This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.

• 1 January
  • The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz,^[1] cookery writer Claudia Roden^[2] and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.^[3][4]
  • A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.^[5]
• 5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.^[6]
• 11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.^[7]
• 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.^[8]
• 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.^[9]
• 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.^[10]
• 28 May – Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
• 2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood)^[11] and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.^[12]
• 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.^[13]
• 12 August – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.^[14][15]

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

• Matilda the Musical