Tracy Farr – WRITER

Introducing Wonderland, the new novel by Tracy Farr, published May 2025 by The Cuba Press.

Here is a story. We can tell it to you. We saw it with our own six eyes. We heard it with our own six shell-like ears. We held it in our own six hands, so we can tell you (oh yes!).
The start of this story is the day the Lady came.
No, the start of this story is the start of us, and Wonderland.

Wonderland was awarded the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize.

Praise for Tracy Farr’s writing

Sarah Quigley

… each time I read it I was struck again by the confidence of the narrative voice, deceptively casual and colloquial, yet displaying an unfaltering authorial control.

– Sarah Quigley on ‘Once Had Me’

winner of Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition

Pip Adam

Farr’s writing is the gingerbread house that makes us forget time, or rather experience time in a different way.
… Farr uses space, time and sensual experience to pull off some impressive extreme craft sport in this book …

– Pip Adam reviewing The Hope Fault

Patrick Allington

Farr’s prose soars … this sparkling debut novel captures the spirit of an accomplished woman as she reflects on the arc of her long life.

– Patrick Allington
reviewing The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

Fiona Kidman

The language is beautiful, the sense of music a powerful onward movement throughout the story. Tracy dares to go where many a writer might retreat …
This is writing that is not afraid.

– Fiona Kidman
launching The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

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Featured news

Wonderland at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival

Wonderland’s first festival outing – just a week after publication – will be at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival. I’ll be GOING COASTAL with Damien Wilkins, Mandy Hager and Mary McCallum.

Robert Lord Writers Cottage Residency in 2025

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a 6-week residency at Robert Lord Writers Cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin in early 2025. Six recipients of residencies at the cottage in early 2025 were announced…

Wonderland wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

I am over the moon that the manuscript for my novel Wonderland has been awarded the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. The judges have said some very beautiful things about the manuscript…

Wonderland shortlisted for NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

My unpublished novel Wonderland has been shortlisted for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024, a prize that celebrates writing with a ‘unique and original vision’.

Tracy Farr is a writer who used to be a scientist. She writes novels and short stories about everyday strangeness and beauty, and aspects of time and memory (and their disruption). Tracy lives in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Praise for Tracy Farr’s writing

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