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
• Richard Frankland – playwright, scriptwriter and musician
• 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
• Philip McLaren – author, academic and artist
• 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 – last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) – poet
• Bruce Pascoe
• Doris Pilkington Garimara
• Kerry_Reed-Gilbert (1956–2019) – activist, writer, artist, editor, educator
• Ronald Roe – writer
• Kim Scott – novelist
• Kirli Saunders – author and poet
• Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator
• Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations
• David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author
• James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher
• 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 theatre

• Roger Bennett – playwright
• Wayne Blair – television writer, actor and director
• Jimmy Chi – composer, musician and playwright
• Richard Frankland – playwright, filmmaker, singer, songwriter
• David Page – composer, musician and playwright
• Stephen Page – film director, choreographer

Journalism

• Dan Bourchier
• Miriam Corowa
• Jeremy Geia
• Freda Glynn
• Karla Grant – NITV anchor of Living Black
• Stan Grant
• John Newfong
• Rhianna Patrick
• Jack Patten

Non-fiction

• Frances Bodkin
• Veronica Gorrie

Essays and academia

• Chelsea Watego – academic and writer