Charlotte Wood
@charlottewood.bsky.social
2024 Booker shortlisted author ‘Stone Yard Devotional' & other books. Sydney. Here for goodwill & generosity; long smart reads; cooking & gardens; slow, careful attending. https://charlottewood.substack.com
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Here's what some of our earlier participants have said about Elements of Fiction - you can find out more here: charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com/pages/EOFMas...
Here's what some of our earlier participants have said about Elements of Fiction - you can find out more here: charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com/pages/EOFMas...
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Here's what some of our earlier participants have said about Elements of Fiction - you can find out more here: charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com/pages/EOFMas...
Brief re-entry to Bluesky to let you know of our self-directed online writing course, 'Elements of Fiction'. Emily Perkins & I chose 5 topics: Voice, Texture, Tension, Time, and People - most of which we think are under-explored in writing classes. Very affordable & (we modestly think) excellent!
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Brief re-entry to Bluesky to let you know of our self-directed online writing course, 'Elements of Fiction'. Emily Perkins & I chose 5 topics: Voice, Texture, Tension, Time, and People - most of which we think are under-explored in writing classes. Very affordable & (we modestly think) excellent!
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Excellent work - it's going to be GREAT and I will be very bummed that an hour will not be long enough.
Just bought a ticket. Looking forward to your conversation tomorrow.
May 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Excellent work - it's going to be GREAT and I will be very bummed that an hour will not be long enough.
And on Sunday I’m joining Colm Toibin & Michael Williams for more writer chat. Come!
Making a Writer
www.swf.org.au
May 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
And on Sunday I’m joining Colm Toibin & Michael Williams for more writer chat. Come!
Agreed - so horrifyingly relevant right now.
LOVED this book. Such a brilliant exploration of that particularly Soviet style of paranoia and loyalty.
BUT before I scoot - if you're at Sydney Writers' Festival tomorrow don't miss the brilliant Malcolm Knox on his chilling, hilarious novel on totalitarianism & power 'friendships' (sound familiar?) The First Friend - 3pm. I'm in the interviewer chair; can't wait.
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
May 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Agreed - so horrifyingly relevant right now.
BUT before I scoot - if you're at Sydney Writers' Festival tomorrow don't miss the brilliant Malcolm Knox on his chilling, hilarious novel on totalitarianism & power 'friendships' (sound familiar?) The First Friend - 3pm. I'm in the interviewer chair; can't wait.
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
Malcolm Knox: The First Friend
www.swf.org.au
May 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
BUT before I scoot - if you're at Sydney Writers' Festival tomorrow don't miss the brilliant Malcolm Knox on his chilling, hilarious novel on totalitarianism & power 'friendships' (sound familiar?) The First Friend - 3pm. I'm in the interviewer chair; can't wait.
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
From Monday I’m taking a long break from the socials to return to writing, refill the well & for some general despair repair. I'll occasionally share news of my work via my near-defunct (free) Substack if you're inclined to subscribe. charlottewood.substack.com
Subtraction | Charlotte Wood | Substack
An archive of eight essays on the creative process - and from September 2024, occasional announcements about Charlotte's work, news & events. Click to read Subtraction, by Charlotte Wood, a Substack ...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
From Monday I’m taking a long break from the socials to return to writing, refill the well & for some general despair repair. I'll occasionally share news of my work via my near-defunct (free) Substack if you're inclined to subscribe. charlottewood.substack.com
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Progressive people need to stop convincing themselves of this line. I understand it’s tempting, but the Australian absolutely has non-zero influence on political opinion. Every other media outlet is in total fear of it. The Greens and Labor are in fear of it.
Totally bizarre that this happens immediately after an election comprehensively showing that the outrage-churning Australian newspaper has zero influence on political / public opinion. Politicians, grow some integrity. Institutions - libraries and universities, grow some courage: refuse!
A statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on the appalling rescindment of the black&write! fellowship this week.
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...
May 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Progressive people need to stop convincing themselves of this line. I understand it’s tempting, but the Australian absolutely has non-zero influence on political opinion. Every other media outlet is in total fear of it. The Greens and Labor are in fear of it.
Totally bizarre that this happens immediately after an election comprehensively showing that the outrage-churning Australian newspaper has zero influence on political / public opinion. Politicians, grow some integrity. Institutions - libraries and universities, grow some courage: refuse!
A statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on the appalling rescindment of the black&write! fellowship this week.
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...
State Library of Queensland fellowship decision - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA is disturbed by the decision of the State Library of Queensland to rescind author KA Ren Wyld’s 2025 black&write! Fellowship.
www.asauthors.org.au
May 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Totally bizarre that this happens immediately after an election comprehensively showing that the outrage-churning Australian newspaper has zero influence on political / public opinion. Politicians, grow some integrity. Institutions - libraries and universities, grow some courage: refuse!
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This is very useful reporting about the disgraceful decision to rescind Ren Wyld's black&write! fellowship - and it's confirming a pattern of serious consequences for Australian artists - especially First Nations and Arab artists - who speak out on Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet
Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is very useful reporting about the disgraceful decision to rescind Ren Wyld's black&write! fellowship - and it's confirming a pattern of serious consequences for Australian artists - especially First Nations and Arab artists - who speak out on Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I know we've all seen these but I like to re-examine them and remind myself of my own responsibilities (like making smalltalk and eye contact with strangers, something I hate doing but I now see as essential!), over and over.
Twenty Lessons for Fighting Tyranny | Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022 | Carnegie Corporation of New York
Historian and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Timothy Snyder suggests ways to defend democracy with individual actions
www.carnegie.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I know we've all seen these but I like to re-examine them and remind myself of my own responsibilities (like making smalltalk and eye contact with strangers, something I hate doing but I now see as essential!), over and over.
A longish post. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more truthful book – and nor, therefore, a more humane book than Things in Nature Merely Grow. Yiyun Li’s philosophical and psychic reckoning with the loss of both her sons is soaked in what Graham Greene once referred to as ‘the dignity of despair’. >
May 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
A longish post. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more truthful book – and nor, therefore, a more humane book than Things in Nature Merely Grow. Yiyun Li’s philosophical and psychic reckoning with the loss of both her sons is soaked in what Graham Greene once referred to as ‘the dignity of despair’. >
Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint
The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens.
www.newyorker.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.
M Gessen always on point. Terrifying.
Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
May 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
M Gessen always on point. Terrifying.
New paperback now out in the wild! Thank you @ravenbooks.bsky.social
New Cécile Desprairies and @joannechocolat.bsky.social, plus @charlottewood.bsky.social's Booker shortlisted Stone Yard Devotional in smaller paperback
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
New paperback now out in the wild! Thank you @ravenbooks.bsky.social
This is brilliant and very distressing - thank you Irina for articulating so clearly the damage AI is doing to our intellects and inner lives. #resist
I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it
open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
What makes me mad about AI in education
How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is brilliant and very distressing - thank you Irina for articulating so clearly the damage AI is doing to our intellects and inner lives. #resist
The relief. The sheer relief and yes, some unfamiliar national pride- we rejected outright bigotry, fear, greed, suspicion and hatred. So much work to do on climate, Gaza, housing, care for the vulnerable. But the overwhelming rejection of Trumpian wannabes make me teary with relief and pride. 🎉❤️🎉
May 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The relief. The sheer relief and yes, some unfamiliar national pride- we rejected outright bigotry, fear, greed, suspicion and hatred. So much work to do on climate, Gaza, housing, care for the vulnerable. But the overwhelming rejection of Trumpian wannabes make me teary with relief and pride. 🎉❤️🎉
Oh man could there be ANYTHING more exciting than Anne Enright on Helen Garner??? Cannot wait to read this.
Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries
Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman who takes...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Oh man could there be ANYTHING more exciting than Anne Enright on Helen Garner??? Cannot wait to read this.
If you feel inclined, you can vote for Stone Yard Devotional in this Better Reading Top 100 books competition - once votes are counted, seven lucky entrants each win a pack of all 100 books! Voting closes this Sunday, May 4.
Vote Now to Win Better Reading's 2025 Top 100 Books! | Better Reading
Vote for the 2025 Top 100 Books and go in the draw to win all 100 books that make the list! Are you a book lover constantly hunting for your next great read? If so, we’ve got some exciting news for yo...
www.betterreading.com.au
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If you feel inclined, you can vote for Stone Yard Devotional in this Better Reading Top 100 books competition - once votes are counted, seven lucky entrants each win a pack of all 100 books! Voting closes this Sunday, May 4.
This is what we are doing, what we are allowing. And it's getting worse.
Selma Dabbagh | ‘You can read the writing on them’
I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference between...
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April 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is what we are doing, what we are allowing. And it's getting worse.
On reading, my favourite topic.
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
On reading, my favourite topic.
Thanks Daniel for a terrific conversation!
New episode!
@charlottewood.bsky.social joins me on the show to chat about her book Stone Yard Devotional.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...
@charlottewood.bsky.social joins me on the show to chat about her book Stone Yard Devotional.
Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...
April 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks Daniel for a terrific conversation!
So, @mscommunity.bsky.social seems to be forcing me to turn on 'connected experiences' in Outlook for Mac to let it work at all, suddenly. Does anyone else have this problem? I don't want your shitty 'connected experiences' aka privacy-invading AI crap!
April 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So, @mscommunity.bsky.social seems to be forcing me to turn on 'connected experiences' in Outlook for Mac to let it work at all, suddenly. Does anyone else have this problem? I don't want your shitty 'connected experiences' aka privacy-invading AI crap!