Gutter, Mslexia, and Landfall journals, and online at Stadtsprachen, and Crevice. A member of the Berlin Poetry Collective, in 2024, she was selected for the Seamus Heaney Summer School for emerging poets. Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand, she is based in Hamburg, Germany, where she founded the Writers who Write meet-up in the Freiraum project space at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe. Tessa has read her work on stages from Berlin to Belfast.

Dream Houses

Her first poetry collection Dream Houses was published in 2019 by Kelsay Books. It is available to order from the publisher (US), Amazon (EU). If you live in Ōtepoti, why not get it out of the Dunedin Public Library.

Short Fiction & Poetry

Tessa’s short fiction and poetry have been anthologised in Phoenix Journal of New Writing (Sydney University Press) and The Duty of Disobedience (Anthology of the European Poetry Biennale), short-listed for the London Short Story festival, and the Mslexia Poetry Prize, long-listed for the Berlin Writers Prize, performed by actors at Books Without Covers and read (by her!) at the Fiction Canteen reading series in Berlin. Her poem/graphic Daphne in Te Aro was featured in the Thistle House Lightbox, curated by Wellington poet Sarah Scott.

Writers Who Write

Tessa founded this writing meet-up in 2020. The group is open to writers of any genre and language, meets twice monthly in the Freiraum project space at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe for focused writing sprints, ⏳ writerly companionship, and to banish that innere Schweinehund 🐷🐶

Design

An art director and print designer in the culture and non-profit space of many years standing, you can download her portfolio here (15 mb⚡️).

Connect

If you’d like to connect you can find Tessa on instagram @tessa_sinclair_scott or, take a look at what she’s been up to lately on Linktree🌴