Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a post-Festival residency for Charlotte Wood.

Charlotte is the Australian author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional was described by the Guardian as ‘a quiet novel of immense power’ and has been praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy Fowler, Hannah Kent, and Paula Hawkins among others.

Her previous books include The Luminous Solution, a book of essays on the creative process; the international bestseller, The Weekend; and The Natural Way of Things which won a number of prizes including The Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among other publications.

She has produced a podcast of interviews with artists, The Writer’s Room with Charlotte Wood, and in 2024 launched a monthly newsletter on the creative process titled Subtraction.