List of Indigenous Australian writers
Numerous Indigenous Australians are notable for their contributions to Australian literature and journalism. Indigenous Australian literature includes fiction, plays, letters, essays and other works.
Literature
- Faith Bandler — activist and novelist
- Larissa Behrendt — activist, lawyer and novelist
- Lisa Bellear — dramatist and poet
- Charmaine Bennell — children's fiction
- Iris Burgoyne — autobiographer
- Burnum Burnum — writer and educator, tireless proponent of reconciliation
- Ken Canning — poet and activist
- Mary Carmel Charles — children's fiction
- Claire G. Coleman — writer and poet
- Jack Davis — poet and playwright
- Wesley Enoch — playwright, director
- Lionel Fogarty — poet and activist
- Kevin Gilbert — activist, writer, artist
- Jane Harrison — playwright
- Ruth Hegarty — writer
- Anita Heiss — novelist, poet and children's author
- Kate Howarth — writer, memoirist
- Marnie Kennedy — autobiographer
- Ruby Langford Ginibi — writer, historian, autobiographer
- Melissa Lucashenko — novelist
- Ray Mancini — writer, educator
- Olga Miller — historian, artist and author
- Sally Morgan — writer
- Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) — poet, author, playwright (note: Johnson's Aboriginality is contested by many)
- Big Bill Neidjie
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) — poet
- Bruce Pascoe
- Doris Pilkington Garimara
- Ronald Roe — Writer
- Kim Scott — novelist
- Kirli Saunders — author and poet
- Margaret Tucker — activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations
- Ellen van Neerven — novelist and poet
- Sam Watson — novelist and filmmaker
- Samuel Wagan Watson — poet
- Herb Wharton — poet and novelist
- Tara June Winch — novelist
- Alexis Wright — Miles Franklin Award winning novelist
Music and Theater
- Roger Bennett — playwright
- Wayne Blair — television writer, actor and director
- Jimmy Chi — composer, musician and playwright
- Richard Frankland — playwright, filmmaker, singer, songwriter
Journalism
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