It’s a long walk up between streets, a Wellington short cut, past cabbage trees and damp, tightly-planted agapanthus. […] Stopping to catch their beery breath, turning, they see the city below them. Closer, lights glow in scattered windows of the university buildings, patterning the sky. In ‘Beer goggles’, Warren and Lola take “a Wellington short … Read more…
About Tracy Farr
Bad Diaries Salon LitCrawl Wellington, 10 November
After our wildly successful winter season back in July (taking in Port Fairy, Melbourne, Geelong and Christchurch), Bad Diaries Salon is back with an early summer cluster of salons, on both sides of the ditch. First up is Bad Diaries Salon #FIVE, as part of Phase Two of LitCrawl 2018. We’re thrilled to partner with … Read more…
Notes from National Writers Forum 2018
Kia ora. Thanks to everyone who took part in and attended the Sunday 23 September session at NZSA National Writers Forum 2018 on The Business of Being a Writer. You can read or download a two-page pdf summary of my presentation here (it’s a 90 kb pdf, nice and small, won’t chew up your data), … Read more…
Captain Panic and The Hope Fault: on being anxious in an uncertain landscape
The Belgravia Books / Aardvark Bureau / Gallic Books team asked me to write something for their blog, on anxiety as a preoccupation of my novel The Hope Fault. I wrote about extreme campervanning, family nicknames, and being anxious (and writing) in an uncertain landscape. Like the Worst Campervan in New Zealand, my novel The … Read more…
The Hope Fault makes its way to the stage
A few months ago the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) acquired the stage rights to my novel The Hope Fault from my Australian publisher Fremantle Press (there was a quiet announcement in Books+Publishing’s rights round-up in early July). I’m thrilled that The Hope Fault is being adapted for the stage by writer, director and … Read more…
Foreword Reviews starred review of The Hope Fault
Ahead of the US release of The Hope Fault in October, Foreword Reviews magazine has given it a starred review in their September/October 2018 issue. Tracy Farr’s carefully crafted literary novel The Hope Fault explores what family means when it’s placed beside the weight of history. […] The Hope Fault is a riveting novel that elegantly … Read more…
Video: Tracy Farr introduces The Hope Fault
In this short video, I introduce The Hope Fault, and talk a little about ideas in the novel, and its origins. You can find this video and other information on the Notes, resources and references page on this website, and in the ‘biblet’ that Aardvark Bureau have put together for The Hope Fault. The biblet contains resources, … Read more…
National Writers Forum, Auckland, 21-23 September
I’ll be taking part in two sessions at the NZSA National Writers Forum 2018, held in Auckland from 21 to 23 September 2018. The forum is a 2.5 day intensive conference where writers talk, learn and share information about the craft of writing, the business of writing and the world of words. Tickets for the forum are … Read more…
The Hope Fault published in UK (and a playlist to celebrate)
The Hope Fault, my second novel, is making its way out into the world. This month marks its publication in UK, by the wise and wonderful team at Aardvark Bureau / Gallic Books. It’ll be published (in the same Aardvark Bureau edition) in the US in October this year, and later this year it will be … Read more…
Ant Sang: Dharma Punk at WORD Christchurch, 1 September
I’ll be talking collaboration, animation and illustration with the mighty Ant Sang at WORD Christchurch 2018. Ant Sang: Dharma Punk Best known for his Dharma Punks comics, the award-winning graphic novel Shaolin Burning and his work on the ground-breaking animated television series, bro’Town, Ant Sang brings to WORD his latest work, a collaboration with author Michael Bennett. Helen … Read more…