Tina Shaw has published numerous novels, non-fiction books and short stories, as well as fiction for young adults and children. Her fiction often draws on small town locations, and explores the darker side of the New Zealand landscape.

Tina’s work has been published in a multitude of magazines and anthologies. She was finalist in the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards (2010), runner-up in the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition (2003), and received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer’s Residency (2001). She was also the Buddle Finlay Sargeson Fellow (1999), and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waikato (2003). Her novel, The Children’s Pond (2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Crime Writing.

Tina has appeared as panelist, guest speaker and chair at numerous national festivals and literary events and was a judge for the 2012 National Flash Fiction Day competition. She has worked in various roles such as photographer, gardener, book reviewer, adult literacy tutoring, tutor of creative writing, and manuscript assessment.

Her latest work A House Built on Sand (Text Publishing, 2024) was the winner of the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize. Full of suspense and heartbreak, A House Built on Sand is a haunting novel about family secrets, the hazards of memory and ghosts that linger.

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Links

Tina Shaw’s website

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

New Zealand Society of Authors writer page

Random House Books author page

An extract from Ephemera on Newsroom (March, 2020)

Youtube: Tina Shaw reads from Ephemera (March, 2020)

Landfall review of The Children’s Pond by David Herkt (1 May 2015)

Radio New Zealand interview with Justin Gregory, Standing Room Only (20 July, 2014)

NZ Herald article, The Children’s Pond (12 July, 2014)