Off the Page: Ingrid Horrocks and Josie Shapiro

Join us for an unmissable evening with award winning writers Ingrid Horrocks and Josie Shapiro in conversation with Thom Conroy.

Ingrid Horrocks’ fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, won the 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her other books include the memoir, Where We Swim (2021), a history of women wanderers, and two collections of poetry.

Josie Shapiro is the author of two novels. Her debut, Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts, won the inaugural Allen & Unwin Fiction prize. Her second novel, Good Things Come and Go, was published in 2025 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Zealand Listener.

Everyone welcome.

When

Friday, October 16, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Where

LOCATION

Central Library 4 The Square, Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui 4410

Programme

Part of the Writers and Readers programme.

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