This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1894.
For an overview of world literature see 1894 in literature.
See also: 1893 in Australian literature, 1894 in Australia, 1895 in Australian literature.
Rolf Boldrewood – A Modern Buccaneer
Guy Boothby – In Strange Company : A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas
Carlton Dawe – Confessions of a Currency Girl
Mary Gaunt – Dave's Sweetheart
Nat Gould – Stuck Up
E. W. Hornung
The Boss of Taroomba
The Unbidden Guest
Fergus Hume – The Nameless City: a Rommany Romance
George McIver – Neuroomia: A New Continent: A Manuscript Delivered from the Deep
Ethel Turner – Seven Little Australians
Louis Becke
By Reef and Palm
"A Dead Loss"
Ernest Favenc
Tales of the Austral Tropics
"An Unquiet Spirit"
Henry Lawson
"Enter Mitchell"
"Bush Cats"
Louisa Lawson – "Manager and Muddler"
Hume Nisbet – The Haunted Station and Other Stories
Jennings Carmichael – "A Woman's Mood"
Victor J. Daley – "A Vision of Youth"
Edward Dyson – "The Rescue"
George Essex Evans – "McCarthy's Brew: A Gulf Country Yarn"
Charles Augustus Flower – "A Thousand Miles Away"
Henry Lawson
"Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers"
"The Fire at Ross's Farm"
"In the Days When the World Was Wide"
Breaker Morant – "Beyond His Jurisdiction"
John Shaw Neilson – "Before the Looking Glass"
Will H. Ogilvie – "The Riding of the Rebel"
A. B. Paterson
"How Gilbert Died"
"How the Favourite Beat Us"
"Saltbush Bill"
"The Travelling Post Office"
"A Voice from the Town"
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1894 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
7 January – Jean Devanny, novelist (died 1962)
31 August – A. B. Facey, novelist (died 1982)
22 October – Paul Grano, poet (died 1975)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1894 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
28 November – Alice Ashton Eastmure, poet (born 1833)
