Stone Yard Devotional with author Charlotte Wood (longlisted for Booker)

Charlotte Wood, whose novel Stoneyard Devotional has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize, will discuss her moving and meditative book at an event hosted on Friday 11 October, hosted at St Paschal’s campus of the University of Divinity by the Benedictine Union of Australia and New Zealand. All welcome!

Stoneyard Devotional traces the experience of a woman who doesn’t believe in God as she finds herself settling into a monastic community imagined on the Monaro Plain of New South Wales. Acclaimed by the Guardian as a ‘quiet novel of intense power’, the Booker judges say the work ‘thrilled and chilled’ them.  Come along to join a conversation that will surely touch on prayer, forgiveness, redemption, memory and community as a panel of readers engages with this acclaimed author.

The event with Charlotte Woods opens a conference program that will also run on Saturday 12 October on Communicating Monasticism. It marks the 100^th issue of Tjurunga the journal of the Benedictine Union established in 1971. Fr Michael Casey, monk of Tarrawarra Abbey and the founding editor of Tjurunga, will give a key note address on Saturday on Christian formation.  Michael is well-known internationally as one of the most insightful authors and speakers on monastic spirituality. (Born in Ringwood, he is also a doctoral graduate of the University, in its earlier form as the Melbourne College of Divinity.)  Presentations on the theme of ‘Communicating Monasticism’ will include Gavin Brown, Sarah Glover, John McDowell, Katharine Massam, Jill O’Brien, Carmel Posa, Bernard Reddin and Claire Renkin.

For more details and to register: https://events.humanitix.com/communicating-monasticism.