Tracy Farr – WRITER

Wonderland is the latest novel by Tracy Farr, published in 2025 by The Cuba Press.

Here is a story. We can tell it to you. We saw it with our own six eyes. We heard it with our own six shell-like ears. We held it in our own six hands, so we can tell you (oh yes!).
The start of this story is the day the Lady came.
No, the start of this story is the start of us, and Wonderland.

Wonderland was awarded the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize, named as one of NZ Listener‘s 100 best Books of 2025, and is longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Praise for Tracy Farr’s writing

Fiona Kidman – Wonderland

Passionate, beautifully constructed, sorrowful and yet immensely hopeful.

– Fiona Kidman on Wonderland

Sarah Quigley – short fic

… each time I read it I was struck again by the confidence of the narrative voice, deceptively casual and colloquial, yet displaying an unfaltering authorial control.

– Sarah Quigley on ‘Once Had Me’

winner of Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition

Pip Adam – HOPE

Farr’s writing is the gingerbread house that makes us forget time, or rather experience time in a different way.
… Farr uses space, time and sensual experience to pull off some impressive extreme craft sport in this book …

– Pip Adam reviewing The Hope Fault

Fiona Kidman – LENA

The language is beautiful, the sense of music a powerful onward movement throughout the story. Tracy dares to go where many a writer might retreat …
This is writing that is not afraid.

– Fiona Kidman
launching The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

Patrick Allington – LENA

Farr’s prose soars … this sparkling debut novel captures the spirit of an accomplished woman as she reflects on the arc of her long life.

– Patrick Allington
reviewing The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

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Wonderland longlisted for Ockhams

Wonderland longlisted for Ockhams

Wonderland has been longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026.

Wonderland on ‘Best of 2025’ lists

Wonderland on ‘Best of 2025’ lists

It’s great to see Wonderland popping up on end-of-year ‘Best of 2025’ lists.

The Cuba Press comes to town

All welcome to an evening of bookish fun when The Cuba Press comes to Havelock North, Thursday 12 February 2026.

Reviews for Wonderland

Read what writers and reviewers have been saying about Wonderland

Wonderland wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

The manuscript for Wonderland was awarded the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize, and the judges said wonderful things about the manuscript …

Tracy Farr is a writer who used to be a scientist. She writes novels and short stories about everyday strangeness and beauty, and aspects of time and memory (and their disruption). Tracy lives in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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