2025 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2025.
Events
- Text Publishing is acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah – Discipline
- Omar Musa – Fierceland
- Josephine Rowe – ''Little World''
Crime and mystery
- James Bradley – Landfall
- Catherine Jinks – Panic
- Dervla McTiernan – ''The Unquiet Grave''
Science fiction and Fantasy
- James Islington – The Strength of the Few
- Angela Slatter – The Crimson Road
- Emma Sloley – ''The Island of Last Things''
Children's and young adult
- Lili Wilkinson – ''Unhallowed Halls''
Non-Fiction
- Robert Dessaix – Chameleon
- Brenda Niall – ''Joan Lindsay''
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
| ALS Gold Medal | Fiona McFarlane | Highway 13 | Allen & Unwin |
| Colin Roderick Award | Khin Myint | Fragile Creatures : A Memoir | Black Inc |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Robbie Arnott | Dusk | Picador |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Nam Le | 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem | Scribner |
| Stella Prize | Michelle de Kretser | Theory & Practice | Text Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Wanda Gibson | Three Dresses | University of Queensland Press |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – Book of the Year | Alan Fyfe | G-d, Sleep, and Chaos | Gazebo |
Fiction
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
| Davitt Award | Novel | Vikki Wakefield | To the River | Text Publishing |
| Davitt Award | Young adult novel | Erin Gough | Into the Mouth of the Wolf | Hardie Grant Publishing |
| Davitt Award | Children's novel | Judith Rossell | The Midwatch | Hardie Grant Publishing |
| Davitt Award | Non-fiction | Lucia Osborne-Crowley | The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell | Allen and Unwin |
| Davitt Award | Debut | Georgia Harper | What I Would Do to You | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Davitt Award | Readers' choice | Dervla McTiernan | What Happened to Nina? | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Margaret Hickey | The Creeper | Random House Australia |
| Ned Kelly Award | First novel | Lisa Kenway | All You Took From Me | Transit Lounge |
| Ned Kelly Award | True crime | Steve Johnson | A Thousand Miles from Care | HarperCollins Publishers |
Deaths
- 26 March — Kerry Greenwood, novelist and lawyer
- 19 April — Damien Broderick, sf novelist
- 5 May — Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic
- 10 June — Leanne Frahm, sf author
- 6 August — David Dale, journalist and travel writer
- 27 August — Charmaine Papertalk Green, poet and artist
- 17 November — Robert Gray, poet and critic
- 11 December — Jean Bedford, novelist
- 16 December — Chris Wallace-Crabbe, poet and academic