Music, film and television, visual art, performance and literature can provide rich material for our writing. If you're looking to hone your skills in criticism or think more deeply about how you might incorporate artworks and art-making into your writing, no matter the genre, this three-hour workshop with Anwen Crawford will provide you with the tools and tips you need. We'll consider things like effective description, critical argument and ekphrastic responses. And with the Archibald Prize on display, there will be art right there with us as we write!

Anwen Crawford is a Sydney-based writer, critic and visual artist. Her groundbreaking book-length essay, No Document, (Giramondo 2021) was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her book, Live Through This (2015), on the Hole album of the same name, is published by Bloomsbury in the 331/3 series, and was named by Pitchfork as one of the ‘33 best 331/3s’. Anwen is a graduate of Sydney College of the Arts, where she studied photography, and of the School of the Arts, Columbia University, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts in poetry. She won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism in 2021.