National Flash Fiction Day 2026

Ingrid Horrocks’s books include the short story collection All Her Lives (2025), recently placed on the short list for the 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, the memoir Where We Swim (2021), a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility (2017), and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall and the Guardian. In 2024 she was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare CNZ Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington and in 2025 she was awarded the Michael King Writers Centre Australian Residency at Varuna. Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her partner and twin daughters.

Louise Wallace is the author of the novel Ash (longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the Ockham Book Awards 2024), published in New Zealand by Te Herenga Waka University Press, in Australia by Allen & Unwin and forthcoming this year with Mariner Books in the US and Hutchinson Heinemann in the UK. She has also published four previous collections of poems, including This Is a Story About Your Mother. She is a founding editor of Starling, an online journal showcasing the work of young writers from Aotearoa | New Zealand, and was the editor of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022. Louise holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Otago and is a former Robert Burns fellow.