Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

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Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
A Place Beyond Setting

A Place Beyond Setting

on forming a radical, subversive belonging in writing

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Allyson Shaw
Apr 13, 2024
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Croft in Rackwick, Hoy Orkney

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing as a place and place-writing as a radical discipline. It’s what’s behind my upcoming workshop, Writing Yourself Home.

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In times of gentrification and alienation from the land, how can writing manifest a sense of belonging? How can we make the writing process itself a home—in the words of…

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