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Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 Australian speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.

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Black Juice is the first collection of short stories by Australian writer Margo Lanagan. It was released in paperback by Allen and Unwin in 2004, and features the author's widely anthologised short story "Singing My Sister Down", which won the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.

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The Burnt Ones is a collection of eleven short stories by Australian writer Patrick White, first published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1964. Penguin Books published it in 1968 with reprints in 1972 and 1974. Each story in the collection, whose title refers to people burnt by society, has a reference to burning actually and in metaphor.

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Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales is a 2005 speculative fiction anthology edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen.

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Dream Stuff is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer David Malouf, published in 2000.

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Dream Weavers is a 1996 fantasy anthology edited by Paul Collins.

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Dreaming Down-Under is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb.

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Eidolon I is a 2006 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne.

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Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places is the third short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2003 and edited by Michael Barry, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors.

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The Grinding House is a short story collection published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.

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Over the Sliprails (1900) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1900, and features some of the author's lesser known stories.

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Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy is a 2008 speculative fiction anthology edited by Ekaterina Sedia.

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Postcards from Surfers is a collection of short works by Australian writer Helen Garner published in 1985. The book won the 1986 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards "Christina Stead Prize for Fiction". The stories in the collection have been described as "largely about miscommunication, impossible love, and the accidental hurt we cause each other when we interact." Most of the short works in Postcards from Surfers have been included in a 2017 anthology of Garner's short fiction simply called Stories.

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Rain Stones is a 1991 short story collection by Australian author Jackie French. It is notable for being the first children's book written by the author.

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Reading Madame Bovary (2010) is a collection of short stories by Australian author Amanda Lohrey. It won the Fiction Prize and Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2011.

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Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve

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These Small Glories was a collection of short stories by Australian author Jon Cleary which was published in 1946. They were set during World War Two, during which Cleary had served in the Australian army.

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True Stories is a collection of short non-fiction works by Australian writer Helen Garner first published in 1996 by Text Publishing. The short works in the collection start with Garner's immediate notes as a school teacher to her journalist accounts of visiting a morgue and a maternity ward in a hospital.

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The Wild North is a 1960 book by Ion Idriess. It is a collection of 24 short stories and sketches about Cape York, some of which were written early in Idriess' career.

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Woman in a Lamp Shade is a 1983 collection of short stories by Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley. The collection contains the following stories:"Pear Tree Dance" "Adam's Bride" from Meanjin, 1979 "Hilda's Wedding" from Looselicks, 1976 "Two Men Running" from The Bulletin, 1981 "Uncle Bernard's Proposal" from Landfall, 1973 "Paper Children" "The Play Reading"from Australian Good Housekeeping, 1981 "The Libation" "One Christmas Knitting" from Memories of Childhood edited by Lee White, 1978 "Butter Butter Butter for a Boat" "Woman in a Lampshade" from Westerly, 1979 "Wednesdays and Fridays" from Quadrant, 1981 "Dingle the Fool" from Quadrant, 1972 "The Representative" "Clever and Pretty" "The Shed" from New Country edited by Bruce Bennett, 1976 "The Last Crop"

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The Yellow Joss and Other Tales is a collection of short stories from Ion Idriess. They focus on life in north Australia.