This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
| Award | Author | 
|---|---|
| Mona Brand Award [54] | Andrea James | 
| Patrick White Award [55] | Antigone Kefala | 
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal [56] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing | 
| Colin Roderick Award [57] | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Allen & Unwin | 
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [58] | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate | 
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [59] | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | 
| Stella Prize [60] | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press | 
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [61] [62] | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe | 
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Historical Novel Prize [65] | Children and Young Adult | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | HarperCollins | 
| Children's Book of the Year Award [73] | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin | 
| Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild [74] | |||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [58] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | ABC Books | 
| Young Adult | Danielle Binks | The Monster of Her Age | Lothian | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [70] | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP | 
| Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
| Queensland Literary Awards [71] | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books | 
| Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [61] [62] | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | 
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Award [75] | Paperback Original | Dervla McTiernan | The Good Turn | HarperCollins | 
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award [76] | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton | 
| Young adult novel | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text Publishing | |
| Children's novel | Nicki Greenberg | The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel | Affirm Press | |
| Non-fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc | |
| Debut novel | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Ned Kelly Award [77] | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books | 
| First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
| True crime | Debi Marshall | Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders | Vintage Books | |
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [63] | Jodie Albiston | Fifteeners | Puncher & Wattmann | 
| Anne Elder Award [78] | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press | 
| Mary Gilmore Award [79] | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press | 
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards [69] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing | 
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [70] | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press | 
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection [80] | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter | 
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [61] [62] | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | University of Queensland Press | 
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [70] | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
| Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [61] [62] | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | 
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [63] | Non-Fiction | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Fourth Estate | 
| The Age Book of the Year [64] | Non-Fiction | Bennadette Brennan | Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin | 
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [58] | Non-Fiction | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate | 
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Thames and Hudson | |
| National Biography Award [81] [82] | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin | 
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [70] | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | 
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards [83] | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing | 
| Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
| General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards [71] | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press | 
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [61] [62] | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |