About this 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 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.
Episodes
- S3E3: Caroline Barron · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 3In 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…
- S3E2: Annabel Smith · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 2In 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…
- S3E1: Chris Brickell · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 1In 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…
- Season 3 trailer · 2 min · Season 3Bad 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…
- S2E6: Claire Mabey · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 6In 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…
- S2E5: Janine Mikosza · 1 h 15 min · Season 2 Episode 5In 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…
- S2E4: Rachael King · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 4In 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…
- S2E3: Jock Serong · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 3In 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…
- S2E2: Three · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 2Double, 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…
- S2E1: Diarymaking · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 1Willkommen, 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…
- S1E9: A Very Diary Xmas · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 9Pickle 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…
- S1E8: Nadine Anne Hura · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 8In 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…
- S1E7: Emily McCulloch Childs · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 7In 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’…
- S1E6: Notes · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 6A 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…
- S1E5: Kate Camp · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 5In 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…
- S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 4In 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…
- S1E3: Other people’s diaries · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 3In 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…
- S1E2: DiArama · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 2In 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…
- S1E1: People dig it · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 1In 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…
- EPISODE 0 · 1 min · Season 1Diving 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…
