CHARLOTTE WOOD  

Author of non-fiction collection of writings on the meaning of cooking - Love & Hunger - and novels Animal People, The Children, The Submerged Cathedral, Pieces of a Girl; editor of Brothers & Sisters.

LATEST NEWS

• WORDS ON THE STAGE: The art of chairing & hosting literary events - a short & useful guide
• SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL: Charlotte will  appear in three sessions at the festival:

              Restoration and Renewal of Australian Writing
              Fiona McFarlane: The Night Guest
              Fear and Loathing in a First Draft

• A MIND OF ONE'S OWN: Latest podcast is up!
• THE WRITER'S ROOM INTERVIEWS: A Varuna interview with Charlotte about her magazine for writers, by Diana Jenkins
• I FOR ISOBEL BY AMY WITTING: Text Classics. Charlotte has written the introduction to this re-release of a classic Australian novel. An edited extract of the introduction appeared in The Australian.
• WRITERS' TOOLKIT:  A new series of tools for emerging writers, with more coming throughout the year - podcasts, digital publications, workshops, retreats and more.

• FIVE THINGS I LEARNED from starting a literary magazine - an article for The Wheeler Centre.

• ISLAND Magazine: Island talks to Charlotte about her work & literary magazine - online here.

• 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Animal People has won the People's Choice award after being shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.

LATEST BOOKS

LOVE & HUNGER: Thoughts on the gift of food
"A love of food oozes from Charlotte's every pore in this wonderful book. Her recipes and ideas come with great practical advice but even better, her warmth and emotional honesty reflect the generosity of food and continually made me smile (sometimes with nudging tears). So many tidbits shared, so many 'aha' moments and things I needed to know!"                          
- Maggie Beer

ANIMAL PEOPLE
"Charlotte Wood is one of our finest and most chameleonic writers ... This is a beautiful, resounding tale of an ordinary man flailing. It's superb storytelling."
- The Australian

"A compelling and ultimately moving novel that cements Wood's place as one of the most intelligent and compassionate novelists in Australia." 
- The Age

"Arch, poignant and funny ... consistently inventive and tightly crafted ... A few pages out from the end, I groaned. No, it can't be over yet. When I finished, I wanted to start it all over again."
- The Sydney Morning Herald

"An author at the top of her game ... Wood is a consummate observer of the human condition"
- Australian Book Review

"The best of literature does more than entertain, it reveals something to us about ourselves, and this certainly happened for me in reading this book ... Do your higher self a favour and read this book."
- The Book Nerd Club

"I felt I had been dismantled, cleaned and reassembled by the novel. The novel did not change me. It reintroduced me to the important parts that make up who I am ... Wood is writing literature of the kind which hopes to hit upon universal truths using only the simplest and most delicate tools... [she] stalks the greatest of subjects, the human condition. How we live, how we love and how we communicate. And she does so with prose that is spare, considered, beautiful and graceful." 
- John Purcell, Booktopia