This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1921.
For an overview of world literature see 1921 in literature.
See also: 1920 in Australian literature, 1921 in Australia, 1922 in Australian literature.
William Baylebridge — An Anzac Muster
Capel Boake — The Romany Mark
Jean Curlewis — The Ship That Never Set Sail
Dulcie Deamer — Revelation
Arthur Gask — The Secret of the Sandhills
Fergus Hume — The Unexpected
Jack McLaren — The Oil Seekers: The Tale of New Guinea Beach
Ernest O'Ferrall — Bodger and the Boarders
Katharine Susannah Prichard — Black Opal
Steele Rudd — On Emu Creek
Zora Cross — "Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy"
C. J. Dennis — A Book for Kids
Mary E. Fullerton
"The Selector's Wife"
"War Time"
Lesbia Harford
"Day's End"
"The Folk I Love"
"The Invisible People"
Sumner Locke — In Memoriam: Sumner Locke
Dorothea Mackellar — "Vestal"
Furnley Maurice — "Plunder"
John Shaw Neilson
"For a Little Girl's Birthday"
"The Orange Tree"
"To a School-Girl in Her Fourteenth Year"
John O'Brien
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses
"Said Hanrahan"
"Tangmalangaloo"
"The Trimmin's on the Rosary"
Vance Palmer — "The Snake
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Mary Grant Bruce — Back to Billabong
May Gibbs — Little Obelia, and Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie
Ethel Turner — King Anne
Vance Palmer — A Happy Family
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1921 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
25 January — Russell Braddon, novelist (died 1995)
13 February — Marshall Grover, novelist (died 1993)
13 April — Max Harris, poet and editor (died 1995)
8 June — Ivan Southall, writer for children (died 2008)
19 June — Patricia Wrightson, writer for children (died 2008)
14 August — Ralph Elliott, critic and academic (died 2012)
26 December — Donald Horne, author (died 2010)
Unknown date
Ray Lawler, playwright
John Millet, poet
Dimitris Tsaloumas, poet
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1921 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
22 March — E. W. Hornung, novelist (born 1866)
28 March — C. Haddon Chambers, playwright (born 1860)
18 June — G. Herbert Gibson, poet (born 1846)
13 September — James Hebblethwaite, poet (born 1857)
