List of Australian women writers

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This is a list of women writers who were born in Australia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

B

C

  • Eena Marie Crowley / Esther Roland
  • Jessie Couvreur (1848–1897), novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Tasma'.

D

E

F

  • Diane Fahey (born 1945), poet and short story writer.
  • Suzanne Falkiner (born 1952), novelist and non-fiction writer.
  • Beverley Farmer (born 1941), short story writer.
  • Beatrice Faust (born 1939), women's activist and non-fiction writer.
  • Minnie Agnes Filson (1898–1971), poet who wrote under the pseudonym 'Ricketty Kate'.[1]
  • Mary Finnin (born 1906), poet.[1]
  • Lala Fisher (1872–1929), poet and editor.
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905–1990), historian, biographer and critic.
  • Jane Ada Fletcher (c.1871–1956), nature writer and children's writer.
  • Bethia Foott, novelist and non-fiction writer.[1]
  • Mrs James Foott, non-fiction writer.[1]
  • Mary Hannay Foott (1846–1918), poet and editor.
  • Mabel Forrest (1872–1935), novelist and poet.
  • Thelma Forshaw (born 1923), short story writer and reviewer.
  • Mary Fortune (c.1833–1911), detective story writer, under the pseudonym 'Waif Wander'.
  • Lynn Foster (born 1913), playwright and novelist.[1]
  • Miles Franklin (1879–1954), novelist and journalist, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym 'Brent of Bin Bin'.
  • Robyn Friend (born 1942), fiction writer and biographer.[1]
  • Mary Fullerton (1868–1946), poet and novelist who published under several pseudonyms ('E', 'Alpenstock', etc.).[1]

G

  • Neilma Gantner / Neilma Sidney

H

K

  • Vasso Kalamaras
  • Diana Kan (born 1934)
  • Elizabeth Kata
  • Nancy Keesing (1923–1993)
  • Antigone Kefala (born 1935)
  • Carmel Kelly
  • Gwen Kelly (1922-2012)
  • Doris Boake Kerr / Capel Boake (1899–1945)
  • Margaret Loch Kiddle (1914–1958)
  • Katharine King
  • Beverley Kingston (born 1941)
  • Valerie Grierson Kirwan (born 1943)
  • Colleen Klein (born 1921)
  • Robin Klein (born 1936)
  • Marion Miller Knowles (1965–1949)
  • Jeri Kroll (born 1946)

L

  • Leah Kaminsky, novelist, non-fiction writer and poet.
  • Isabel Ladds, short story writer and playwright.[1]
  • Elizabeth Lambert (born 1918), poet.[1]
  • Mary Lang (1914-1966), poet.[1]
  • Gertrude Langer (1908–1984), art critic.
  • Ruby Langford Ginibi (1934–2001), historian and non-fiction writer.
  • Eve Langley (1908–1974), novelist and poet.
  • Dorothy Langsford (1896-1992), novelist.[1]
  • Coral Lansbury (1929–1991), novelist and academic.
  • Justine Larbalestier (born 1967), writer of young adult fiction.
  • Glenda Larke, fantasy novelist and non-fiction writer.
  • Nel Law (1914–1990), artist, poet and diarist.
  • Bertha Lawson (1876–1957), memoirist.[1]
  • Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), poet, writer, publisher, suffragist and feminist.
  • Sylvia Lawson (born 1932), historian, journalist and critic.[1]
  • Simone Lazaroo (born 1961), novelist.
  • Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827–1881), poet and novelist.
  • Ida Lee (c.1875–1943), historian and poet.
  • Joyce Lee (1913–2007), poet.[1][2]
  • Valentine Leeper (1900–2001), classicist, polemicist and letter-writer.
  • Julia Leigh (born 1970), novelist, film director and screenwriter.
  • Constance Le Plastrier (1864–1938), novelist and non-fiction writer.[1]
  • Robin Levett (1925–2008), travel writer, novelist, philanthropist, pilot and racehorse breeder.
  • Tanya Levin (born 1971), social worker and non-fiction writer.
  • Julia Ethel Levy, playwright, novelist and poet who sometimes published under the pseudonym 'Juliet'.[1]
  • Wendy Lewis (born 1962), non-fiction writer and playwright.
  • Hilarie Lindsay (born 1922), children's writer, non-fiction writer and poet.[1]
  • Jane Lindsay (born 1920), novelist and biographer.[1]
  • Lady Joan A'Beckett Lindsay (1896–1984), novelist.[1]
  • Rose Lindsay (1885–1978), artist's model, biographer and printmaker.
  • Mary Lisle (1879–1973), poet.[1]
  • Jessie Sinclair Litchfield (1883–1956), poet, non-fiction writer and editor.
  • Agnes Littlejohn, poet, short story writer, novelist and children's writer.[1]
  • Mary Rose Liverani (born 1939), biographer and journalist.[1]
  • Kate Llewellyn (born 1936), poet, diarist and travel writer.
  • Anne Lloyd (born 1954), poet.[1]
  • Jessie Georgiana Lloyd (1843–1885), novelist, essayist and short story writer who published under the pseudonym 'Silverleaf'.[1]
  • Lilian Locke (1869–1950)
  • Sumner Locke (1881–1957), novelist, dramatist, poet and short story writer.
  • Amanda Lohrey (born 1947), novelist and essayist.
  • Joan London (born 24 July 1948), short story writer, screenwriter and novelist.
  • Abie Longstaff, children's writer.
  • Gabrielle Lord (born 1946), crime novelist and short story writer.
  • Melissa Lucashenko (born 1967), writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, and novels for teenagers.
  • Laura Bogue Luffman (1846–1929), novelist and journalist.[1]
  • Catharine Lumby, journalist and academic.
  • Dame Enid Lyons (1897–1981), biographer and politician.
  • Edith Joan Lyttleton (1873–1945), novelist who mostly published under the pseudonym 'G. B. Lancaster'.

M

  • Constance Jane McAdam (1872–1951), writer and suffragette who wrote under the name 'Constance Clyde'.
  • Maxine McArthur (born 1962), science fiction writer.
  • Nora McAuliffe, New Zealand-born poet and journalist.[1]
  • Dorothy Frances McCrae (1878–1937), poet. Also known as 'Mrs C. E. Perry'.[1]
  • Georgiana Huntly McCrae (1804–1890), painter and diarist.
  • Colleen McCullough (1937–2015), novelist.
  • Nan McDonald (1921–1974), poet and editor.
  • Ella May McFadyen (1887–1976), poet, journalist and children's writer.[1]
  • Fiona McGregor (born 1965), writer and performance artist.
  • Frances Margaret McGuire (1900–1995), journalist and novelist.[1]
  • Elizabeth Macintyre (born 1916), children's writer.[1]
  • Amy Mack (1876–1939), children's writer.[1]
  • Louise Mack (1874–1935), poet, journalist and novelist.
  • Edith McKay (1891–1963), novelist and short story writer.
  • Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), poet and fiction writer.
  • Jan McKemmish (born 1950), novelist and short story writer.[1]
  • Tamara McKinley (born 1948), novelist.
  • Linda Macken, novelist.[1]
  • Marjorie McLeod (born 1893), playwright and poet.[1]
  • Rhyll McMaster (born 1947), poet and novelist.
  • Barbara McNamara, best known as 'Elizabeth O'Conner' (1913–2000), novelist who also wrote as 'Anne Willard'.
  • Bertha McNamara (1853–1931), socialist and feminist pamphleteer and bookseller.
  • Kit McNaughton (c.1887–1953), nurse and diarist.
  • Jennifer Maiden (born 1949), poet.
  • Barbara York Main (born 1929), arachnologist.
  • Agnes Newberry Maltby, best known as Peg Maltby (1899–1981?), children's author and illustrator.[1]
  • Doris Manners-Sutton (1895–1972), novelist and journalist.[1]
  • Emilie Manning / Australie (1845–1890), poet and journalist.[1]
  • Chris Mansell (born 1953), poet and publisher.
  • Mary Marlowe (1892–1958), novelist and journalist who also wrote under the name 'Puck'.[1]
  • Pauline Marrington (born 1921), historical novelist.[1]
  • Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1847–1937), novelist and journalist.
  • Harriet Patchett Martin, editor and short story writer.[1]
  • Joan Mas (1926–1974), poet.[1]
  • Nuri Mass (born 1918), children's writer and novelist.[1]
  • Olga Masters (1919–1986), journalist, novelist and short story writer.
  • Christobel Mattingly (born 1931), children's writer.[1]
  • Gillian Mears (1964–2016), short story writer and novelist.
  • Wolla Meranda, novelist.[1]
  • Gwen Meredith (1907–2006), playwright, scriptwriter and novelist.
  • Louisa Meredith (1812–1895), non-fiction writer, poet, novelist and artist.
  • Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002), children's writer.
  • Mary Mitchell (1892–1973), novelist.[1]
  • Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946), writer and editor.
  • Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), poet, autobiographer, suffragist and socialist.
  • Finola Moorhead (born 1947), novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and reviewer.
  • Elinor Mordaunt (c.1872–1942), writer and traveller.
  • Musette Morell (1898–1950), playwright and children's writer.[1]
  • Sally Morgan (born 1951), Aboriginal writer and artist.
  • Liane Moriarty (born 1966), novelist.
  • Meaghan Morris (born 1950), cultural studies scholar.
  • Myra Morris (1893–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer.
  • Di Morrissey (born 1943), novelist.
  • Sally Morrison (born 1946), biographer and fiction writer.
  • Mary Braidwood Mowle (1827–1857), diarist.
  • Nina Murdoch (1890–1976), biographer, travel writer, journalist and poet.
  • Elizabeth Alicia Murray (1820–1877), novelist.[1]
  • Joanna Murray-Smith (born 1962), playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.

N

  • Joice Nankivell, prose writer.[1]
  • Michele Nayman (born 1956), poet and fiction writer.[1]
  • Jill Neville (1932–1997), novelist, playwright and poet.
  • 'Margot Neville', the collaborative pseudonym for novelist sisters Margot Goyder and Anne Neville.[1]
  • Ellen Newton (born 1896), journalist, critic and short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym 'Esther Levy'.[1]
  • Brenda Niall (born 1930), biographer, literary critic and journalist.
  • Joyce Nicholson (1919–2001), author and businesswoman.
  • Deborah Niland (born 1950), writer and illustrator of children's books.
  • Cynthia Nolan (1913?–1976), novelist and travel writer.[1]
  • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), Aboriginal political activist, artist and educator.
  • Lilith Norman (born 1927), children's writer.[1]
  • Marlene Norst (1930–2010), Austrian-born linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist.
  • Joanne Nova, science writer, blogger, and speaker.

O

P

  • Margaret Paice (born 1920), children's writer.[1]
  • Helen Palmer (1917–1979), publisher, educationalist, author, historian and communist.
  • Nettie Palmer (1885–1964), poet, essayist and literary critic.
  • Laura Palmer-Archer (1864–1929), short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym 'Bushwoman'.[1]
  • Susan Parisi (born 1958), Canadian-born writer of horror fiction.
  • Catherine Langloh Parker (c.1855–1940), fiction writer and Aboriginal folklorist.
  • Anne Chapman Parratt (born 1926), poet.[1]
  • Anne Spencer Parry (1931–1985), fantasy writer.
  • Kate Partridge (1871–1953), novelist and poet who also used the pseudonym 'Sydney Partridge'.[1]
  • Jacqueline Pascarl (born 1963), memoirist and parents' rights advocate.
  • Mary Elwyn Patchett (1897–1989), children's writer.[1]
  • Patricia Payne, screenwriter and film producer.
  • Marie Winifred Peacock, novelist.[1]
  • Ethel Pedley (c.1860–1898), author and musician.
  • Lydia Pender (born 1907), children's writer.[1]
  • Barbara Pepworth (born 1955), writer.[1]
  • Grace Perry (1927–1987), poet, publisher and editor.
  • Barbara Petrie (born 1942), poet and children's writer.[1]
  • Hoa Pham, novelist, children's writer and short story writer.
  • Nancy Phelan (1913–2008), novelist and travel writer.
  • Joan Phipson (1912–2003), children's writer.
  • Doris Pilkington Garimara (1937–2014), autobiographical novelist.
  • Marie E. J. Pitt (1869–1948), poet.
  • Marjorie Pizer (1920–2016), poet.
  • Gillian Polack (born 1961), writer and editor of speculative fiction.
  • Leonora Polkinghorne (1873–1953), women's activist and writer.
  • Dorothy Featherstone Porter (born 1954), poet.
  • Marie Porter (born 1939), researcher, writer and advocate for women's and children's welfare.
  • Sue-Ann Post (born 1964), comedian and writer
  • Marguerite Helen Power (1870–1957), poet.[1]
  • Muriel Faucett Power (born c. 1875), poet and children's writer.[1]
  • Eve Pownall (1901–1982), children's writer and historian.
  • Rosa Praed (1851–1935), novelist who also wrote as 'Mrs Campbell Praed'.
  • Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969), novelist and playwright.
  • Kathryn Purnell, poet and editor.[1]
  • Lilian Maxwell Pyke (c.1881–1927), children's writer and novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Erica Maxwell'.[1]

Q

  • Betty Quin (died 1993), script writer.
  • Tarella Quinn (1877–1934), children's writer and novelist.[1]

R

  • Therese Radic (born 1935), playwright and musician.[1]
  • Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye, novelist and non-fiction writer who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Isabel Massary'.[1]
  • Jennifer Rankin (1941–1979), poet and playwright.
  • Rosemary Rees, novelist.[1]
  • Annie Rattray Rentoul, childre's novelist and poet.[1]
  • Ethel Richardson, known by her pseudonym Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946), novelist.
  • Elizabeth Riddell / Betty Riddell (1910–1998), poet and journalist.
  • Elizabeth Riley, novelist.[1]
  • Georgia Rivers / Georgia Rivers/Marjorie Clark (1897–)
  • Annie Louisa Rixon / Annie Rixon-Suddert / Mrs Richard de Clare, novelist.[1]
  • Marjorie Robertson, short story writer.[1]
  • Mary Ann Robertson, poet.[1]
  • Judith Rodriguez (born 1936), poet.
  • Betty Roland (1903–1996), writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics.
  • Agnes Rose-Soley / Rose De Boheme (c.1847–1938), journalist and poet.[1]
  • Alice Grant Rosman (1887–1961), novelist.
  • Frances Emily Russell (1846–1899), novelist.[1]
  • Gig Ryan (born 1956), poet.
  • Liliana Rydzynski, poet, short story writer and essayist.[1]

S

  • Elizabeth Salter (1918–1981), novelist, biographer and academic.[1]
  • Dorothy Lucy Sanders / Lucy Walker (1907–1987)
  • Effie Sandery / Elizabeth Powell (born c.1898), children's writer and journalist.[1]
  • Georgia Savage, novelist.[1]
  • Julianne Schultz (born 1956), non-fiction writer.
  • Margaret Scott (born 1934), poet, critic and academic.
  • Maria J. Scott, novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Mist'.[1]
  • Natalie Scott , novelist, journalist and children's writer.[1]
  • Jocelynne Scutt (born 1947), non-fiction writer and lawyer.[1]
  • Alexandra Seddon (born 1944), poet.[1]
  • Winifred Maitland Shaw (born 1905), poet.[1]
  • Jill Shearer, playwright.[1]
  • Robin Sheiner (born 1940), novelist and short story writer.[1]
  • Catherine Shepherd (1912–1976), playwright.[1]
  • Helen Simpson (1897–1940), novelist, playwright and historian.
  • Mary Simpson (born 1884), short story writer and playwright who published under the pseudonym 'Weeroona'.[1]
  • Millie Skinner (1876–1955), novelist.[1]
  • Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910), novelist, journalist and social reformer.
  • Eleanor Spence (born 1928), children's author.
  • Dale Spender (born 1943), feminist scholar, writer and consultant.
  • Lady Jean Maud Spender, crime novelist under the name J. M. Spender.[1]
  • Leonie Sperling (born 1937), novelist.[1]
  • Mary Brodie Sproule, essayist.[1]
  • Christina Stead (1902–1983), novelist.
  • Barbara Stellmach (born 1930), playwright.[1]
  • Patricia Stonehouse / Harlingham Quinn / Lindsay Russell, novelist.[1]
  • Jennifer Strauss (born 1933), poet and academic.
  • Anne Summers (born 1945), writer and columnist.
  • Bobbi Sykes (born 1943), poet and author.

T

  • Katherine Taylor / David Hamline (born 1893), children's author.[1]
  • Kylie Tennant (born 1912), novelist, playwright, historian, critic and children's author.
  • Angela Thirkell / Leslie Parker (1890–1961), novelist.
  • Margaret Thomas (1843–1929), travel writer, poet and artist.
  • Glen Tomasetti (born 1929), singer-songwriter, novelist and poet.
  • Christine Townsend (born 1944), novelist and animal welfare activist.[1]
  • Pamela Lyndon Travers (born 1906), children's author.
  • Margaret Trist (1914–1986), novelist and short story writer.[1]
  • Ethel Turner (1873–1958), children's author and novelist.
  • Lilian Turner (1867–1956), children's novelist.

U

  • Terry Underwood (born 1944), best-selling Australian author.
  • Jessie Urquhart, novelist.[1]

V

W

  • Kath Walker (1920–1993), Aboriginal poet, short story writer and artist.
  • 'Lucy Walker', pseudonym of Dorothy Lucie Sanders (1907–1987), romance novelist.
  • Dorothy Wall (1894–1942), children's author and illustrator.
  • Ania Walwicz (born 1951), poet, prose writer and visual artist.
  • Elizabeth Russel Ward / Biff Ward (born 1942), non-fiction writer.[1]
  • Kathleen Watson (1870–1926), novelist.[1]
  • Marjorie Weatherly, novelist and poet.[1]
  • Elizabeth Catherine Webb, journalist and novelist.[1]
  • Sarah Welch / 'Europa', novelist and poet.[1]
  • Kate Weston (1863–1929), novelist.[1]
  • Nadia Wheatley (born 1949), children's novelist and freelance writer.
  • Ellen Whinnett (born 1971), journalist.
  • Myrtle Rose White (1888–1961), prose writer.[1]
  • Susan Whiting (born 1947), poet.[1]
  • Margaret Whitlam (1919–2012), social campaigner and autobiographical writer.
  • Dora Wilcox (1873–1953), poet and playwright.
  • Kim Wilkins (born 1966), popular fiction writer.
  • Marian Wilkinson (born 1954), journalist and author.
  • Donna Williams (1963–2017), writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor.
  • Justina Williams, also known as Joan Williams (born 1916), journalist, poet and historian.[1]
  • Ruth Williams (writer) (1897–1962), children's writer.
  • Helen Helga Wilson (born 1902), novelist, short story writer, poet and historian.[1]
  • Margaret Wilson, television writer.
  • Tara June Winch (born 1983), novelist and short story writer.
  • Dallas Winmar, playwright.
  • Eliza Winstanley / Elizabeth Winstanley / Ariele (1818–1882), writer and stage actress.
  • 'Amy Witting, pseudonym of Joan Austral Fraser (1918–2001), novelist and poet.
  • Sabina Wolanski (1927–2011), Holocaust survivor and autobiographical writer.
  • Susan Nugent Wood, poet and essayist.[1]
  • Elizabeth Wood-Ellem (1930–2012), Tongan-born historian.
  • Angela Woollacott (born 1955), historian.
  • Alexis Wright (born 1950), novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer.
  • Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet and environmental activist.
  • June Wright (1919–2012), crime novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer.
  • Patricia Wrightson (1921–2010), children's writer.
  • Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (1885–1959), novelist.

Z

  • Jane Zageris (born 1948), poet and artist.[1]
  • Rose Zwi (born 1928), Mexican-born South African-Australian novelist and short story writer.
  • Fay Zwicky (1933-2017), poet, short story writer, critic and academic.

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