2014 in Australian literature

Events

• The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers.
• The Voss Literary Prize is awarded for the first time.

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Tribe
• Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies
• Emily Bitto – The Strays
• Peter Carey – Amnesia
• Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
• Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
• Mark Henshaw – The Snow Kimono
• 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
• Liane Moriarty – Big Little Lies
• 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
• Christos Tsiolkas – Merciless Gods
• Rohan Wilson – ''To Name Those Lost''

Short stories

• Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals
• Ellen van Neerven – ''Heat and Light''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Trace Balla – Rivertime
• Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
• Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
• Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli
• Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
• Rebecca James – Cooper Bartholomew 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
• Peter Corris – Silent Kill
• 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''

Poetry

• Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems
• Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford
• 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
• Erik Jensen – Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
• 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

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist
• 20 March – Joan O'Hagan, crime novelist
• 10 April – Doris Pilkington Garimara, novelist
• 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic
• 19 September – Rod Milgate, playwright and painter
• 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist
• 3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher
• 1 December – Rocky Wood, horror writer and researcher