Bad Diaries Podcast

Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr
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Bad Diaries Podcast

Diving into the world of diaries – the good, the bad and everything in between.Writers Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr are fascinated by diaries: their own and other people’s. They’ve curated more than 20 Bad Diaries Salons across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017, and now have a podcast to keep the discussion going. Join them as they chat with each other and with some of the nearly 80 authors who have read at Bad Diaries Salons.

  1. 09/09/2024

    S2E6: Claire Mabey

    In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with arts festival founder and director, arts events maven, book reviewer, books editor, essayist and novelist Claire Mabey about a life in the arts, the wisdom of teachers, and the transportive power of reading. Claire’s debut novel, The Raven’s Eye Runaways, was published only two months ago, and is already making its mark, flying out across the book world. Hera Lindsay Bird called it “powerfully atmospheric” and “immersive”; Elizabeth Kno...

    1 hr

  2. 08/11/2024

    S2E5: Janine Mikosza

    In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Janine Mikosza about art, writing, her extraordinary memoir Homesickness, and reading Duran Duran fan fiction at Bad Diaries Salon. Jen and Janine talk about how Janine came to writing, and her memoir Homesickness. After majoring in sculpture, Justine completed post-graduate study in photo media, and practised for a decade with solo and group exhibitions. She’s now a research assistant for money work, with writing and art on the side. J...

    1h 15m

  3. 07/08/2024

    S2E4: Rachael King

    In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with award winning writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player Rachael King about reading journals, her love of a good boot, and why she’s no longer writing novels for adults. Rachael’s latest novel, The Grimmelings – “folk horror! for kids!” – is proper scary. And it’s a finalist in the New Zealand Children’s Book Awards, for the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. In this episode of the podcast, we wonder wheth...

    58 min

  4. 06/10/2024

    S2E3: Jock Serong

    In our first guest interview for Season 2 of the podcast, Jenny chats with Jock Serong on a chilly Victorian night. They talk diaries, rituals, the writing life, and what Jock does with his old Blundstones. Jock was one of five writers who read at the second-ever Bad Diaries Salon, back in September 2017 in Melbourne, and in this interview Jenny and Jock look back at that salon. The theme was TRIPS, and Jock read from a travel journal he kept in his 20s; in this episode of the podcast, Jock r...

    47 min

  5. 05/13/2024

    S2E2: Three

    Double, double toil and trouble, join the two of us on the pod to make a throuple – this episode is all about THREE. We’ve chosen THREE as the theme of our second episode of the season not because we can’t count, but because we both have exciting bookish news for our THIRD novels. Tracy’s third (and as-yet unpublished) novel – which is full of triplets and other threes – has been shortlisted for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. And Jenny’s third novel will be out in the world next m...

    52 min

  6. 04/08/2024

    S2E1: Diarymaking

    Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the blank first page (for Tracy, terrifying; for Jen, not) of season 2 of Bad Diaries Podcast. In our first episode of the podcast for 2024, we look back at the summer that’s passed since our xmas episode – a summer of busy-ness, bereavement, and a broken bone. Then we make a schmear on the blank page of season 2, and leap right into it with a chat about diarymaking – whatever diarymaking means. Usually on the pod we focus on the content, on the words...

    1h 6m

  7. 12/17/2023

    S1E9: A Very Diary Xmas

    Pickle your beets, sniff your jars, and wrap the Christmas ham in a teatowel! We’ve reached the toe, the toenail, the heel – no, the sole of the year, and Jenny and Tracy are bringing (or at least name-checking) the A-list celebs for A Very Diary Xmas. In this final episode of Bad Diaries Podcast for 2023, recorded on a thundery (Wellington) and hot (Melbourne) day in December, we bemoan the tyranny of email, and celebrate staying in bed and sensible shoes. We look to other people’s diaries...

    1 hr

  8. 11/19/2023

    S1E8: Nadine Anne Hura

    In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist and zine-maker Nadine Anne Hura about diaries, the narrative arc of a life, writing and drawing, and Dirty Dancing. After reading at Bad Diaries Salon:RADICAL in Wellington in 2022, Nadine wrote about what it was like to prepare for and take part in the salon, in a piece titled ‘The narrative arc of your own life’. In this episode of the podcast, we use that as a jumping off point for a wide-ranging discussion of diaries...

    1 hr
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Diving into the world of diaries – the good, the bad and everything in between.Writers Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr are fascinated by diaries: their own and other people’s. They’ve curated more than 20 Bad Diaries Salons across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017, and now have a podcast to keep the discussion going. Join them as they chat with each other and with some of the nearly 80 authors who have read at Bad Diaries Salons.

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  • Creator
    Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Bad Diaries Podcast
  • Show Website
    Bad Diaries Podcast

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