Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Allyson ShawPlace writing from Orkney, Scotland. Sometimes there are witches.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH GHOSTS
Paula Rego, Angel, 1998 (Detail)
I work by assembling fragments, attempting wholeness in the face of traumatic shattering—both personal and historical.
In the 1990s I was in an MFA program in an English department where the postmodern ph...
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.
FEED ME A PEAR 🍐
& I will write you a sonnet. (GenAI in the news on the waning moon)
Whenever I see an invitation to Meta AI on Instagram, I immediately think of US Congressional Representative Cortez holding up a jar of opaque brown tap water—a result of...
BLUE MOON STAGE DIVING
Or what crowdfunding taught me 🌝
Yesterday 180 Kickstarter backers made a dream come true. Widdershins was successfully crowdfunded. My initial estimate for interest in the book was modest, based on a percentage of my social media followi...
Where Would You Shelve Widdershins? 📚
Or, who's a good Widdershins neighbour?
[I’m still reeling from the news that Granta has published an award-winning story written by AI. There’s a lot to unpack here and I’m planning to write a longer piece in response next month.]
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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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