This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1924.
Books
Dale Collins – Ordeal : A Novel
Dulcie Deamer – The Devil's Saint
Mabel Forrest – The Wild Moth
Arthur Gask – The Secret of the Garden
D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner – The Boy in the Bush
Vance Palmer – Cronulla: A Story of Station Life
Steele Rudd – Me an' th' Son
Ethel Turner – Nicola Silver
Short stories
Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Grey Horse"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Charles Barrett – Bushland Babies
Mary Grant Bruce – Billabong's Daughter
Jean Curlewis – The Dawn Man
May Gibbs – Chucklebud and Wunkydoo
Lilian Turner – Jill of the Fourth Form
Poetry
Robert Crawford – "Shadow Song" Dulcie Deamer – "Messalina" C. J. Dennis – Rose of Spadgers Mary Gilmore – "The Brucedale Scandal" Henry Lawson – Humorous Verses Dorothea Mackellar "Australian Autumn" "Heritage" "An Old Song" Jack Moses – "Nine Miles From Gundagai" John Shaw Neilson "Love in Absence" "So Sweet a Mouth Has She" Will H. Ogilvie – "The Death of Ben Hall" Dowell O'Reilly – The Prose and Verse of Dowell O'Reilly Kenneth Slessor "Thief of the Moon" "Undine"
Drama
Vance Palmer – The Black Horse and Other Plays
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1924 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
31 May – Patsy Adam-Smith, author (died 2001) 16 July – Deirdre Cash (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (died 1963) 27 August – David Rowbotham, poet (died 2010) 1 October – Leonie Kramer, academic and critic (died 2016)
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1924 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
11 March – Archibald Meston, journalist and explorer (born 1851 in Scotland)