The Luminous Solution
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library
Main Festival
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Acclaimed writer Charlotte Wood has been observing the creative impulse and processes in herself and through discussions with other writers for many years. Her latest book, The Luminous Solution, is an insightful, inspiring and brilliant book examining the work of art and writing. If you appreciated Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, you will love The Luminous Solution.
Charlotte Wood in conversation with Sandra Hogan
#Artists
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. 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.
Sandra Hogan
Sandra Hogan is a journalist and writer. Her book, With My Little Eye, was published in February 2021. It tells the true story of a Brisbane family in which both parents were ASIO spies and the children also helped with the spying business. Work has begun on a mini-series of the book. Sandra began writing With My Little Eye at a creative writing retreat run by Charlotte Wood. Charlotte provided Sandra with invaluable insights into the writing process and some of those insights, and others, are discussed in The Luminous Solution.
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