Bad Diaries Podcast is back!

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Wednesday Jun 25, 2025

In S3E1, Tracy Farr talks with Chris Brickell about ferreting in the Hocken Collections, the joy of collaboration, and editing writers’ diaries for publication.

Chris is editor of James Courage Diaries (OUP, 2021), and co-editor, with Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees, of Robert Lord Diaries (OUP, 2023), and in this episode he gives great big bouquets to Otago University Press and to his co-editors, Nonnita and Vanessa – and to Ōtepoti Dunedin City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand as a great place to write, research and create.

Tracy’s just back from a residency at Robert Lord Writers Cottage in Ōtepoti, where she read the wonderful Robert Lord Diaries, and first met up with Chris.

Listen to the full interview here: S3E1: Chris Brickell — Bad Diaries Salon