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Bad Diaries Podcast

by Tracy Farr

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S3E3: Caroline Barron

August 18, 2025 · 53 min

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 author of two wonderful books – a…
S3E2: Annabel Smith

July 21, 2025 · 53 min

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 part in three Bad Diaries Salons…
S3E1: Chris Brickell

June 16, 2025 · 50 min

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 for publication. Tracy’s just back from…
Season 3 trailer

June 6, 2025 · 2 min

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 diaries. Find Jenny Ackland on MY MUM'S BAD…
S2E6: Claire Mabey

September 9, 2024 · 1 hr 0 min

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…

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S2E5: Janine Mikosza

August 11, 2024 · 1 hr 15 min

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…
S2E4: Rachael King

July 8, 2024 · 58 min

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…
S2E3: Jock Serong

June 10, 2024 · 47 min

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…
S2E2: Three

May 13, 2024 · 52 min

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…
S2E1: Diarymaking

April 8, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min

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…
S1E9: A Very Diary Xmas

December 17, 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

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…
S1E8: Nadine Anne Hura

November 19, 2023 · 60 min

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…

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About the show

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.