The Luminous Solution

Thu 5 May 2022

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 ten books — seven novels and three non-fiction works. She has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, among others, and her features and essays have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Saturday Paper and others. She lives in Sydney.

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.