This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1922.
For an overview of world literature see 1922 in literature.
See also: 1921 in Australian literature, 1922 in Australia, 1923 in Australian literature.
Mary Grant Bruce — The Stone Axe of Burkamukk
Bernard Cronin — Bluff Stakes
Jean Curlewis — Drowning Maze
Dulcie Deamer — The Street of the Gazelle
Edward Dyson — The Grey Goose Comedy Company
Havelock Ellis — Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll
Mary Gilmore — The Hound of the Road
Nat Gould
A Dangerous Stable
Racing Rivals
Vance Palmer — The Boss of Killara
E. J. Brady — "The Coachman's Yarn"
C. J. Dennis — "Woolloomooloo"
Mabel Forrest
"Kassaptu: (The Assyrian Witch)"
Streets and Gardens
Lesbia Harford — "The Psychological Craze"
Henry Lawson — "On the Night Train"
Hugh McCrae — "The Watchers"
John Shaw Neilson — "Schoolgirls Hastening"
Will H. Ogilvie — Galloping Shoes: Verses
Kenneth Slessor
"Nuremberg"
"Pan at Lane Cove"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Myra Morris — Us Five
Ethel Turner — Jennifer, J.
Lilian Turner — Peggy the Pilot
Edward Dyson — "The Accursed Thing"
Mary Gilmore — "On the Track to Braidwood"
Vance Palmer — "The Black Mare"
C. J. Dennis & Bert Bailey — The Sentimental Bloke
Louis Esson — The Battler
Alec H. Chisholm — Mateship with Birds
Mary Gaunt — Where the Twain Meet
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1922 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
2 August — Geoffrey Dutton, poet (died 1998)
28 August — Jacob C. Rosenberg, poet and novelist (died 2008)
Unknown date
Peter Bladen, poet (died 2001)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1922 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
14 February — Bertram Stevens, editor and critic (born 1872)
17 June — Henry Lawson, poet and short story writer (born 1867)
