Upcoming salons
Keep an eye on our socials (we’re @baddiariessalon on Insta and facebook) for news.
Can’t wait? Check out our past salons, below.
Or listen to Bad Diaries Podcast for a hit of diaries ba-goodness between live salons.
BAD DIARIES SALON #SILVER
Bad Diaries Salon is back for our lucky 7th annual edition as part of VERB Festival’s LitCrawl in Wellington.
BAD DIARIES SALON #EX
Bad Diaries Salon is back for the 6th year in a row, as part of VERB Festival’s LitCrawl in Wellington.
BAD DIARIES SALON #NOTES
Bringing the BAD to the Bauhaus for one night, one not-to-be-repeated show, six writers reading from their diaries on the salon theme, NOTES.
BAD DIARIES SALON #DREAM
Bringing the BAD to Bendigo! Join us at Bendigo Writers Festival 2023 for the first Australian Bad Diaries Salon since February 2020.
BAD DIARIES SALON #RADICAL
Bad Diaries Salon is back, in our one and only live salon for 2022, as part of VERB Festival’s LitCrawl in Wellington.
BAD DIARIES SALON #SPELL
We’re delighted to announce our next Bad Diaries Salon, live, in-person, as always. We’re back in Aotearoa on 6 November for Verb Wellington’s LitCrawl 2021.
BAD DIARIES SALON #PLAY
We’re ridiculously excited – and feeling very lucky to be living where we’re living in these strange times – to announce our next Bad Diaries Salon, live, in-person, as always. We’re back in Aotearoa on 7 November for Verb Wellington’s LitCrawl 2020.
BAD DIARIES SALON #CREEP
We’re thrilled to announce our first Bad Diaries Salon for 2020. We’ll be in Perth on 20 February for Perth’s first ever Lit Crawl, part of the mighty Perth Festival‘s 2020 Festival of Literature & Ideas.
BAD DIARIES SALON #CRUSH
We’re ridiculously excited to announce another upcoming Bad Diaries Salon. We’ll be back in Aotearoa on 9 November 2019 for Verb Wellington feat. LitCrawl.
BAD DIARIES SALON #BURN
Returning to Perth for the first time in 2 years, this Bad Diaries Salon will be all about the #BURN, with a truly exciting lineup of readers. We hope you can join us at The Bird on Tuesday 15 October 2019 for Bad Diaries Salon #BURN.
BAD DIARIES SALON #SHIFT
We’re thrilled to be bringing Bad Diaries Salon back to Christchurch in 2019. Part of WORD Christchurch’s Shifting Points of View season, this Bad Diaries Salon will be all about #SHIFT.
BAD DIARIES SALON #FIVE
We’re thrilled to partner with LitCrawl Wellington for this event, and to be bringing another Bad Diaries Salon to Aotearoa, after our first New Zealand salon at WORD Christchurch in August 2018.
BAD DIARIES SALON #RISK
It’s our first New Zealand salon! We’re thrilled to be bringing Bad Diaries Salon to Aotearoa, and to WORD Christchurch 2018.
BAD DIARIES SALON #FIRST
We’re bringing Bad Diaries Salon to Geelong with a brilliant lineup of six authors reading from their early, unedited works.
BAD DIARIES SALON #INFLUENCED
Join us at Buck Mulligan’s Whiskey Bar and Bookshop for a salon with a theme inspired by the venue: INFLUENCED.
BAD DIARIES SALON #DELETED
We’re heading to Port Fairy for the first in our series of three WINTER WARMER salons — a salon with the theme DELETED.
BAD DIARIES SALON #REGRETS
Melbourne literary phenomenon Bad Diaries Salon heads to Perth, in its first outing beyond Melbourne.
Past salons
Kate Camp reads at Bad Diaries Salon as part of LitCrawl Wellington 2019, with Victor Rodger, Renee Liang and Christos Tsiolkas (Photo: Tracy Farr)