Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Allyson ShawPlace writing from Orkney, Scotland. Sometimes there are witches.
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SERPENT MAW & MIRROR CASE
There’s a standing stone on a southernmost island in the Orkney archipelago that looks old, but it isn’t. The stone is located on the east side of South Ronaldsay, in an area called Grimness, down by St Peter’s Kirk. Though I’ve lived in Or...
GATHERING SUN 🌖
things to come on the waning moon
The unending light of Orkney summer is slowly being pared away—midnight is deep blue instead of sunset pinks. It is hot and cold at turns, a proper summer in Orkney and my third making a home here. Numerou...
FOLLY & WRECKAGE 🌊
a solstice round up
In This Missive:
IN CONVERSATION WITH GHOSTS
Or fragmentation and redemption an the waxing moon
I work by assembling fragments, attempting wholeness in the face of traumatic shattering—both personal and historical.
ALL MY DEMONS ON DISPLAY 👹
or writing in the age of social media marketing
- A doctor rows a boat through the treacherous Pentland Firth in the Orkney archipelago. He drops a basket filled with his failed experiment—the body of a woman—into the sea.
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Royal Society of Literature shortlisted Author of Ashes & Stones. "Lyrical magic." --The New York Times. My debut novel Widdershins will be crowdsourced on Kickstarter in 2026.
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