This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1904.
For an overview of world literature see 1904 in literature.
See also: 1903 in Australian literature, 1904 in Australia, 1905 in Australian literature.
Louis Becke – Tom Gerrard
Guy Boothby
A Bid for Freedom
A Bride from the Sea
A Consummate Scoundrel
A Desperate Conspiracy
An Ocean Secret
Ada Cambridge – Sisters: A Novel
G. B. Lancaster – Sons O' Men
Louise Mack – Children of the Sun
Rosa Praed – Nyria
Ethel Turner – Mother's Little Girl
Louis Becke – Under Tropic Skies
Mabel Forrest – The Rose of Forgiveness and Other Stories
Banjo Paterson – "The Oracle at the Races"
Steele Rudd – Sandy's Selection
Ethel Turner – "The Carrying of the Baby"
Victor J. Daley
"Anacreon"
"Moderation"
"Over the Wine"
"The Parson and the Prelate"
George Essex Evans – "A Drought Idyll"
John Farrell – My Sundowner and Other Poems
Henry Lawson
"The Ballad of the Elder Son"
"The Last Review"
"New Life, New Love"
Louisa Lawson
"Back Again"
"Coming Home"
Will Lawson – "Shelling Peas"
Furnley Maurice – Some More Verses
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
29 January – John Morrison, short story writer (died 1998)
11 March – Hope Spencer, poet (died 1969)
13 June – John K. Ewers, poet and novelist (died 1978)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
8 January – John Farrell, poet (born 1851)
24 February – Jennings Carmichael, poet and writer (born 1867)
