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
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...
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’. >
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. 🎉❤️🎉
Pics from my editor this morn. The generous review was online weeks ago but I’m amazed & delighted at this treatment, space & beautiful (gulp 😳🐭) illustrations from @nytbookreview.bsky.social !! Thank you so much Lauren Christensen, NYTBR editors and incredible illustrator Wesley Allsbrook.
March 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Pics from my editor this morn. The generous review was online weeks ago but I’m amazed & delighted at this treatment, space & beautiful (gulp 😳🐭) illustrations from @nytbookreview.bsky.social !! Thank you so much Lauren Christensen, NYTBR editors and incredible illustrator Wesley Allsbrook.
I loved hearing from Peter Godwin about his work and how he brings it into being yesterday. Could have listened for hours more. Sydney, his show at SH Ervin will be a highlight of your art year (yes even though it’s only February) - don’t miss it. Finishes March 2!
February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I loved hearing from Peter Godwin about his work and how he brings it into being yesterday. Could have listened for hours more. Sydney, his show at SH Ervin will be a highlight of your art year (yes even though it’s only February) - don’t miss it. Finishes March 2!
Colour matching my reading now
February 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Colour matching my reading now
Screwed up my posting -last post recommends this! You Are Here, David Nicholls.
February 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Screwed up my posting -last post recommends this! You Are Here, David Nicholls.
Sydneysiders, this is special
- I’ll be in conversation with the great Peter Godwin, painter, about his works on show at SH Ervin gallery, 3pm Sun Feb 16. I revere this painter. Come hear him! Free w gallery entry. Contact SH Ervin for more details.
- I’ll be in conversation with the great Peter Godwin, painter, about his works on show at SH Ervin gallery, 3pm Sun Feb 16. I revere this painter. Come hear him! Free w gallery entry. Contact SH Ervin for more details.
February 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Sydneysiders, this is special
- I’ll be in conversation with the great Peter Godwin, painter, about his works on show at SH Ervin gallery, 3pm Sun Feb 16. I revere this painter. Come hear him! Free w gallery entry. Contact SH Ervin for more details.
- I’ll be in conversation with the great Peter Godwin, painter, about his works on show at SH Ervin gallery, 3pm Sun Feb 16. I revere this painter. Come hear him! Free w gallery entry. Contact SH Ervin for more details.
Thanks to Jaipur Literature Festival for an astonishing week of intellectual, visual, culinary & psychological feasting. Amazing trip.
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Thanks to Jaipur Literature Festival for an astonishing week of intellectual, visual, culinary & psychological feasting. Amazing trip.
A joy to meet govt reps who genuinely love the arts, as I did in Delhi last night. Oz High Commissioner Philip Green & his wife Prof Susan Marks hosted us at their residence. Their clear passion for current literature & visual arts was heart lifting. Glorious Christian Thompson & Tamara Dean works.
January 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
A joy to meet govt reps who genuinely love the arts, as I did in Delhi last night. Oz High Commissioner Philip Green & his wife Prof Susan Marks hosted us at their residence. Their clear passion for current literature & visual arts was heart lifting. Glorious Christian Thompson & Tamara Dean works.
Exciting arrival of US edition - out Feb 11!
January 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Exciting arrival of US edition - out Feb 11!
Fish curry taken from a Rick Stein Indian tv special years ago, scribbled notes while watching so who knows - but it’s our standard fish curry. Tomatoes, heaps onion & curry leaves, tamarind etc. No basmati rice in the house so scrounged some v ancient wild rice from pantry & added some cashews.
January 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Fish curry taken from a Rick Stein Indian tv special years ago, scribbled notes while watching so who knows - but it’s our standard fish curry. Tomatoes, heaps onion & curry leaves, tamarind etc. No basmati rice in the house so scrounged some v ancient wild rice from pantry & added some cashews.
January 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’m winding up this huge year with a long summer break. I’ll be offline as much as possible till late January, and very slow in responding to messages & emails. Wishing you peace, love, quiet and rest. And lots of reading. Here’s my Christmas (lime) tree. ❤️💚❤️
December 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I’m winding up this huge year with a long summer break. I’ll be offline as much as possible till late January, and very slow in responding to messages & emails. Wishing you peace, love, quiet and rest. And lots of reading. Here’s my Christmas (lime) tree. ❤️💚❤️
Reader, I wept.
December 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Reader, I wept.
Husband made these Adam Liaw fish pakoras. Great, with a beetroot/carrot/radicchio slaw with a sesame dressing.
December 14, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Husband made these Adam Liaw fish pakoras. Great, with a beetroot/carrot/radicchio slaw with a sesame dressing.
Remembering and missing our adored friend and beautiful writer Georgia Blain, who died eight years ago today. Can’t believe that. Feels so recent. We love you Georgia, wherever you are.
December 9, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Remembering and missing our adored friend and beautiful writer Georgia Blain, who died eight years ago today. Can’t believe that. Feels so recent. We love you Georgia, wherever you are.
Sunday is garden day
December 8, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Sunday is garden day
So sorry everyone but we have to pause enrolments on ELEMENTS OF FICTION – we’ve been absolutely inundated with interest in & sign-ups to this course, which has blown both of our minds!
December 6, 2024 at 4:30 AM
So sorry everyone but we have to pause enrolments on ELEMENTS OF FICTION – we’ve been absolutely inundated with interest in & sign-ups to this course, which has blown both of our minds!
Now just completely obsessed with Fiona McFarlane‘s Highway 13 – I am so late to read it but she is staggeringly good. The prose – talk about voice! This could be my new favourite book of the year and I’m only one story in.
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Now just completely obsessed with Fiona McFarlane‘s Highway 13 – I am so late to read it but she is staggeringly good. The prose – talk about voice! This could be my new favourite book of the year and I’m only one story in.
This morning I spent a beautiful hour listening to @appletwigli.bsky.social on Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, which I read alongside her & many others in A Public Space book club. So fun! I adored revisiting my very, VERY tattered old copy of this beloved book. Yiyun is a genius reader. THANKYOU!
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 AM
This morning I spent a beautiful hour listening to @appletwigli.bsky.social on Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, which I read alongside her & many others in A Public Space book club. So fun! I adored revisiting my very, VERY tattered old copy of this beloved book. Yiyun is a genius reader. THANKYOU!
