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The Writer's Room: Conversations about Writing

Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work to quite intricate--and intimate--revelations about the ways in which they work. Charlotte's subjects are frank about the failures and successes, the struggles and triumphs of the writing life, and extremely generous in their revelations. A must-read for writers and readers. Interview subjects are Tegan Bennett Daylight, James Bradley, Lloyd Jones, Malcolm Knox, Margo Lanagan, Amanda Lohrey, Joan London, Wayne Macauley, Emily Perkins, Kim Scott, Craig Sherborne, and Christos Tsiolkas.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2017
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.00in - 1.20in - 1.30lb
  • EAN: 9781760293345
  • Categories: Composition & Creative Writing - General

About the Author

Charlotte Wood is the author of five novels and a book of non-fiction. Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and Indie Fiction Book of the Year prizes, has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Two of her novels, The Children and The Natural Way of Things, have been optioned for feature films. She is the former editor of The Writer's Room Interviews magazine.

Praise for this book

"For writers, an indispensable resource; for readers, a pure pleasure." --Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic, The Australian
"A rich and sympathetic resource which goes straight to the heart of creativity." --Joan London, author, The Golden Age, Gilgamesh
"These interviews have consistently provided me with the the best descriptions of a writer's craft I could hope to find. Invaluable." --Sophie Cunningham, author, Bird and Geography
"Lets its readers eavesdrop on the best of conversations - erudite, interesting, always inspirational." --Ashley Hay, author, The Railwayman's Wife