Anwen Crawford

Anwen Crawford is the author of No Document (Giramondo, 2021), shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and Live Through This (Bloomsbury, 2015). She also makes zines and art, and in 2021 she won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. She lives in Sydney.

Works By Anwen Crawford

Beautiful Smudge
In this essay, Anwen Crawford reflects on being a latecomer to the sport that united her family: cricket. From scorebooks and dictionaries to journalism to on-field protest messages, Crawford tallies the many forms that cricket writing can take.
30 Apr. 2024
Peripheral Vision
In her review of Hayley Singer’s collection of essays, Anwen Crawford anatomises the abattoir – from its paradoxes of visibility to its banalisation of life and death – as a subject for literature.
24 Sept. 2023
All the Young Grooves
The record store clerk, like the pop critic, was once a messenger: have you heard this? Have you heard this? You have to hear this.
12 Feb. 2023
24 Hour Theory People: Part 3
‘Fruitful misunderstandings’ strikes me as a good way to think about the blogosphere — and, actually, as a good way of describing what interesting criticism does, in so far as you never really ‘understand’ a work you’re responding to in any transp...
5 Mar. 2020
24 Hour Theory People: Part 2
For me, the easiest way to demonstrate the uniqueness of the blog medium is to think about why the k-punk book instantly and overwhelmingly prompts that question of its migration across media, a question which would not even arise for an anthology...
27 Feb. 2020
24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere
There’s been a lot written already about the work of the late English writer, blogger and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, who died in 2017. Last year, a substantial anthology of Mark’s blog writing — together with interviews, reviews, and an unfini...
20 Feb. 2020
Howl Sky
See me. See this. Wojnarowicz calls you to witness, which is why his work feels so intimate even when he’s really addressing everyone at once. These days I see the edge of mortality. And because he did, he’s one of a handful of artists of whom I h...
13 Nov. 2018
Precinct
'At the south-west extremity of Westfield Penrith, between the shopping precinct and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, there is a narrow strip of outdoor space. It is a simulation of a public square.'
11 Nov. 2016

Works Featuring Anwen Crawford

A History of Shapes
Anwen Crawford’s remarkable new work of non-fiction, No Document, is many kinds of document, but one of the ways it can be read is as an attempt to discover a form of writing fit for ephemeral art practices – especially as those practices relate t...
10 May. 2021

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Anwen Crawford

Works By Anwen Crawford

Beautiful Smudge

Peripheral Vision

All the Young Grooves

24 Hour Theory People: Part 3

24 Hour Theory People: Part 2

24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere

Howl Sky

Precinct

Works Featuring Anwen Crawford

A History of Shapes