diff --git a/benchmark/streams/writable-manywrites.js b/benchmark/streams/writable-manywrites.js
index 6fcb07e849d615..0ed38d0357a438 100644
--- a/benchmark/streams/writable-manywrites.js
+++ b/benchmark/streams/writable-manywrites.js
@@ -4,14 +4,19 @@ const common = require('../common');
 const Writable = require('stream').Writable;
 
 const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
-  n: [2e6]
+  n: [2e6],
+  sync: ['yes', 'no']
 });
 
-function main({ n }) {
+function main({ n, sync }) {
   const b = Buffer.allocUnsafe(1024);
   const s = new Writable();
+  sync = sync === 'yes';
   s._write = function(chunk, encoding, cb) {
-    cb();
+    if (sync)
+      cb();
+    else
+      process.nextTick(cb);
   };
 
   bench.start();
diff --git a/lib/_stream_writable.js b/lib/_stream_writable.js
index be8332055002d4..05c1a6193e67a6 100644
--- a/lib/_stream_writable.js
+++ b/lib/_stream_writable.js
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ function WritableState(options, stream, isDuplex) {
   // The amount that is being written when _write is called.
   this.writelen = 0;
 
+  // Storage for data passed to the afterWrite() callback in case of
+  // synchronous _write() completion.
+  this.afterWriteTickInfo = null;
+
   this.bufferedRequest = null;
   this.lastBufferedRequest = null;
 
@@ -498,22 +502,42 @@ function onwrite(stream, er) {
     }
 
     if (sync) {
-      process.nextTick(afterWrite, stream, state, cb);
+      // It is a common case that the callback passed to .write() is always
+      // the same. In that case, we do not schedule a new nextTick(), but rather
+      // just increase a counter, to improve performance and avoid memory
+      // allocations.
+      if (state.afterWriteTickInfo !== null &&
+          state.afterWriteTickInfo.cb === cb) {
+        state.afterWriteTickInfo.count++;
+      } else {
+        state.afterWriteTickInfo = { count: 1, cb, stream, state };
+        process.nextTick(afterWriteTick, state.afterWriteTickInfo);
+      }
     } else {
-      afterWrite(stream, state, cb);
+      afterWrite(stream, state, 1, cb);
     }
   }
 }
 
-function afterWrite(stream, state, cb) {
+function afterWriteTick({ stream, state, count, cb }) {
+  return afterWrite(stream, state, count, cb);
+}
+
+function afterWrite(stream, state, count, cb) {
+  state.afterWriteTickInfo = null;
+
   const needDrain = !state.ending && !stream.destroyed && state.length === 0 &&
     state.needDrain;
   if (needDrain) {
     state.needDrain = false;
     stream.emit('drain');
   }
-  state.pendingcb--;
-  cb();
+
+  while (count-- > 0) {
+    state.pendingcb--;
+    cb();
+  }
+
   finishMaybe(stream, state);
 }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-writable-samecb-singletick.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-writable-samecb-singletick.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e7dfa648797821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-writable-samecb-singletick.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const { Console } = require('console');
+const { Writable } = require('stream');
+const async_hooks = require('async_hooks');
+
+// Make sure that repeated calls to console.log(), and by extension
+// stream.write() for the underlying stream, allocate exactly 1 tick object.
+// At the time of writing, that is enough to ensure a flat memory profile
+// from repeated console.log() calls, rather than having callbacks pile up
+// over time, assuming that data can be written synchronously.
+// Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/18013
+// Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/18367
+
+const checkTickCreated = common.mustCall();
+
+async_hooks.createHook({
+  init(id, type, triggerId, resoure) {
+    if (type === 'TickObject') checkTickCreated();
+  }
+}).enable();
+
+const console = new Console(new Writable({
+  write: common.mustCall((chunk, encoding, cb) => {
+    cb();
+  }, 100)
+}));
+
+for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++)
+  console.log(i);