2018 in Australian literature

Major publications

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
• Liane Moriarty – Nine Perfect Strangers
• Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• Kristina Olsson – Shell
• Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives
• Kim Scott – Taboo
• Tracy Sorensen – The Lucky Galah
• Elise Valmorbida – The Madonna of the Mountains
• 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
• Sam Hawke – City of Lies
• 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
• Brook Emery ed. — Naming the Particulars
• 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
• David Williamson – ''Nearer the Gods''

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 – 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
• Maria Tumarkin – ''Axiomatic''

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

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