Supper Waltz Wilson and other New Zealand stories, Pegasus Press, 1979
The Master of Big Jingles and other stories, John McIndoe, 1982
The Day Hemingway Died and other stories, John McIndoe, 1984
The Lynx Hunter and other stories, John McIndoe, 1987
The Divided World, John McIndoe, 1989
Tomorrow We Save the Orphans, John McIndoe, 1992
The Ace Diamonds Gang and other stories, John McIndoe, 1993
Coming Home in the Dark, Vintage, 1995
The Best of Owen Marshall’s Short Stories, Vintage, 1997
When Gravity Snaps, Vintage, 2002
Watch of Gryphons and other stories, Vintage, 2005
Owen Marshall selected stories (edited by Vincent O’Sullivan), Vintage, 2008
Living as a Moon, Vintage, 2009
A Many Coated Man, Longacre Press, 1995
Harlequin Rex, Vintage, 1999, published in France
as Les Hommes Fanes by Payot and Rivages, 2006
Drybread, Vintage, 2007
The Larnachs, Vintage, 2011
Carnival Sky, Vintage, 2014
Love as a Stranger, Vintage, 2016
Pearly Gates, Vintage, 2019
Occasional: Fifty Poems, Hazard Press, 2004
Sleepwalking in Antarctica, Canterbury University Press, 2010
The White Clock, Otago University Press, 2014
View from the South (with photographs by Grahame Sydney), Vintage, 2018
Timeless Land (with artist Grahame Sydney and poet Brian Turner), Longacre Press, 1995
Landmarks (with artist Grahame Sydney and poet Brian Turner), Godwit, 2020
Burning Boats (short stories), Longman Paul, 1994
Letter from Heaven (poetry), Longman Paul, 1995
Beethoven’s Ears (short stories), Longman Paul, 1996
Spinning a Line, Vintage, 1999
Author’s Choice (short stories), Penguin, 2001
Essential New Zealand Stories, Vintage, 2002, new enlarged edition, 2009
Sunday 22, anthology of short stories, Vintage, 2006
The Best New Zealand Fiction, vol. 5, Vintage, 2008
The Best New Zealand Fiction, vol. 6, Vintage, 2009
An Indirect Geography, radio play, Radio NZ, 1991
‘Inside New Zealand’ and ‘NZ: Sanctuary Seekers’ scripts, Natural History NZ Ltd documentaries