1891 in Australian literature

• Jennings Carmichael – Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
• Charles Haddon Chambers – Thumb-Nail Sketches of Australian Life
• Fergus Hume – Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage
• Hume Nisbet
  • The Black Drop
  • The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land

• Mary Gaunt – "The Yanyilla Steeplechase"
• Louisa Lawson – "A Bush Experience"
• A. B. Paterson
  • "The Cast-Iron Canvasser"
  • "His Masterpiece"
• Campbell Praed – "The Bunyip"
• Price Warung
  • "John Price's Bar of Steel"
  • "The Liberation of the First Three"

• Barcroft Boake
  • "The Digger's Song"
  • "On the Range"
  • "Where the Dead Men Lie"
• Victor J. Daley – "Lachesis"
• George Essex Evans
  • "An Australian Symphony"
  • The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems
• Henry Lawson
  • "Freedom on the Wallaby"
  • "My Literary Friend"
  • "The Shame of Going Back"
• Louisa Lawson – "A Dream"
• Harriet Anne Patchett Martin – Coo-ee : Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies (edited)
• J. B. O'Hara – Songs of the South
• A. B. Paterson
  • "An Evening in Dandaloo"
  • "The Flying Gang: A Railroad Song"
  • "In the Droving Days"
  • "A Mountain Station"
  • "The Open Steeplechase"
• Alice Werner – "Bannerman of Dandenong: An Australian Ballad"

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 9 April – Lesbia Harford, poet (died 1927)

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 1891 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature