While enrolled for a
Master of Arts at the
University of Melbourne, Craven met Michael Heyward with whom he founded
Scripsi, a literary magazine which was published from 1981 to 1994. His work has also appeared in
Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, the
Times Literary Supplement and
London Review of Books. Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles". In 2004 he was awarded the
Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year. The legal academic
Greg Craven is his younger brother. ==Bibliography==