PRIZES
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke has been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, Ockham NZ Book Awards. It was runner-up for the NZ Heritage Book Awards, Fiction.
'Black Milk' has won the Pacific Regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016!
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize 2016
2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Fiction Book Award for Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings.
2014 Landfall Essay Competition shortlisted for 'This Compulsion in Us'
Nga Kupu Ora Te Pakimaero/Fiction Book Award 2011 for Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa.
Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing 2009
Tina's entry, 'Twitch' gained the non-fiction prize. Published in the New Zealand Listener, January 2010.
Pikihuia Award for Best Short Story in English, 2009 for 'skin and bones', featured in Huia Short Stories 8
R.G. Frean Prize for Creative Writing, Massey University, 2007
'Black Milk' has won the Pacific Regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016!
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize 2016
2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Fiction Book Award for Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings.
2014 Landfall Essay Competition shortlisted for 'This Compulsion in Us'
Nga Kupu Ora Te Pakimaero/Fiction Book Award 2011 for Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa.
Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing 2009
Tina's entry, 'Twitch' gained the non-fiction prize. Published in the New Zealand Listener, January 2010.
Pikihuia Award for Best Short Story in English, 2009 for 'skin and bones', featured in Huia Short Stories 8
R.G. Frean Prize for Creative Writing, Massey University, 2007
RESIDENCIES
Randell Cottage Writer in Residence, July - December 2014
Commonwealth Writers Digital Writer in Residence 2014
Weltkulturen Museum Writer in Residence, September/October 2012
Randell Cottage Writer in Residence, July - December 2014
Commonwealth Writers Digital Writer in Residence 2014
Weltkulturen Museum Writer in Residence, September/October 2012