We’re thrilled to be bringing Bad Diaries Salon back to Christchurch on Saturday 31 August at Space Academy. Part of WORD Christchurch’s Shifting Points of View season, this Bad Diaries Salon will be all about #SHIFT. Browse the WORD Christchurch Shifting Points of View programme for details of this event and more. We hope to see you at Bad Diaries … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon
Bad Diaries Salon LitCrawl Wellington
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…
Bad Diaries Salon WORD Christchurch
We’re thrilled to be bringing Bad Diaries Salon to New Zealand, and to WORD Christchurch 2018, which runs this year from 29 August to 2 September. The theme for WORD Christchurch this year is ADVENTUROUS, and Bad Diaries Salon will be bringing the #RISK to Friday night at the festival, following on from the gala Starry, Starry Night event. … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon, Geelong
Bad Diaries Salon was established mid-2017 with a call out from Jenny Ackland on Twitter – were there any writers who still had their old, bad teenage diaries, and would they be prepared to read them live? The response was overwhelming. Result: four salons were held in 2017, and Bad Diaries Salon is back with a Winter 2018 series … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon, Melbourne
Bad Diaries Salon was established mid-2017 with a call out from Jenny Ackland on Twitter – were there any writers who still had their old, bad teenage diaries, and would they be prepared to read them live? The response was overwhelming. Result: four salons were held in 2017, and Bad Diaries Salon is back with a Winter 2018 series of … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon, Port Fairy
Bad Diaries Salon was established mid-2017 with a call out from Jenny Ackland on Twitter – were there any writers who still had their old, bad teenage diaries, and would they be prepared to read them live? The response was overwhelming. Result: four salons were held in 2017, and Bad Diaries Salon is back with a Winter 2018 series kicking … Read more…
The Bad Diaries Salon Volume 3, Perth
Melbourne literary phenomenon The Bad Diaries Salon (BDS) is coming to Perth this month, in its first outing beyond Melbourne. The Bad Diaries Salon Volume 3 Perth: Regrets features Brooke Davis, Laurie Steed, Annabel Smith, Jenny Ackland and me reading from our early, unedited works, on the theme of REGRET. The BDS is a salon series where writers read from … Read more…
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…