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This “hello” space is for news and updates. My plan to clear two months for writing bore quite the fruit: my fourth full-length play, which is getting a weeklong workshop next week with Dave Register and his Portland Theater Festival. I’m SO nervous, but also thrilled.

This month’s poem to memorize is “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver. As soon as I get that by heart, I’ll have eight poems committed to memory that I didn’t have before. Next year I’ll make the same resolution: memorize a poem a month. At the end of the year I’ll list them all.

Also, How to Read a Book is still thriving in hardcover, two and a half years after publication. So gratifying, and thank you to all the American book clubs who put the book on the international radar. I’ll be posting my 2027 schedule soon; my big plan to lie low has been thwarted many times over, because I’m just the girl who can’t say no.

NOVELS

A bookstore with large front windows displaying books, a sign above that reads 'How to Read a Book,' and a quote from a New York Times review. The store has a blue exterior and yellow accents, with two white chairs and a small table outside. A cat is near the door, and a bird is sitting on the window ledge.
Book cover of "The One-in-a-Million Boy" by Monica Wood featuring a young boy climbing a ladder against a leafless tree, with a background of a greenish sky and a small moon.
Book cover of 'Ernie's Ark' by Monica Wood, featuring an illustration of a factory with smoke stacks, green hills, trees, and a river underneath.
Book cover of 'Any Bitter Thing' by Monica Wood featuring a scenic view of a small town surrounded by autumn trees with colorful fall foliage and mountains in the background.
Book cover of "My Only Story" by Monica Wood featuring a painted illustration of a porch with pink flowers, stairs, and a beauty salon window.
Cover of the novel 'Secret Language' by Monica Wood, featuring a black-and-white photo of two young girls standing outdoors, one holding a doll.

PLAYS & MEMOIR

A collage of torn paper with colorful red, yellow, black, and beige fragments. Overlaid text reads 'Three Plays by Monica Wood, Papermaker, The Half-Light Saint Dad' in black and cursive fonts.

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Book cover of "When We Were the Kennedys" by Monica Wood, featuring five women and children sitting outdoors in vintage clothing and hats against a bright sky.

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BOOKS FOR WRITERS

Three books with different covers, two of which are titled "The Pocket Muse" with subtitles about writing ideas and inspiration, and the third titled "Description" by Monica Wood, featuring an image of pens.
Three books with the titles 'The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration,' 'The Pocket Muse Ideas & Inspirations for Writing,' and 'Description' by Monica Wood, with covers displaying images of a road, a person holding a sign, and pens, respectively.
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