This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1902.
For an overview of world literature see 1902 in literature.
See also: 1901 in Australian literature, 1902 in Australia, 1903 in Australian literature.
Louis Becke – Breachley, Black Sheep
Rolf Boldrewood – The Ghost Camp, or, The Avengers
Guy Boothby
The Childerbridge Mystery
The Curse of the Snake
The Kidnapped President
Louise Mack – An Australian Girl in London
Rosa Praed – The Insane Root: A Romance of a Strange Country
Ethel Turner – The Raft in the Bush
Lilian Turner – Young Love
Barbara Baynton – Bush Studies
Louis Becke
The Jalasco Brig
The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton and Other Stories
Guy Boothby – Uncle Joe's Legacy and Other Stories
Henry Lawson
"A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father"
Children of the Bush
"Send Round the Hat"
A. B. Paterson
"Sitting in Judgement : A Show Ring Sketch"
"Thirsty Island"
Rosa Praed – Dwellers by the River
E. J. Brady – The Earthen Floor
James William Harbinson – Poems
Breaker Morant and Frank Renar – Bushman and Buccaneer: Harry Morant: His 'Ventures and Verses
Breaker Morant – "Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday"
A. B. Paterson – Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
Victor J. Daley – "The Woman at the Washtub"
J. Brunton Stephens – The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens
Charles Haddon Chambers
The Awakening: A Play in Four Acts
A Modern Magdalen
The Open Gate: An Original Domestic Drama in One Act
J. H. M. Abbott – Tommy Cornstalk : Being Some Account of the Less Notable Features of the South African War from the Point of View of the Australian Ranks (1902)
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1902 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
22 February – Robert D. Fitzgerald, poet (died 1987)
2 May – Alan Marshall, novelist (died 1984)
17 July – Christina Stead, novelist (died 1983)
21 September – Dymphna Cusack, novelist (died 1981)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1902 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
15 February – Arthur Patchett Martin, writer and editor (born 1851)
29 June – James Brunton Stephens, poet and editor (born 1835)
9 December – Breaker Morant, poet (born 1864)
