CHARLOTTE WOOD
  • Books
    • Stone Yard Devotional
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Writer's Room
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Interviews
  • Bio & photo
  • Contact
  • courses & workshops
SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Stone Yard Devotional



​The Booker Prize
The author of Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about finding inspiration in personal upheaval, and the stories that shaped her childhood. Read here. 

Literary Hub
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‘Only that which does not teach ...’ 
Charlotte Wood talks with Eric Olson about Stone Yard Devotional . Read here. 
The Guardian
Charlotte Wood talks with Imogen Dewey about uncertainty, making sadness bearable, bodies, art, and on making work that is ‘self-respecting’.  Read the interview here. 
The Monthly Magazine​
‘Stone Yard Devotional’ author Charlotte Wood decompresses on the west coast of Scotland ahead of the Booker Prize announcement. By Cate Kennedy.
​Read here.
ABC Arts 
Charlotte Wood's latest novel tackles unresolved grief and a mouse plague.
​Read here.


Sydney Morning Herald
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Charlotte Wood discusses the writing process and background to Stone Yard Devotional. Read the SMH Spectrum cover story here.
Good Reading Magazine
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Charlotte Wood discusses the attraction of retreat and solitude versus worldly engagement, and other themes of her new novel. Read the interview here.

The Book Show, ABC RN
Interview with Sarah L'Estrange. Starts at 32.00. Listen here. ​

ABC Radio Melbourne

Charlotte Wood tells Melbourne Saturday Breakfast host Alice Zaslavsky how she crafted her tenth novel. Listen here.  
The Luminous Solution
Interview with Lucy Clark on The Guardian Australia's Book Club

Charlotte Wood and Lucy Clark about creativity, boredom, and ​The Luminous Solution.
Amanda Lohrey & Charlotte Wood: Sydney Writers' Festival

Amanda Lohrey and Charlotte Wood discuss their bodies of work and creative lives at large.
Interview with Jemma Birrell on The Secret Life of Writers

Charlotte Wood and Jemma Birrell about creativity and The Luminous Solution.
Uncomfortable Conversations: What is Creativity?
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Charlotte Wood opens up about Covid, Twitter, and finding your voice amid the cacophony.
The Garrett Podcast: At Home with Charlotte Wood

In this interview with Astrid Edwards, Charlotte discusses creativity, resilience and her latest book.
The First Time: Creativity, resilience and the inner life

Kate Mildenhall and Katherine Collette discuss the core ideas from ​The Luminous Solution.
​ABC Radio Sydney: Interview with Richard Glover

Charlotte Wood talks to Richard Glover about her new book, The Luminous Solution, the creative impulse and how to make the most of it. Listen to the interview here.
The Australian: Interview with Rosemary Neill
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Charlotte Wood discusses nourishing the inner-life, the trouble with being relatable and calls out 'infantilising' literary trends. Read the interview in The Australian here.
ABC Radio National: Interview on The Book Show
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Charlotte Wood, Booker Prize Winner Bernadine Evaristo, and Nobel Laureate for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah discuss their creative lives. Listen here.

The Weekend
Sydney Writers' Festival with Lucinda Holdforth
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Charlotte Wood discusses The Weekend at Sydney Writers' Festival 2020.
Newcastle Writers' Festival with Ailsa Piper

BBC World Book Club

Award-winning Australian novelist Charlotte Wood joins Harriett Gilbert to answer questions from readers around the world about her novel, The Weekend. 

Listen here. 

Sydney Morning Herald: Interview with Amanda Hooton
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Charlotte Wood talks to Amanda Hooton about deconstructing stereotypes about old age.​ Read the full article here.
ABC Radio National: Interview on The Conversation Hour
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Charlotte Wood and author Kathy Lette talk to Virginia Trioli and Jane Clifton about their latest works. Listen to the interview here.
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Australian Financial Review: In conversation with Lauren Sams
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Charlotte Wood talks about the research that informed The Weekend, and what it is that older women want. Read here.
ABC Radio National: Interview on Conversations
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Charlotte Wood talks to Michelle Ransom-Hughes of Radio National about finding new ways to grow old. Listen here.

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ABC Radio National: Interview on The Bookshelf
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Charlotte Wood talks to Kate Evans about the shift in writing processes between The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. Listen here.

The Natural Way of Things
Melbourne Writers' Festival: Winning Women
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At Melbourne Writers Festival 2016, Baileys Prize winner Eimear McBride and Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood discuss their novels, sources of inspiration, how gender informs their writing and the importance of literary prizes.
Adelaide Writers' Week with Kerryn Goldsowrthy​

Charlotte Wood, author of the Stella Prize–winning ‘The Natural Way of Things’, joins Kerryn Goldsworthy at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2016 for a discussion about gender, misogyny and the art of the story.
Sydney Morning Herald: Interview with Susan Wyndham
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Charlotte Wood talks to Susan Wyndham about the ideas that informed her novel, The Natural Way of Things. Read the full piece here.
The Irish Times: Interview with Arminta Wallace
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Charlotte Wood talks about the inspiration for The Natural Way of Things, including Australian politics and a girls' home from the 1970s. Read here.
ABC Radio National: Interview on The Conversation Hour
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Charlotte Wood and author Kathy Lette talk to Virginia Trioli and Jane Clifton about their latest works. Listen to the interview here.

Other interviews
Sydney Opera House: Interview with Edwina Throsby

Join Charlotte Wood as she reflects on this extraordinary moment in time. In a restricted physical world, what place does a rich inner life have when scheduled in between a frenzy of Zoom meetings, hypervigilance, existential dread and online yoga? Can this time of pause provide a unique opportunity for reflection and regeneration? This unmissable special event will cut to the heart of our collective experience of a world gone still.
  • Books
    • Stone Yard Devotional
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Writer's Room
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Interviews
  • Bio & photo
  • Contact
  • courses & workshops