Tina Shaw: 2025
Autumn Residency

Tina, our sixth writer-in-residence for the year,  is a novelist, short story writer and editor. Tina has received many awards for her work, including the CNZ Berlin Writers Residency, the University of Waikato Writer-In-Residence and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in Auckland. She won the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award with Ursa which was published in 2019 by Walker Books Australia. Ursa received a Storylines Notable Book Award and was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. As editor, her 7th edition of the Bateman NZ Writer’s Handbook was published in 2023. Her novel manuscript A House Built on Sand won the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize and was published in 2024 by Text Publishing. Tina works as a book reviewer, mentor, manuscript assessor, publisher, and is editor of the NZSA quarterly publication NZ Author. She is based outside of Taupō where she lives with her partner and two pointers.