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George Ernest “Bartlett” Adamson was an Australian journalist, poet, author and political activist.

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Ivy Alvarez is a New Zealand-based Filipino Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, South Africa, and online.

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Bertha Southey Brammall was an Australian writer. A direct descendant of English Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Brammall wrote material for children's radio programs as well as poems, novels and short stories for adults. She was widely considered to be Tasmania's own poet and novelist.

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John Cyril "Jack" Cato, F.R.P.S. was a significant Australian portrait photographer in the Pictorialist style, operating in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the author of the first history of Australian photography; The Story of the Camera in Australia (1955)

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Nan Chauncy was a British-born Australian children's writer.

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Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, sub-librarian and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, widely regarded as a classic work about convictism in Australia, that has been adapted into many plays, films and a folk opera.

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Jessie Catherine Couvreur was an Australian novelist.

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Norma Lochlenah Davis was an Australian poet.

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Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, "considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist. Each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. He also has written and directed feature films. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

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Jane Ada Fletcher (1870–1956) was a Tasmanian poet and author, publishing works on ornithology, history, anthropology, and fiction.

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Kate Gordon is an Australian writer of young adult fiction.

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Bradley Trevor Greive is an Australian author. He has written 24 books which have been translated into 27 different languages, and have been sold in 115 different countries, several of which have appeared in the New York Times bestseller list. Greive's work has won multiple awards worldwide and has sold more than 25 million copies. He lives mostly in Tasmania, Alaska and California.

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William Nevin Tatlow Hurst, ISO was a senior Tasmanian civil servant. In 1925 he succeeded the Tasmanian Surveyor-General, E A Counsel, as the head of the Tasmanian Department of Lands and Surveys, although with the title of Secretary for Lands.

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Edith Joan Lyttleton was an Australasian author, who wrote as G. B. Lancaster. She was born in Tasmania, and brought up on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand. She produced 13 novels, a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.

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Louisa Anne Meredith, also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers.

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Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".

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Heather Rose is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her novels are Bruny, The Museum of Modern Love, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife, White Heart and for children Finding Serendipity, A Week Without Tuesday and Blueberry Pancakes Forever. Her diverse and award-winning career has spanned advertising, business, the arts and writing. Her latest novel, Bruny was published in Australia in October 2019.

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Margaret Daphne Scott was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual.

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Garnet Walch, was an Australian writer, dramatist, journalist and publisher. From 1872 on, he became very popular as author of numerous pantomimes, burlesques, melodramas, comedies and comediettas.

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The Rev. John West emigrated from England to Van Diemen's Land in 1838 as a Colonial missionary, and became pastor of an Independent (Congregational) Chapel in Launceston's St. John's Square. He also co-founded The Examiner newspaper in 1842 and was later editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.