Bad Diaries Podcast
Tracy Farr
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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 25 Bad Diaries Salons across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017, and in 2023 they started a podcast to keep the discussion going. In Seasons 1 & 2 (2023 & 2024), Jenny and Tracy chat with each other and with some of the nearly 80 authors who have read at Bad Diaries Salons. For Season 3 and beyond, Tracy's taken over the reins.
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S3E3 S3E3: Caroline Barron
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with writer Caroline Barron about diaries, speaking your truth with kindness, and the power and particular melancholy of nostalgia.Caroline is the…
S3E2 S3E2: Annabel Smith
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with writer Annabel Smith about throwing her diary across the room, hearting Michael J. Fox, and singing SexyBack at karaoke. Annabel has taken…
S3E1 S3E1: Chris Brickell
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with writer and academic Chris Brickell about ferreting in the Hocken research collections, the joy of collaboration, and editing writers’ diaries…
S3 Season 3 trailer
Bad Diaries Podcast is ba-a-ack for Season 3!Tracy Farr is flying Bad Diaries Podcast solo, poised to land a new season of interviews with writers, talking about our own and other people’s…
S2E6 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…
S2E5 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…
S2E4 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…
S2E3 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…
S2E2 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…
S2E1 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…
S1E9 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…
S1E8 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…
S1E7 S1E7: Emily McCulloch Childs
In this interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with curator, writer and art historian Emily McCulloch Childs. Emily loves diaries, life writing, and writers’ journals; her own…
S1E6 S1E6: Notes
A mixed tape of an episode that takes in The Saints and New Order at the Seaview Ballroom in 1982 Melbourne, writes a song about a closed cemetery in rainy Paris in 1989, nicks a guitar pick from the…
S1E5 S1E5: Kate Camp
In our second guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist, reviewer and five-time Bad Diaries Salon reader Kate Camp about diaries, the slipperiness of memory,…
S1E4 S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein
In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.On a May morning in Melbourne, Sarah and Jenny sink into Succession, narrative structure and shaping a…
S1E3 S1E3: Other people’s diaries
In this third episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about the origin of BAD in Bad Diaries, and how, in our diaries, we can allow the badness – and the goodness – of our unedited lives to show.…
S1E2 S1E2: DiArama
In this second episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we take another dive into the Bad Diaries universe.We ask each other, Were you always a writer? We talk about our own history and practice of keeping…
S1E1 S1E1: People dig it
In this first episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about Bad Diaries Salon, the live literary series that we co-produce and co-curate – from the concept’s beginnings in 2017, when Jenny first put…
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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…
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Bad Diaries Podcast has published 20 episodes since April 2023, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Bad Diaries Podcast is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 55m.
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