Ingrid Horrocks
@ingridhorrocks.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
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I just signed contracts for my first book of fiction! This has been a VERY long time coming. ALL HER LIVES: Nine Stories, out with @thwupbooks in NZ in 2025, and UQP in Oz in 2026. Huge thanks for all the support and to @modernletters CNZ & Michael King Writers Centre for backing me & this book.
Launching October 9th @Unity Wellington. And in Oz next year.
The Australian edition is coming March 2026 from University of Queensland Press.
Cover by Sarah Wilkins.
For more info, or to pre-order the NZ edition, visit our website.
teherengawakapress.co.nz/all-her-lives/
Cover by Sarah Wilkins.
For more info, or to pre-order the NZ edition, visit our website.
teherengawakapress.co.nz/all-her-lives/
All Her Lives
Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Launching October 9th @Unity Wellington. And in Oz next year.
Can't tell you how happy I am about this. First book of fiction been a long time coming.
🎉 Exciting news to start the week - All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks is coming October 9, 2025. All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. It is the first collection of short fiction by @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social.
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Can't tell you how happy I am about this. First book of fiction been a long time coming.
'It feels like I’m seeing, in real time, one of our most important living writers enter a key state of transition.'
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Book of the Week: An Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman walk into a pā
'There were many times I wished for my father’s death,' Tina Makereti confesses in a stunning new book of essays
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June 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
'It feels like I’m seeing, in real time, one of our most important living writers enter a key state of transition.'
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Leaving my little office at Te Herenga Waka today. Thanks for having me this semester @elccprogramme.bsky.social And thanks to my wonderful students.
June 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Leaving my little office at Te Herenga Waka today. Thanks for having me this semester @elccprogramme.bsky.social And thanks to my wonderful students.
Honoured & humbled to be launching my friend, Tina Makereti's, incredible book of nonfiction this week. Join Tina and others to celebrate on Wednesday.
@tinamakereti.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social
@tinamakereti.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Join us to celebrate This Compulsion In Us by Tina Makereti! The book will be launched by Ingrid Horrocks.
📖 Wednesday 28 May, 6pm
📖 Unity Books Wellington
📖 All welcome!
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📖 Wednesday 28 May, 6pm
📖 Unity Books Wellington
📖 All welcome!
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May 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Honoured & humbled to be launching my friend, Tina Makereti's, incredible book of nonfiction this week. Join Tina and others to celebrate on Wednesday.
@tinamakereti.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social
@tinamakereti.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social
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‘raw humanity gives the collection its heartbeat’—Listener
Happy publication day to THIS COMPULSION IN US @tinamakereti.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...
Happy publication day to THIS COMPULSION IN US @tinamakereti.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...
This Compulsion In Us
Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
‘raw humanity gives the collection its heartbeat’—Listener
Happy publication day to THIS COMPULSION IN US @tinamakereti.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...
Happy publication day to THIS COMPULSION IN US @tinamakereti.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...
Amazing class today on @tomdoig.bsky.social pieces on the Hazelwood coal mine disaster and 'Preppers & the End of Everything'. Can't think of anyone who writes better about this stuff. 'Outside, life went on, until it didn’t.' meanjin.com.au/essays/ten-y...
Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster
Ten years on from the Hazelwood fire, what is there to say? That it was horrific, and horrifically unjust—then eventually things went back to normal? Or that people just ‘got over it’, which amount…
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April 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Amazing class today on @tomdoig.bsky.social pieces on the Hazelwood coal mine disaster and 'Preppers & the End of Everything'. Can't think of anyone who writes better about this stuff. 'Outside, life went on, until it didn’t.' meanjin.com.au/essays/ten-y...
This gorgeous book is almost in the world. 'Completely compassionate, utterly necessary.'
She’s here! And she’s shiny. 15 years of personal essays and a many tentacled wheke. Gratitude to all who live in these pages, all who helped it become a book and all my teachers. Gratitude to all the readers, past and future. In bookstores 8 May preorder now @thwupbooks.bsky.social MAURI ORA
March 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This gorgeous book is almost in the world. 'Completely compassionate, utterly necessary.'
I just signed contracts for my first book of fiction! This has been a VERY long time coming. ALL HER LIVES: Nine Stories, out with @thwupbooks in NZ in 2025, and UQP in Oz in 2026. Huge thanks for all the support and to @modernletters CNZ & Michael King Writers Centre for backing me & this book.
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I just signed contracts for my first book of fiction! This has been a VERY long time coming. ALL HER LIVES: Nine Stories, out with @thwupbooks in NZ in 2025, and UQP in Oz in 2026. Huge thanks for all the support and to @modernletters CNZ & Michael King Writers Centre for backing me & this book.
Since bluesky has been so helpful, here's another one: I've got a character heading from Masterton to Wellington just after the Remutaka tunnel opened in 1955. Is it realistic for her to get there for a day of shopping? @southernrata.bsky.social @drdrehistorian.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Since bluesky has been so helpful, here's another one: I've got a character heading from Masterton to Wellington just after the Remutaka tunnel opened in 1955. Is it realistic for her to get there for a day of shopping? @southernrata.bsky.social @drdrehistorian.bsky.social
I'm aware there are more vital things happening in the world, but today I am trying to work out how long it would take someone to travel by train from Wellington to Opaki station north of Masterton in 1919. Long shot: but any train enthusiasts that might be able to point me in the right direction?
March 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm aware there are more vital things happening in the world, but today I am trying to work out how long it would take someone to travel by train from Wellington to Opaki station north of Masterton in 1919. Long shot: but any train enthusiasts that might be able to point me in the right direction?
I haven't been in this new office yet, but this is my new space for the next few months! Teaching a course on 'Writing Ecologies' for the THW English department. Very excited about being in the classroom again next week. It's been awhile. Thanks for welcoming me.
I rather like my corner of the 9th floor, side-by-side with @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social
PS The compulsory Bulldogs fandom was mandated by @dougalmcneill.bsky.social, not me!
PS The compulsory Bulldogs fandom was mandated by @dougalmcneill.bsky.social, not me!
February 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I haven't been in this new office yet, but this is my new space for the next few months! Teaching a course on 'Writing Ecologies' for the THW English department. Very excited about being in the classroom again next week. It's been awhile. Thanks for welcoming me.
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Talking with Kate Duignan tomorrow as part of @modernletters.bsky.social wonderful Writers on Mondays series. Good topic: Women’s Lives
Talking with Kate Duignan tomorrow as part of @modernletters.bsky.social wonderful Writers on Mondays series. Good topic: Women’s Lives
The Voyages Women Take: Ingrid Horrocks | Te Papa
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July 14, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Talking with Kate Duignan tomorrow as part of @modernletters.bsky.social wonderful Writers on Mondays series. Good topic: Women’s Lives
Talking with Kate Duignan tomorrow as part of @modernletters.bsky.social wonderful Writers on Mondays series. Good topic: Women’s Lives
Looking forward to talking with my friend @tinamakereti.bsky.social at Unity Books tomorrow about her extraordinary new novel,The Mires.
July 9, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Looking forward to talking with my friend @tinamakereti.bsky.social at Unity Books tomorrow about her extraordinary new novel,The Mires.
Earlybird registrations for Kapiti Writers Retreat close next week. I went as a participant last year, and am going as teaching writer this year. Highly recommend. writerspractice.nz/the-kapiti-w...
December 15, 2023 at 3:11 AM
Earlybird registrations for Kapiti Writers Retreat close next week. I went as a participant last year, and am going as teaching writer this year. Highly recommend. writerspractice.nz/the-kapiti-w...
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November 22, 2023 at 1:18 AM
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Come join us to talk about End Times
Wellington: I'm in conversation with the wonderful @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social and Su Ballard about my new book End Times on 29 November, at Adam Art Gallery. Free event and all welcome! @thwupbooks.bsky.social
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November 21, 2023 at 9:27 PM
Come join us to talk about End Times
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I’m thrilled to announce my new novel The Mires will be published in July 2024 in Aotearoa and Australia. Beyond excited to start this new adventure with Sydney-based Ultimo Press! Mauri ora 🔥🙏🏽
November 20, 2023 at 8:27 PM
I’m thrilled to announce my new novel The Mires will be published in July 2024 in Aotearoa and Australia. Beyond excited to start this new adventure with Sydney-based Ultimo Press! Mauri ora 🔥🙏🏽
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Launch tonight at Unity Books Wellington!
November 16, 2023 at 3:16 AM
Launch tonight at Unity Books Wellington!
This is actually true. Can’t quite believe it. Thank you. @modernletters.bsky.social I can’t wait.
Ingrid Horrocks named as 2024 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence | Inter...
Acclaimed memoirist, essayist, poet, and fiction writer Ingrid Horrocks has been appointed Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Cr...
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November 2, 2023 at 12:30 AM
This is actually true. Can’t quite believe it. Thank you. @modernletters.bsky.social I can’t wait.
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"When we laugh we relax a bit, we allow some oxygen and creativity into our minds, & that’s the way we will combat some of the very big problems we face as a species—not thru getting anxious, but through getting creative" @cursesmcd.bsky.social interview deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2023/10/q-wi...
October 30, 2023 at 8:41 AM
"When we laugh we relax a bit, we allow some oxygen and creativity into our minds, & that’s the way we will combat some of the very big problems we face as a species—not thru getting anxious, but through getting creative" @cursesmcd.bsky.social interview deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2023/10/q-wi...
I officially love @rkpriestley.bsky.social book.
October 30, 2023 at 1:37 AM
I officially love @rkpriestley.bsky.social book.
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E hoa mā, if you’re not already planning to, pls pls come along & stand in solidarity today! We can’t support self-determination in 1 place & not other; justice does not mean “just us”! Your voices are so needed friends! 🙏🏽
Ki te kotahi te kākaho, ka whati; ki te kāpuia, e kore e whati
✊🏽❤️🖤🤍💚✊🏽
Ki te kotahi te kākaho, ka whati; ki te kāpuia, e kore e whati
✊🏽❤️🖤🤍💚✊🏽
October 27, 2023 at 6:52 PM
E hoa mā, if you’re not already planning to, pls pls come along & stand in solidarity today! We can’t support self-determination in 1 place & not other; justice does not mean “just us”! Your voices are so needed friends! 🙏🏽
Ki te kotahi te kākaho, ka whati; ki te kāpuia, e kore e whati
✊🏽❤️🖤🤍💚✊🏽
Ki te kotahi te kākaho, ka whati; ki te kāpuia, e kore e whati
✊🏽❤️🖤🤍💚✊🏽
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TOMORROW NIGHT - hear @thwupbooks.bsky.social publisher Fergus Barrowman deliver the Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture, followed by Vincent O'Sullivan's announcement of the winners of the 2023 Sargeson Prize - 5.45pm in person or on the livestream, register here.
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2023 Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture & Sargeson Prize
20th annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture
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October 27, 2023 at 2:59 AM
TOMORROW NIGHT - hear @thwupbooks.bsky.social publisher Fergus Barrowman deliver the Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture, followed by Vincent O'Sullivan's announcement of the winners of the 2023 Sargeson Prize - 5.45pm in person or on the livestream, register here.
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