I’m really thrilled to have been awarded a 6-week residency at Robert Lord Writers Cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin in early 2025. Five recipients of residencies at the cottage in early 2025 were recently announced. From the media release: The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that six writers will take up residencies … Read more…
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Wonderland wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
I am over the moon – and a little overwhelmed, though in the best of ways – that the manuscript for my novel Wonderland has been awarded the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. The judges have said some very beautiful things about the manuscript – you can read more in the announcement here. … Read more…
Wonderland shortlisted for NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
I’m truly thrilled that my unpublished novel, Wonderland, has been shortlisted for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024, a prize that celebrates writing with a ‘unique and original vision’. The shortlist of four writers – Abigail von Ahsen, Jade Hallamore, Jacqueline Owens and me – was judged by Cassie Hart and Anne Kennedy, … Read more…
Bad Diaries Salon #RADICAL, Wellington LitCrawl, 5 Nov 2022
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…
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 #CREEP, Lit Crawl Perth, 20 Feb 2020
We’re thrilled to announce our first Bad Diaries Salon for 2020. We’ll be in Perth on 20 February for Perth’s first ever Lit Crawl, part of the mighty Perth Festival‘s 2020 Festival of Literature & Ideas. We’re truly grateful to the remarkable Sisonke Msimang, curator of the Literature & Ideas programme, for inviting Bad Diaries … 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…
Dundee University Review of the Arts reviews The Hope Fault
Victoria Lothian has written a beautiful, considered review of The Hope Fault for Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA). Farr’s elegant and descriptive language captures the ordinary and intricate moments of daily family communications […] The Hope Fault leaves us with a quiet sense of hope that not every fault line will cause tremors … Read more…