Charlotte Wood on writing craft and Australian fiction

Charlotte Wood is an award winning Australian author of 10 books including the 2016 Stella Prize winner The Natural Way of Things and the 2020 international bestseller The Weekend. Her latest novel Stone Yard Devotional is about a woman who abandons her life, her marriage, her career and retreats to a religious community in a remote area of Australia, where she grew up. Charlotte and I talk about the themes that come up in her work, how her craft has changed over the course of her career, why it's so important to her to not over explain to the reader and of course, her favourite Australian fiction writers.

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Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

The Weekend - Charlotte Wood

The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood

The Writers Room - Charlotte Wood

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

The Golden Age - Joan London

The Good Parents - Joan London

The Conversion - Amanda Lohrey

Charlotte Wood's Substack - charlottewood.substack.com

charlottewoodauthor.com.au

Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com