Short stories
- 1926 – "Wedding Day", Fire!!
- 1927 – "Tokens", Ebony & Topaz
Non-fiction
- 1926–28 — "The Ebony Flute" (column), Opportunity
- 1924 — "The Future of the Negro in Art", Howard University Record (December)
- 1925 — "Negros: Inherent Craftsmen", Howard University Record (February)
- 1928 — "The American Negro Paints", Southern Workman (January)
- 1934 — "I go to Camp", Opportunity (August)
- 1934 — "Never the Twain Must Meet", Opportunity (March)
- 1935 — "Rounding the Century: Story of the Colored Orphan Asylum & Association for the Benefit of Colored Children in New York City", Crisis (June)
- 1937 — "The Harlem Artists Guild", Art Front (May)
Poetry
- 1923 — "Heritage", Opportunity (December)
- 1923 — "Nocturne", Crisis (November)
- 1924 — "To Usward", Crisis (May) and Opportunity (May)
- 1924 — "Wind", Opportunity (November)
- 1925 — "On a Birthday", Opportunity (September)
- 1925 — "Pugation", Opportunity (February)
- 1926 — "Song", Palms (October)
- 1926 — "Street Lamps in Early Spring", Opportunity (May)
- 1926 — "Lines Written At the Grave of Alexandre Dumas", Opportunity (July)
- 1926 — "Moon Tonight", Gypsy (October)
- 1926 — "Hatred", Opportunity (June)
- 1926 — "Dear Things", Palms (October)
- 1926 — "Dirge", Palms (October)
Her work is featured in numerous anthologies of the period, including the following:
- Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1924)
- Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925)
- William Braithwaite's Yearbook of American Poetry (1927)
Selected writings
- 2018 – Bennett, Gwendolyn. Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance: Gwendolyn Bennett's Selected Writings. Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
