This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1967.
Major publications
Books
A. Bertram Chandler – Nebula Alert
Jon Cleary – The Long Pursuit
Kenneth Cook – Tuna
Dymphna Cusack – The Sun is Not Enough
Catherine Gaskin – Edge of Glass
Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes
Eric Lambert – Hiroshima Reef
Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
Tony Morphett – Dynasty
Barry Oakley – A Wild Ass of a Man
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Subtle Flame
Kylie Tennant – Tell Morning This
George Turner – The Lame Dog Man
Short stories
Beatrice Davis – Short Stories of Australia - The Moderns (edited) Frank Hardy – Billy Borker Yarns Again Shirley Hazzard – People in Glass Houses Douglas Stewart – Short Stories of Australia - The Lawson Tradition (edited) Kylie Tennant – Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals Jack Wodhams – "There is a Crooked Man"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Hesba Brinsmead – A Sapphire for September
Nan Chauncy – Mathinna's People
Mavis Thorpe Clark – Blue Above the Trees
Eleanor Spence – The Sitherby Pilgrims
Ivan Southall
The Fox Hole
To the Wild Sky
Randolph Stow – Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy
Poetry
Bruce Dawe – "Life-Cycle" Geoffrey Dutton – Poems Soft and Loud Rodney Hall – Eyewitness : Poems Gwen Harwood – "In Brisbane" Dorothy Hewett – The Hidden Journey Les Murray – "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" David Rowbotham – Bungalow and Hurricane : new poems Thomas Shapcott – A Taste of Salt Water : Poems Douglas Stewart – Collected Poems 1936-1967 Chris Wallace-Crabbe – The Rebel General
Plays
Dorothy Hewett - This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
Biography
Donald Horne – The Education of Young Donald
Lionel Lindsay – Comedy of Life : An Autobiography
Robert Menzies – Afternoon Light : Some Memories of Men and Events
Bill Scott – Focus on Judith Wright
Awards and honours
Literary
Children and Young Adult
Poetry
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1967 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
15 May – James Bradley, novelist
23 May – Sean Williams, novelist
Unknown date
Nikki Gemmell, novelist
Melissa Lucashenko, novelist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1967 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
21 January – Cecil Mann, journalist, poet and novelist (born 1896) 7 February – David Unaipon, writer (born 1872) 29 March – D'Arcy Niland, novelist (born 1917) 10 September – Vera Dwyer, novelist (born 1889) 25 November – Hal Gye, artist and writer (born 1887) 31 December - Arthur Mailey, cricketer and journalist (born 1886)
Unknown date
Llywelyn Lucas, poet (born 1898)