This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1912.
For an overview of world literature see 1912 in literature.
See also: 1911 in Australian literature, 1912 in Australia, 1913 in Australian literature.
Mary Grant Bruce — Timothy in Bushland
James Francis Dwyer — The White Waterfall
May Gibbs — About Us
Gertrude Hart — The Dream Girl
Fergus Hume
The Mystery Queen
A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance
Dorothea Mackellar & Ruth M. Bedford — The Little Blue Devil
Ambrose Pratt — A Daughter of the Bush
Steele Rudd — The Old Homestead
Thomas Edward Spencer — Bindawalla: An Australian Story
Lilian Turner — Written Down
Louis Esson — Red Gums and Other Verses
G. Herbert Gibson — Ironbark Splinters from the Australian Bush
Adam Lindsay Gordon — The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon
Sydney Jephcott — Penetralia
Norman Lindsay — Norman Lindsay's Book: No. 1
Hugh McCrae — "Earth"
John Shaw Neilson
"Honeythirst"
"The Lover Sings"
"The Petticoat Plays"
Bernard O'Dowd — The Bush
Charles Henry Souter — Irish Lords and Other Verses
Louis Esson – The Time is Not Yet Ripe
Ethel Turner — Ports and Happy Havens
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1912 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
12 March — Kylie Tennant, novelist (died 1988)
28 March — A. Bertram Chandler, science fiction writer (died 1984)
2 April — Barbara Giles, poet (died 2006)
28 May — Patrick White, novelist (died 1990)
12 June — Roland Robinson, poet (died 1992)
20 July — George Johnston, novelist (died 1970)
16 September — John Jefferson Bray, poet (died 1995)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1912 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
5 April — Robert Dudley Adams, poet (born 1829)
13 September — Joseph Furphy, novelist (born 1843)
