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 excitin

S2E1: Diarymaking

Apr 8th, 2024 1h 5m

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 su

S1E9: A Very Diary Xmas

Dec 17th, 2023 1h

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 Dia

S1E8: Nadine Anne Hura

Nov 19th, 2023 59m 52s

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

S1E7: Emily McCulloch Childs

Oct 15th, 2023 1h 10m

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 earliest diary (velveteen-covered, horse-emblazoned)

S1E6: Notes

Sep 10th, 2023 58m 10s

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 INXS stage, and reads a lot of Dick Francis.

S1E5: Kate Camp

Aug 13th, 2023 59m 10s

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, and noticing what you notice.Kate and Tracy dig

S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein

Jul 16th, 2023 43m 33s

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 story, research stepping stones, stationery,

S1E3: Other people’s diaries

Jun 11th, 2023 55m 46s

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. Jen coins the term ba-goodness, and we commit t

S1E2: DiArama

May 14th, 2023 41m 9s

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 diaries, personal journals and writing notebook

S1E1: People dig it

May 14th, 2023 42m 51s

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 a call out on Twitter, to running 20 salons,

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Apr 17th, 2023 1m 14s

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 Ao

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