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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jun 30

Launching October 9th @Unity Wellington. And in Oz next year.

Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Jun 30

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/

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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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jun 30

Can't tell you how happy I am about this. First book of fiction been a long time coming.

Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎉 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.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jun 27

'It feels like I’m seeing, in real time, one of our most important living writers enter a key state of transition.'
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/26/b...

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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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jun 25

Leaving my little office at Te Herenga Waka today. Thanks for having me this semester @elccprogramme.bsky.social And thanks to my wonderful students.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jun 12

So brilliant pip! So happy for you!

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · May 26

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

Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · May 7

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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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · May 9

newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/a...

Anne Salmond: She won't be right, mate

Having declared war on the environment, the Government is now declaring war on women.

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Reposted by Ingrid Horrocks

Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social · May 7

‘raw humanity gives the collection its heartbeat’—Listener
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.

teherengawakapress.co.nz

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great cover.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Apr 2

I actually assigned them Dillard's Total Eclipse as well, for contrast, but 💯 of them chose to write a response to Doig instead.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 20

This gorgeous book is almost in the world. 'Completely compassionate, utterly necessary.'

Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

Tina Makereti’s essay collection, This Compulsion in Us

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 18

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.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you again. Brilliant. I'm very glad it all checks out! And I might just have my character have the whole day in the big smoke on a Friday, and get the late train home. Amazing.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

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

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thanks David.

Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you. Love the feel this gives of it too.

Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you everyone who has replied to my question. Astonishingly helpful. The (fictional) woman I am writing about, Evie, is a nurse just off a troop ship, & she is on her way home to a farm north of Opaki. Her brother's there to meet her, keen to take her home to meet his wife & baby.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

This is so brilliantly helpful! Thank you! Amazing.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 9

That's a good idea. I've thought of Turnbull library too. I'm just meant to be editing at this stage, but then you realize what's still not completely clear in your mind....

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Mar 8

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?

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Feb 17

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.

Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · Feb 17

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!

Photograph of two office doors next to each other. One says Nikki Hessell and one says Ingrid Horrocks. There are posters and stickers on both doors, one of which is a sticker fir the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league team

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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

The Voyages Women Take: Ingrid Horrocks | Te Papa

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Looking forward to talking with my friend @tinamakereti.bsky.social at Unity Books tomorrow about her extraordinary new novel,The Mires.

Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · Jun 24

Unity Books Lunchtime Author Talk - The Mires by Tina Makereti - Wednesday 10 July.

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Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social · Dec 15

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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