2015 in Australian literature

Major publications

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
• Merlinda Bobis – Locust Girl: A Lovesong
• James Bradley – Clade
• Trudi Canavan — Angel of Storms
• Isobelle Carmody – The Red Queen
• Kate Forsyth — The Beast of Blackmoor Bog
• Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff — Illuminae
• Jane Rawson – ''Formaldehyde''

Romance

• Alison Goodman — ''The Dark Days Club''

Poetry

• Robert Adamson – Net Needle
• David Brooks – Open House
• Brook Emery, with Sarah Holland-Batt eds. —
• Clive James – Sentenced to Life
• Les Murray – ''Waiting for the Past''

Drama

• Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home
• 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
• 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

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

International

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

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