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Lucashenko's first work to be published was the novel Steam Pigs (1997), which won the Dobbie Literary Award for debut Australian women writers.^[10] It was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and South Pacific).^[6]

In 1998, she released the novel Killing Darcy, which won the Royal Blind Society's Talking Book Award for young readers (also referred to as the Aurora Prize).^[11][12][a] It was also a finalist for the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel and longlisted for the 1998 James Tiptree Award.^[13][14]

In 1999 her third novel, Hard Yards, was published. It was a finalist for the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Awards^[15] and the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award.^[16] In 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash, written for young adults, was published.^[17]

Lucashenko's fifth novel, Mullumbimby, won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction Book in 2013^[18] and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing in 2014,^[19] as well as being nominated for several other awards.^{[20][21][22][23]} In 2015 it was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.^[24][25]

In 2019 her sixth novel Too Much Lip won the Miles Franklin Award^[26] and Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance.^[27] The novel was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize.^[7][28][29] Judges called it "a fearless, searing and unvarnished portrait of generational trauma cut through with acerbic humour."^[7] Cenozoic Pictures optioned Too Much Lip for a screen adaptation, with Lucashenko as a co-writer and co-creator alongside Cenozoic's Veronica Gleeson.^[30]

Her seventh novel, Edenglassie, was released in 2023 and won the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance for the second time,^[31] as well as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction.^[32] In late 2024, it won the ARA Historical Novel Prize, being commended for capturing "the brutal realities of colonisation while celebrating the resilience of Indigenous cultures."^[33]

Lucashenko is also an essayist, winning the 2013 Long Feature Writing Walkley Award for "Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan". Speaking about this essay, Lucashenko said that she was partly informed by her studies in public policy.^[34]

• —— (1997). Steam Pigs. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702229350.
• —— (1999). Hard Yards. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702230806.
• —— (2002). Uptown Girl. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702233340.
• —— (2013). Mullumbimby. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702239199.
• —— (2018). Too Much Lip. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702259968.
• —— (2023). Edenglassie. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702266126.

• —— (2005). "Who Let the Dogs Out?". Griffith Review.
• —— (2004). "Not Quite White in the Head". Griffith Review (2).
• —— (2005). "Our Bodies". Griffith Review (4).
• —— (2005). "Globalisation, Kimberley Style". Griffith Review (6).
• —— (2007). "How Green Is My Valley?". Griffith Review (12).
• —— (2009). "On the Same Page, Right?". Griffith Review (26).
• —— (2009). "The Silent Majority". Griffith Review (26).
• —— (2013). "Sinking Below Sight". Griffith Review (41).
• —— (2013). "History's Footnote, or, a Wolvi Incident". In Jane Caro (ed.). Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702249907.
• —— (2020). "It's No Accident That Blak Australia Has Survived the Pandemic So Well. Survival Is What We Do". The Guardian.