Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism
Subcategory of Walkley Award
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History

Before 2017, this was the Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing: pre-2017 winners are listed on the other award page.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner André Dao for pieces published in the Saturday PaperMeanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam Le’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’, ‘A Minor Australian Literature’, and ‘Fugue’.

Year: 2023

winner Critic Swallows Book Catriona Menzies-Pike , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2022; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023;

'Picture Trent Dalton sitting on a Brisbane street corner. A typewriter on a folding table in front of him, a hand-made sign stuck to it, upon which is written the words, ‘sentimental writer seeks stories’. Here he is, the most bankable Australian writer of the decade: a storyteller on the street, a man on the tools, a displaced sentimental bloke trying to make sense of twenty-first century life. And this is how he wrote his latest book, a work of non-fiction called Love Stories, the title of which is self-explanatory. Dalton has kept the ecstasy and epiphany dials turned to eleven since the release of Boy Swallows Universe in 2018 – and Australian readers love him.' (Introduction)

Joint win for 'Critic Swallows Book' and 'Fool's Gold' on Louise Willder's Blurb Your Enthusiasm.

Year: 2022

Year: 2021

Year: 2020

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