Wonderland shortlisted for NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

The 'Cuba'

I’m truly thrilled that my unpublished novel, Wonderland, has been shortlisted for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024, a prize that celebrates writing with a ‘unique and original vision’.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

BAD DIARIES SALON RADICAL Wellington 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

Bad Diaries Salon SPELL Wellington 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

Bad Diaries Salon CRUSH Wellington 2019

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…