Body of Work: Charlotte Wood
PRESENTED BY FED SQUARE
Booker Prize-shortlisted Australian author Charlotte Wood will be joined by author Jaclyn Crupi, to reflect on her creative risk-taking across her 30-year writing career.
Award-winning author Charlotte Wood is the author of seven works of fiction and three non-fiction books, and has been celebrated for her stylistic originality, psychological depth and embodied prose.
From her debut Pieces of a Girl to her Booker Prize-shortlisted Stone Yard Devotional, her works of fiction have reflected on ideas of agency, control and chaos, climate catastrophe, female rage and grief.
This in-conversation event will be a close study of the creative risks Charlotte Wood has taken with each new project over her nearly 30-year writing career – from her Stella Prize-winning dystopian novel The Natural Way of Things to her works of non-fiction such as Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food.
This event is presented as part of Body of Work – a free, in-conversation series with some of Australia’s greatest living literary icons, presented by Fed Square and curated by author and bookseller Jaclyn Crupi.
Tickets for Body of Work: Charlotte Wood available from mid-August. Due to the expected popularity of this event, tickets will be limited to two per registration. Sign up to receive updates when registrations open or new events in this series are announced.
One of Australia’s most original and provocative writers, Sydney-based Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her features and essays have been published around the world, including in The Guardian, the New York Times, and the Sydney Morning Herald. Her novel The Natural Way of Things was awarded the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her latest novel, Stone Yard Devotional, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and named a top-10 book of 2025 by both The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, event moderator, awards judge and bookseller. She has worked in publishing since 2002. Jaclyn has written numerous books for both children and adults. Her latest book, Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and an Australian Book Industry Award. Her most recent children’s book, The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet, won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Jaclyn’s work has appeared in The Guardian, SBS Voices, At Home, The Canberra Times, PIP Magazine and Frankie, as well as the anthology Family published by Text Publishing.