William Thomas Goodge (28 September 1862 – 28 November 1909) was an English writer and journalist, who arrived in Australia in 1882, after jumping ship in Sydney.

He worked in various jobs in New South Wales, including as a coal-miner,[1] until he was engaged to write for The Tribune in North Sydney,[1] a small weekly associated with the Daily Telegraph.

[2] Goodge remained in Orange, becoming part-owner of The Leader at some point, until in the early 1900s he returned to Sydney and began writing for that city's newspapers, especially The Sunday Times.

Although he did have one novel, The Fortunes of Fenchurch, serialised in the pages of The Sunday Times, the book was never published separately.

[4] Norman Lindsay, who illustrated the reprint volume of Goodge's only poetry collection, considered the poet better than C. J. Dennis.