February 2024

Teaching writer, Essays in the Space Between, Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat, 23-25 February.

Participating in Ka Mua Ka Muri, Cyclone Gabrielle Tairāwhiti, Anniversary week 2024, Creative Communities Collaboration, Exhibition & Concert, Midway Surf Rescue Community Lounge. All welcome, 6 pm,unday 11 February

***Began as Writer in Residence, International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, 1 Feb 2024-1 Feb 2025.***

November 2023

Participating in An Open Book Conversation on Rebecca Priestley's End Times, Adam Art Gallery, 29 November 4.10 p.m.. All welcome.

December 2021

Co-chair, with Tina Makereti of NonfictioNOW2021, anchored in Wellington and hosted online with over 400 participants and attendees.

November 2021

Running an online workshop as part of Kindness - A Symposium, La Trobe’s Art, Culture and Community Research Cluster. 4 November.

October 2021

Travelling Coven: Travel Memoir with Ingrid Horrocks, as part of VERB festival. 15 October.

August 2021

Off the Page: Conversations between Writers. Ingrid will be in conversation with Tom Doig, author of Hazelwood, at the Palmerston North City Library on Friday 20 August, 6 p.m.. This is part of Massey University’s annual reading series. Chaired by environmental historian, Catherine Knight. (cancelled due to lockdown)

July 2021

Ingrid will be doing a reading at Schrodinger’s Books, 137 Jackson St, Petone. Thursday 29 July, 6 p.m.  

Australian Publication Date of Where We Swim! UQP. 2 July.  

June 2021

In conversation with Lisa Leong on ABC Melbourne, Wednesday 30 June.

On swimming with family in a time of ecological crisis. Conversation with Erica Vowles on ABC National Life Matters. Friday 25 June. AUDIO.

On Caffeine and Aspirin, RadioActive, Saturday 12 June. AUDIO.

Ingrid will be in conversation with Annette Lees, author of Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand, at the Women’s Bookshop in Auckland. Tuesday 1 June 6 p.m.

May 2021

Ngā Uruora and Where We Swim: Books in Conversation. Ingrid will be in conversation with Tim and Turi Park and Rebecca Priestley at Te Awe Library, 29B Brandon Street, Wellington, Tue 11 May, 12:30pm – 1:20pm.

Ingrid will in Devonport from 24 May – 6 June to take up an Established Writer Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre.

Celebrating 20 Years of Creative Writing at Massey University. Ingrid will be at the Palmerston North City Library on Friday 21 May to help MC a panel and gala readings. Great line up of staff and former Masters and PhD student readers, including Thom Conroy, Laura Jean McKay, Lynn Davidson, Gina Cole, and more.

April 2021

Living with the Climate Crisis. Ingrid was at Bruce McKenzie Booksellers in Palmerston North on 16 April at 6 p.m., to take part in a conversation on ‘Living with the Climate Crisis’ with other contributors to the fantastic BWB text edited by Tom Doig.  

AUDIO: Ingrid was interviewed by novelist Pip Adam for her Elements series on her podcast Better of Read. We talk about plot in non-fiction and many other things.

March 2021

Where We Swim reviewed in kete books (republished in Dominion Post), Academy of NZ Literature (republished in the New Zealand Herald), The Listener, featured in Canvas and discussed in The Spinoff Book Report.  

‘A Shift in Vision’, a reflection on climate change writing, published in The Spinoff.  

Aotearoa New Zealand Publication Date of Where We Swim! VUP. 11 March. Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington.

‘On the Amazon’, extract from Where We swim published on Newsroom.

March Featured Writer for US Journal, The Ninth Letter, with extract ‘Days Bay’.

AUDIO: Interviewed by Morrin Rout on Bookenz, Plains FM.

AUDIO: Where We Swim reviewed by Harry Ricketts on RNZ.

November 2020

Participated in a panel discussion, hosted by Tom Doig at Vic Books, for the launch of Living with the Climate Crisis. The blurb quote from the book is from my chapter in the book, ‘It’s Just There: Clicking on the Crisis.’ ‘It is there, in the background. Always. Increasingly urgent. Its ominous hum is the soundtrack to every other story we tell.’