In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with arts events maven, books editor, writer Claire Mabey about a life in the arts, the wisdom of teachers, the transportive power of reading – and The Raven's Eye Runaways, Claire's immersive debut novel.

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Janine Mikosza about art, writing, her extraordinary memoir Homesickness, post-it notes, and reading Duran Duran fan fiction at Bad Diaries Salon.

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with 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.

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.

Double, double toil and trouble, join the two of us on the pod to make a throuple – this episode is all about THREE, because we both have exciting news of our third novels.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the blank first page of season 2 of Bad Diaries Podcast. In our first episode of the podcast for 2024, we chat about diarymaking — aesthetics and logistics, preferences and flexibility, the creative and the mundane.

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 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.

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) dates to when she was 10.

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.

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.

In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.

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; and Jen coins the term ba-goodness.

In this second episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we take another dive into the Bad Diaries universe. Tracy reads from her 9/11 journal, and Jen reads from DiArama, her 1980s diary.

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, and we introduce BAD DIARIES PODCAST, and our hopes and plans for the podcast.

Welcome to Bad Diaries Podcast. Here’s our Season 1 trailer.