, with recent winners and shortlists and references

Former novelists

 * Gavin Casey (1907–1964) - ADB
 * Dorothy M. Catts (1896–1961) - ADB
 * Peter Corris (1942–2018) - improve
 * Alice Nannup (1911-1995) - author of When the Pelican Laughed
 * Rebecca Phillips (1872–1942) - ADB

Contemporary novelists

 * Wayne Ashton (born 1959)
 * Inez Baranay (born 1950)
 * Mark Henshaw (born 1951)
 * Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) - improve
 * Leonie Norrington
 * Boori Monty Pryor - improve
 * Georgia Savage
 * Jennifer Scoullar
 * Tracy Sorensen - stub
 * Renate Yates (Renate Raubitschek)

Former poets

 * Niall Brennan (1918-2005)
 * Charles Buckmaster (1950-1972) (stub only)
 * Robert Clark (poet) (1911-2004)
 * Laurence Collinson (1925-1986) (stub only)
 * Alexander Craig (poet) (1923-1996)
 * Max Dunn (1895-1963) (stub only)
 * Anne Elder (1918-1976) - improve references
 * W. S. Fairbridge (1918-1950)
 * Edwin Gerard (1891-1965)
 * J. W. Gordon (Jim Grahame) (1874-1949)
 * Paul Grano (1894-1975) (stub only)
 * H. M. Green (1881-1962) (stub only)
 * Edward Harrington (1895-1966) (stub only)
 * Martin Harrison (poet) (1949-2014) - needs refs
 * William Hart-Smith (1911-1990) (stub only) - unreferenced
 * Peter Hopegood (1891-1967)
 * Flexmore Hudson (1913-1988)
 * J. A. R. McKellar (1904-1932)
 * Harley Matthews (1889-1968)
 * Ernest G. Moll (1900-1997)
 * R. D. Murphy (born 1910)
 * James Picot (1906-1944)
 * J. R. Rowland (1925-1996)
 * Winifred Maitland Shaw (1906-1977)
 * Ken Taylor (poet) (1930-2014)
 * Charles R. Thatcher (1831-1878) (stub only)
 * Brian Vrepont (1882-1955) (stub only)

Contemporary poets

 * Timoshenko Aslanides (born 1943) - improve references
 * Eric Beach (born 1947) (stub only)
 * Anthony J. Bennett (born 1950)
 * Peter Boyle (poet) (born 1951) (stub only)
 * Adrian Caesar (born 1955)
 * Kieran Carroll (born 1968)
 * Lucy Dougan (born 1966) (stub only)
 * Chris Edwards (poet) (born 1955)
 * Diane Fahey (born 1945) - imp refs
 * Michael Farrell (poet) (born 1965) (stub only)
 * Jamie Grant (born 1949)
 * Philip Hammial (born 1937) - improve refs and format
 * Margaret Irvin (born 1916)
 * Evan Jones (Australian poet) (born 1931) (stub only)
 * S. K. Kelen (born 1956) - improve refs
 * Frederick Kesner (poet) (born 1967)
 * Lee Knowles (born 1941)
 * Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) - improve refs
 * Cassie Lewis (poet) (born 1974)
 * Ruark Lewis (born 1960)
 * Myron Lysenko (born 1952)
 * Rhyll McMaster (born 1947) - improve refs
 * Philip Mead (poet) (born 1953)
 * Peter Minter (born 1967)
 * Mark O'Connor (poet) (born 1945) - improve refs
 * Marcella Polain (born 1958) - improve refs
 * Nigel Roberts (poet) (born 1941)
 * Michael Sharkey (born 1946) - improve refs and format
 * Alex Skovron (born 1948)

Other writers, critics, editors etc.
To create
 * Jack Beasley (critic) (born 1921), Red Letter Days
 * Mark O'Flynn, playwright
 * Bill Wannan (1915-2003)

Stubs
 * Richard Beynon (1927-1999)
 * Peter Craven (literary critic)
 * Louis Esson (1879-1943), playwright

Books

 * A House is Built - stub
 * A Secret Country (John Pilger)
 * Extinctions (novel) - redirected to Josephine Wilson
 * I am what I am (book) (John Marsden)
 * How to Build a Time Machine - stub, improve
 * On Dearborn Street (Miles Franklin)
 * The Accidental Universe (Paul Davies)
 * The Australian Legend - redirected to Russel Ward
 * The Australian Ugliness - needs references
 * The Last Three Minutes (Paul Davies)
 * The Misery of Beauty (Louis Nowra)
 * The Night Country (Bryce Courtney)
 * The Roaring Nineties (Katharine Susannah Prichard)
 * The Twelfth of Never (novel) (Louis Nowra)
 * The Unchosen Land (Robert Ingpen)
 * The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony (Hal Porter)
 * Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (novel) (M. Barnard Eldershaw)
 * Warne's World (Louis Nowra)
 * When the Pelican Laughed (Alice Nannup)

Journals

 * Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
 * ''Famous Reporter
 * ''Going Down Swinging
 * HEAT (magazine) - stub, but needs improvement
 * Island (journal)

Authors

 * David Conyers - unreferenced

Novels & Misc

 * Australian Horror Writers Association - improve references

Novel Stubs

 * Of a Boy - unreferenced
 * Oscar and Lucinda - unreferenced
 * Shallows


 * Our Sunshine - unreferenced
 * The Lambing Flat - unreferenced
 * The Rosie Result

Publishers

 * Black Dog Books - stub
 * Giramondo Publishing - improve refs
 * Makar Press
 * Nelson Books
 * Scribe - stub
 * Transit Lounge
 * University of Queensland Press - improve

Other topics

 * Austral Society - stub
 * Australian Bush Poetry- improve
 * Ipswich Poetry Feast - tagged refimprove