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Edith Susan Gerard Anderson, who became Edith Susan Boyd when she married, was an Australian artist, dramatist, and painter. She was also known for being a model for the artist Emanuel Phillips Fox, notably in his 1912 painting Nasturtiums.

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Millicent Sylvia Armstrong was an Australian playwright and farmer who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.

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Vanessa "Van" Badham is an Australian writer and social commentator. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the Guardian Australia website.

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Mona Brand was a twentieth-century Australian playwright, poet and freelance writer. She also wrote under the name Alexis Fox.

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Ethel Marian Sumner "Maie" Casey, Baroness Casey, AC, FRSA was an Australian pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist. Richard Casey, Baron Casey was her husband.

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Alison Croggon is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.

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Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM was an Australian author and playwright.

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Marguerite Ludovia Dale was an Australian playwright and feminist.

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Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor. She was a founder and committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

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Henrietta Drake-Brockman was an Australian journalist and novelist.

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Mary Hannay Foott, was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem,"Where the Pelican Builds".

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Jane Harrison is an Indigenous Australian playwright, novelist, writer and researcher.

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Helena Sumner Locke known as Sumner Locke was an Australian novelist, dramatist/playwright, poet and short story writer. Her sister was the socialist Lilian Locke.

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Chris Mansell is an Australian poet and publisher.

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Gwenyth Valmai Meredith OBE, also known by her married name Gwen Harrison, was an Australian author, dramatist and playwright, and radio writer. She is best known for her radio serials The Lawsons (1944–1949) and the longer-running Blue Hills (1949–1976).

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Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.

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Peta Murray is an Australian writer, born in Sydney in 1958. Best known as a playwright, she also writes short stories and essays and is a freelance dramaturg, director and occasional performer. She leads a parallel life as a teacher of creative writing and late-blooming academic researcher, in the Higher Education sector.

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Ailsa Mary-Ellen Piper is an Australian writer, director and performer.

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Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.

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Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.

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Leah Purcell is an Indigenous Australian actress, director and writer. She is a Helpmann Award and AACTA Award winner.

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Wendy Richardson, OAM is one of Australia's most popular playwrights, best known as the author of Windy Gully. Richardson lives in Mount Kembla near Wollongong, New South Wales. She is very active in the local community, working with disabled and disadvantaged youth, assisting those in need, teaching Sunday School and participating in historical and literary events.

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Melanie Tait is an Australian radio broadcaster, playwright and author. She is from Robertson, New South Wales.

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Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian.