I’m delighted, honoured and relieved to have been awarded a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant in the March/May 2017 funding round, to work on my third novel. In a news post today on the results of the funding round, Creative New Zealand said: Creative New Zealand has awarded 92 grants worth a total $2,032,544 in its latest … Read more…
About Tracy Farr
‘Family Dynamics’ at Auckland Writers Festival
The programme has been launched for Auckland Writers Festival 2017, which runs from 16 to 21 May. I’ll be there — this’ll be my fifth time attending AWF, my second time as a guest of the festival. I’m in one of the Four for Fifty Readings sessions — fifty-minute events in which four writers read from their recent work. Each session is themed; … Read more…
This festive season
May is my birthday month (thus always a time of celebrations and joy to the world, right?). But this May feels extra-festive, cause for much shimmying, shaking, and leg-kicking, on the beach and elsewhere. The Hope Fault acquired by Aardvark Bureau I’ve been quietly dancing on the ceiling (and everywhere else) about this for a while, so I’m delighted to … Read more…
Aardvark Bureau to publish The Hope Fault
I’m thrilled to share the news that UK publisher Aardvark Bureau (Gallic Books) has signed The Hope Fault, my novel ‘about family and fault lines’. Aardvark Bureau also published my first novel, The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, in the UK and US in 2016. The acquisition announcement for The Hope Fault was reported in The Bookseller (11 May … Read more…
ODT reviews The Hope Fault
Jessie Neilson reviewed The Hope Fault for the Otago Daily Times (published online 15 May). The language is poetic but also sparse, and much is told in the gaps between. … a quiet and thoughtful work … — Jessie Neilson, ODT Read the review online: ‘Quiet thoughtful work draws readers in’.
Lucy Walding reviews The Hope Fault for Westerly
Lucy Walding reviewed The Hope Fault for Westerly (online). You can read the full review online at Westerly>From the Editor’s Desk. Westerly is the literary magazine published at the Westerly Centre (formerly the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature) at my alma mater (do Australians have an alma mater?), University of Western Australia, so I’m particularly thrilled that they’ve reviewed my novel. … Read more…
‘The Hope Fault: family and faultlines’ event at National Library, Wellington
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. — Robert Louis Stevenson I’m like RL Stevenson in that respect. I love a map. Maps, diagrams and geological bulletins (one bulletin in particular) caught my imagination and took over the reins while I was writing my novel The … Read more…
The most beautiful home movie ever made
I was sorry to hear, a fortnight ago, of the death of film director Jonathan Demme. The tweets and obits all namechecked the films he’s best known for: The Silence of the Lambs (1991, five Oscars), Philadelphia (1993, two Oscars), and (arguably the best concert film ever) Stop Making Sense (1984). But my thoughts turned first to … Read more…
‘A way with words: Writing as a physical activity’ for NZ Listener
New Zealand Listener has this year been running a regular feature, A way with words, in which they invite New Zealand writers to describe their writing day. I was thrilled to be asked to write a piece, and my contribution was published this week (the issue dated 6 May 2017, on newsstands the week before that) under the … Read more…
‘Shelf Awareness: Tracy Farr’ interview with Maureen Eppen
Perth writer and reviewer Maureen Eppen wrote two great articles (in The West Australian newspaper back in February, and in Good Reading magazine’s April issue) as a result of our long phone interview back in January this year. I was delighted when Maureen asked if I’d take part in her new blog series, Shelf Awareness, in which writers … Read more…