The 1997 Burns Fellow will start the University of Otago Wallace Residency at the Pah Homestead, in Auckland, on April 1.
Richardson said she would use the three-month residency to research and draft a manuscript and interview Aucklanders who experienced the controversial tour.
The residency is a collaboration between the University of Otago and arts patron Sir James Wallace.
Sir James said he hoped it would support and promote contemporary New Zealand art and artists.
"[The residency is] a great way in which to extend such challenging opportunities and broadening experiences to arts practitioners such as writers, film-makers and composers," he said.
The residency, which is open to University of Otago Fellows, provides accommodation, a car and financial assistance with projects, while the university continues to pay the Fellow's stipend.
The new three-month residency began late last year, with the first recipient 2010 and 2011 Mozart Fellow Christopher Adams. The second was 2005 and 2006 Burns Fellow, Catherine Chidgey.
Richardson's new novel, Traces of Red, will be published in October.
