I’m thrilled to be In Conversation at Dymocks Busselton on 21 September, talking about The Hope Fault in the place this book has its beginnings. You won’t find The Hope Fault‘s Cassetown, Little Casse Bay or Point Geologue on a map. Cassetown is a fictional place, made up for the novel. Cassetown isn’t the Busselton suburb of Vasse, but – … Read more…
About Tracy Farr
In conversation at Beaufort Street Books, Perth
I’m delighted to be returning to Beaufort Street Books on 19 September, to discuss The Hope Fault. We launched my first novel, The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, at Beaufort Street Books with an ‘in conversation’ event with the wonderful Geraldine Blake four years ago this month, so I’m thrilled that they’ve asked me back to talk about … Read more…
‘Near and Farr’ interview on RTRFM
On Friday 15 September I joined presenter James Hall on Artbeat, the weekly arts programme on Perth’s RTRFM, to talk about my latest novel, The Hope Fault, and about the writing workshops I’ll be teaching during my writing residency at Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. Listen to the interview (‘Near and Farr: Writer-in-Residence’, 15 September 2017) online.
What’s on in September
I’ve had my head down lately, trying to avoid social media (it was making me anxious) and write a book. I’m still working on both. But I’ll be working on them from Western Australia for the next month or so, as next week I take up a month-long writing residency at Fellowship of Australian Writers … Read more…
Sonia Nair reviews The Hope Fault for ABR
Sonia Nair reviewed The Hope Fault for the Australian Book Review (September 2017, no. 394). The minutiae and messiness of family life as it comes together and unravels time and time again are delicately rendered in Tracy Farr’s second novel, The Hope Fault. The unrelenting rain that forms the lugubrious backdrop for much of the novel conjures up the same … Read more…
Writers on Mondays – Hopeful Animals, Wellington
I’m really excited about being part of the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Writers on Mondays programme this year, which includes – as well as a whole mob of great New Zealand writers – Australian writer Charlotte Wood (24 July – see programme). Writers on Mondays has been running for nearly a decade now, … Read more…
FAWWA CAL Established Writer in Residence 2017
I’m honoured to have been awarded one of four writing residencies for 2017 by the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Western Australia), co-funded by FAWWA and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. FAWWA recently announced the outcome of the 2017 CAL Writer in Residence program (see the FAWWA homepage). I was awarded Established Writer in Residence, and … Read more…
Ticket to Wonderland
Today is officially my first day waking up in Wonderland, as I (nominally) start the ten-month funding period for the Creative New Zealand Arts Grant I was awarded in May ‘towards researching and writing the first draft of a novel, Wonderland’. This is the second Arts Grant I’ve received from Creative New Zealand. The first, … Read more…
Round-up of reviews of The Hope Fault
There have been a few recent reviews of The Hope Fault from Australian writers and bookbloggers that I wanted to note and link to. I’m really grateful for the time and effort and care that each of these reviews represents – in reading the book in the first place, and then to care enough about my book to … Read more…
Auckland love story – AWF17
I had a wild and wonderful time at Auckland Writers Festival 2017 last weekend. This is the fifth year in a row that I’ve headed to Auckland for the festival, my second time (AWF15 was my first) as part of the programme. The festival gets bigger and better each year, continues to break its own … Read more…