Tina Makereti
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Celebrating the Class of 2025 tonight. Really proud of this lot. It was a blast.
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Celebrating the Class of 2025 tonight. Really proud of this lot. It was a blast.
The Mires at Shakespeare & Co in Paris and Hatchards display at the Cheltenham Lit Festival. I can't be in those places so I am very grateful for friends who are! But golly I wish I could be in those places...
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Mires at Shakespeare & Co in Paris and Hatchards display at the Cheltenham Lit Festival. I can't be in those places so I am very grateful for friends who are! But golly I wish I could be in those places...
Tēnā koe Ōtepoti
Sometimes I get too busy & tired to celebrate what we do but just feeling joyful about good essays (Landfall launch tonight) and conversations about writing (Dunedin Writers Festival).
Plus beaut day. That helps!
Sometimes I get too busy & tired to celebrate what we do but just feeling joyful about good essays (Landfall launch tonight) and conversations about writing (Dunedin Writers Festival).
Plus beaut day. That helps!
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Tēnā koe Ōtepoti
Sometimes I get too busy & tired to celebrate what we do but just feeling joyful about good essays (Landfall launch tonight) and conversations about writing (Dunedin Writers Festival).
Plus beaut day. That helps!
Sometimes I get too busy & tired to celebrate what we do but just feeling joyful about good essays (Landfall launch tonight) and conversations about writing (Dunedin Writers Festival).
Plus beaut day. That helps!
The world is pretty scary right now and our govts are making things much worse, but sometimes you get to talk to smart people in bookshops about things that really matter: creativity, solidarity, being human, connecting, whakapapa! Heartening 🖤💛💚 A+++ strongly recommend
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The world is pretty scary right now and our govts are making things much worse, but sometimes you get to talk to smart people in bookshops about things that really matter: creativity, solidarity, being human, connecting, whakapapa! Heartening 🖤💛💚 A+++ strongly recommend
Book cover fashion always works like this. But I’m guessing these are very very different books… #ThingsAuthorsHate
October 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Book cover fashion always works like this. But I’m guessing these are very very different books… #ThingsAuthorsHate
Thankful for people like Emily, saying what we are all feeling.
So fucking angry.
So fucking angry.
October 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Thankful for people like Emily, saying what we are all feeling.
So fucking angry.
So fucking angry.
I thought it was so magical
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I thought it was so magical
This is The Bone People edition that I read & loved & re-read as a teenager. There are few books that have been as influential to my early thoughts about writing. So it's no small thing to be a finalist for this award. Just a freaking absolute honour. Tēnā koe e te whaea, Keri. Ngā mihi ki te whānau
September 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is The Bone People edition that I read & loved & re-read as a teenager. There are few books that have been as influential to my early thoughts about writing. So it's no small thing to be a finalist for this award. Just a freaking absolute honour. Tēnā koe e te whaea, Keri. Ngā mihi ki te whānau
WORD Ōtautahi conversations I'm looking forward to - please join us: wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/in... & wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/th...
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
WORD Ōtautahi conversations I'm looking forward to - please join us: wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/in... & wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/th...
UK readers! Discounted presale at Waterstones until the end of July. Very excited to share this with you.
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
UK readers! Discounted presale at Waterstones until the end of July. Very excited to share this with you.
Tomorrow! This will be a very good time - free, Te Papa, 12.15pm
July 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Tomorrow! This will be a very good time - free, Te Papa, 12.15pm
Have always loved the story social media tells, not from what people are posting, but the juxtaposition of posts and the story that exists in that thin line between #fourthofJuly
July 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Have always loved the story social media tells, not from what people are posting, but the juxtaposition of posts and the story that exists in that thin line between #fourthofJuly
Unfortunately I e had to cancel this event for health reasons 😢
June 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Unfortunately I e had to cancel this event for health reasons 😢
Launching this Wednesday with guests Tīhema Baker, Tamara Tulitua, Tōrea Scott-Fyfe reading short excerpts of creative non-fiction, and Ingrid Horrocks speechifying. I might read some thing too. It will be fun! Nau mai!
May 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Launching this Wednesday with guests Tīhema Baker, Tamara Tulitua, Tōrea Scott-Fyfe reading short excerpts of creative non-fiction, and Ingrid Horrocks speechifying. I might read some thing too. It will be fun! Nau mai!
Just a bit of light/brilliant reading for a Saturday morning 😍👏🔥 Hana Burgess & Te Kahuratai Painting, ‘Onamata, anamata: A whakapapa perspective of Māori futurisms’ (2020) @hmmpaua.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Just a bit of light/brilliant reading for a Saturday morning 😍👏🔥 Hana Burgess & Te Kahuratai Painting, ‘Onamata, anamata: A whakapapa perspective of Māori futurisms’ (2020) @hmmpaua.bsky.social
Stunning essay from @michelleduff.bsky.social about where the women in her short story collection came from. I knew yet somehow I was still surprised/delighted! thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-04-... @modernletters.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Stunning essay from @michelleduff.bsky.social about where the women in her short story collection came from. I knew yet somehow I was still surprised/delighted! thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-04-... @modernletters.bsky.social
She’s here! And she’s shiny. 15 years of personal essays and a many tentacled wheke. Gratitude to all who live in these pages, all who helped it become a book and all my teachers. Gratitude to all the readers, past and future. In bookstores 8 May preorder now @thwupbooks.bsky.social MAURI ORA
March 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
She’s here! And she’s shiny. 15 years of personal essays and a many tentacled wheke. Gratitude to all who live in these pages, all who helped it become a book and all my teachers. Gratitude to all the readers, past and future. In bookstores 8 May preorder now @thwupbooks.bsky.social MAURI ORA
January 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Book cover joy + summer reading. PhD meetings are the best.
December 13, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Book cover joy + summer reading. PhD meetings are the best.
Think I’m in love. Again. #MoshinHamid
December 13, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Think I’m in love. Again. #MoshinHamid
I visited Te Whare Harikoa at Canterbury Museum yesterday and just bawled. It is the most astonishing, warm, ataahua whare. We had to sit with it for a while and we’ll be back. I think in that moment of aroha, tumanako, whakapono I felt all that is being done to us by this govt even more acutely
December 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I visited Te Whare Harikoa at Canterbury Museum yesterday and just bawled. It is the most astonishing, warm, ataahua whare. We had to sit with it for a while and we’ll be back. I think in that moment of aroha, tumanako, whakapono I felt all that is being done to us by this govt even more acutely
When is it NOT a good time for this quote these days?
December 4, 2024 at 1:52 AM
When is it NOT a good time for this quote these days?