We’re delighted to announce our next Bad Diaries Salon, live, in-person, as always. We’re back in Aotearoa on 5 November for Verb Wellington’s LitCrawl 2022. All details at Verb Wellington. Bad Diaries Salon: RADICAL Returning to LitCrawl for a fifth time, LitCrawl 2022’s Bad Diaries Salon: RADICAL will feature four writers – Kate Mildenhall, Nadine Anne Hura, Jack … Read more…
Wellington LitCrawl
Bad Diaries Salon #SPELL, Wellington LitCrawl, 6 Nov 2021
We’re delighted to announce our next Bad Diaries Salon, live, in-person, as always. We’re back in Aotearoa on 6 November for Verb Wellington’s LitCrawl 2021. All details at Verb Wellington. Bad Diaries Salon: SPELL Returning to LitCrawl for a fourth time – after a fabulous Wellington debut in 2018, CRUSHing it in 2019, and PLAYing in … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon #PLAY, Wellington LitCrawl, 7 Nov 2020
We’re ridiculously excited – and feeling very lucky to be living where we’re living in these strange times – to announce our next Bad Diaries Salon, live, in-person, as always. We’re back in Aotearoa on 7 November for Verb Wellington’s LitCrawl 2020. All details at Verb Wellington. Bad Diaries Salon: PLAY Returning to LitCrawl for … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon #CRUSH, Wellington LitCrawl
We’re ridiculously excited to announce another upcoming Bad Diaries Salon. We’ll be back in Aotearoa on 9 November for Verb Wellington feat. LitCrawl. All details at Verb Wellington. Bad Diaries Salon: Crush Returning to LitCrawl after a fabulous Wellington debut in 2018 (see Tara Black’s live-drawn review), Bad Diaries Salon: CRUSH will feature four writers … Read more…
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…
Short Story Club, on stage and on air
Back in May 2017, Jesse Mulligan kicked off a new weekly feature on his weekday afternoon show on Radio New Zealand: Short Story Club. The idea for Short Story Club first came up, if I’m not mistaken, one afternoon a few weeks earlier when Jesse had frequent bookish guest and LitCrawl Queen Claire Mabey on the show. It works like this: every … Read more…
Short Story Book Club Live at LitCrawl Wellington
I’ve been enjoying heading in to the RNZ studio now and again this year (here, here, here and here) to take part in Short Story Club, a weekly feature on Jesse Mulligan’s afternoon show. One of my stories, ‘Once had me’, has even been the story for discussion (not, obviously, a week I took part in the discussion; … Read more…
AFTERGLOW: Regrets and other events
On their website, the folks at Unity Books in Wellington recap events they hold in-store with blog posts titled AFTERGLOW. So, stealing from Unity (this is, I promise, the only manner in which I steal from Unity), I’d like to look back at the gleaming afterglow of events I took part in while I was … Read more…
‘true stories told live’ at Wellington LitCrawl 2015
Tracy Farr is on the programme for the second annual Wellington LitCrawl, on Saturday 14 November 2015, appearing in the ‘True Stories Told Live’ event supported by New Zealand Book Council. Celebrating independent publishing and collaboration, LitCrawl takes place at a range of downtown Wellington venues, from bookshops to chocolate factories, art galleries to bars, breweries, cinemas and … Read more…