Lucas Grainger-Brown is an Australian author of fiction and creative non-fiction. He received the Calibre Prize and The Writing Prize for his essays and has been shortlisted for the Horne Prize, the Fair Australia Prize and the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition.

Lucas’s work-in-progress novel Ursong was longlisted for Hachette’s 2026 Richell Prize.

Lucas’s fiction, non-fiction, reviews and commentary have appeared in Meanjin, Policy Studies, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Australian Book Review, Griffith Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Overland, Going Down Swinging, Arena Magazine, Pursuit, Antithesis, Election Watch, New Matilda, The Canberra Times, Brisbane Times, Voiceworks, Right Now, Above Water, Farrago, FIRST, Writer’s Bloc, Young Diplomat, Independent Australia, Offset and Burley.

Contact

You can reach Lucas via: lucas.graingerbrown(at)gmail(dot)com.