ashleigh
@ashleighyoung.bsky.social
Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-11-... This take is probably old, but I think this conversation would be less heated if these covers (sorry for cursing the timeline) were somehow good and/or the AI use were imperceptible. The fact that they're heinous makes it much easier and more fun to be outraged.
How two AI book covers forced the publishing industry to reckon with its future
A design studio’s use of AI has disqualified two books from the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-11-... This take is probably old, but I think this conversation would be less heated if these covers (sorry for cursing the timeline) were somehow good and/or the AI use were imperceptible. The fact that they're heinous makes it much easier and more fun to be outraged.
My emails, constantly
March 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My emails, constantly
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Hi, Āporo Press is publishing three books in the next year. Poetry by Nicola Andrews and Jo Bragg, and a novel by Laura Vincent.
If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora.
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora.
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
Three Books from Āporo Press
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...
www.thearts.co.nz
March 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hi, Āporo Press is publishing three books in the next year. Poetry by Nicola Andrews and Jo Bragg, and a novel by Laura Vincent.
If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora.
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora.
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
Saw the Eno doco last night (one of the many many iterations). Genius!! Highly recommend to anyone who tries to make things.
January 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Saw the Eno doco last night (one of the many many iterations). Genius!! Highly recommend to anyone who tries to make things.
Phone call with mum: ‘People are driving around the supermarket car park, you know, going 40! Knocking over little old ladies… it’s easy to do once you’ve done it’
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Phone call with mum: ‘People are driving around the supermarket car park, you know, going 40! Knocking over little old ladies… it’s easy to do once you’ve done it’
Sat my driving test today (passed!). I loved the test guy, an older man with big moustache. He refused all small talk and my efforts for us to be friends. Wouldn't say how his day was going. He sighed once at a red light but was otherwise an enigma. It was very freeing, somehow.
May 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Sat my driving test today (passed!). I loved the test guy, an older man with big moustache. He refused all small talk and my efforts for us to be friends. Wouldn't say how his day was going. He sighed once at a red light but was otherwise an enigma. It was very freeing, somehow.
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We are delighted to have a new James Brown book on the way. July! teherengawakapress.co.nz/slim-volume/
April 19, 2024 at 5:18 AM
We are delighted to have a new James Brown book on the way. July! teherengawakapress.co.nz/slim-volume/
*crying* Please. Academics. 'The internet' is not a valid source description for your photos.
April 19, 2024 at 2:38 AM
*crying* Please. Academics. 'The internet' is not a valid source description for your photos.
Just remembered an essay I have to write for an anthology, in less than a week. Good luck to my future self
March 8, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Just remembered an essay I have to write for an anthology, in less than a week. Good luck to my future self
Did a short poetry reading last night and it was fun and nice. But in her intro the lovely MC was like: ‘In these times we need poets to uplift and inspire us with their words’ and the poems I had prepared were about death and weed whacking and one was about a bad dream I had about green peas.
February 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Did a short poetry reading last night and it was fun and nice. But in her intro the lovely MC was like: ‘In these times we need poets to uplift and inspire us with their words’ and the poems I had prepared were about death and weed whacking and one was about a bad dream I had about green peas.
Significant milestone in my old-person-learning-to-drive journey: drove to the dump and got a new recycling bin
February 4, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Significant milestone in my old-person-learning-to-drive journey: drove to the dump and got a new recycling bin
'It’s best to use digital tools to implement these structured task systems because they’re well suited for organizing and modifying large numbers of items grouped into levels and categories ...' I found this article insane www.newyorker.com/culture/offi...
How to Have a More Productive Year
Knowledge work is always changing, and our approach to it needs to change, too.
www.newyorker.com
January 27, 2024 at 11:22 PM
'It’s best to use digital tools to implement these structured task systems because they’re well suited for organizing and modifying large numbers of items grouped into levels and categories ...' I found this article insane www.newyorker.com/culture/offi...
Breaking my social media silence to say that earlier I was just walking along carrying many boxes to the mailroom when I saw the work courier guy. He veered towards me and gave me and the boxes a friendly hug! Kind of baffling but nice. The old 'box effect', surely
January 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Breaking my social media silence to say that earlier I was just walking along carrying many boxes to the mailroom when I saw the work courier guy. He veered towards me and gave me and the boxes a friendly hug! Kind of baffling but nice. The old 'box effect', surely
Best blog :))) newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/21/k...
Ka pai: the 2023 ReadingRoom awards
ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias celebrates the best things in New Zealand writing this year
newsroom.co.nz
December 21, 2023 at 5:10 AM
Best blog :))) newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/21/k...
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I'm good at being terrible at self-promotion. However, my book 'Calamities!' came out earlier this year & then kinda vanished from existence & made no end-of-the-year lists or anything like that but fuck it, I'm quite proud of it. It's angry & a bit funny. Poems: shop.goodbookshop.nz/p/calamities...
Calamities!
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in...
shop.goodbookshop.nz
December 14, 2023 at 2:24 AM
I'm good at being terrible at self-promotion. However, my book 'Calamities!' came out earlier this year & then kinda vanished from existence & made no end-of-the-year lists or anything like that but fuck it, I'm quite proud of it. It's angry & a bit funny. Poems: shop.goodbookshop.nz/p/calamities...
Have almost surfaced from the busiest part of the year and feel dizzy from the effort of articulating my opinions, some of which are probably bad, and badly articulated – but also feel very lucky to get to read so many great things
December 11, 2023 at 5:07 AM
Have almost surfaced from the busiest part of the year and feel dizzy from the effort of articulating my opinions, some of which are probably bad, and badly articulated – but also feel very lucky to get to read so many great things
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How Memory Works
Come over here
we say to the days that disappear.
No, over here.
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How Memory Works
Come over here
we say to the days that disappear.
No, over here.
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December 2, 2023 at 7:23 PM
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How Memory Works
Come over here
we say to the days that disappear.
No, over here.
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How Memory Works
Come over here
we say to the days that disappear.
No, over here.
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Against all odds – Cycling Week is back! This might well be my dullest entry yet (except for the wind sock mystery) but still. The continuing is the thing. eyelashroaming.substack.com/p/cycling-we...
December 2, 2023 at 9:51 PM
Against all odds – Cycling Week is back! This might well be my dullest entry yet (except for the wind sock mystery) but still. The continuing is the thing. eyelashroaming.substack.com/p/cycling-we...
Sadly this event has had to be cancelled due to illness! Sorry everyone. I recommend still having a beer and reading a book though.
Little plug for an event I’m doing with Ya-Wen Ho and Ash Davida Jane next week at Unity. (hm. I really have to get a new author photo) www.eventfinda.co.nz/2023/author-...
Author Event: Ya-Wen Ho, Ashleigh Young and Ash Davida Jane
Author Event: Ya-Wen Ho, Ashleigh Young and Ash Davida Jane, Come and join Ya-Wen Ho, ..., Unity Books, Wellington, Wellington Region, 2 November 2023,
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November 2, 2023 at 3:39 AM
Sadly this event has had to be cancelled due to illness! Sorry everyone. I recommend still having a beer and reading a book though.
I am the grumpiest I have ever been.
October 30, 2023 at 8:34 PM
I am the grumpiest I have ever been.
Jetlag is actually great. Have been up since 3am. Made some leek and potato soup (with an intense focus that means the soup will be good). Multiple loads of washing. Multiple teas. Cleaned out the fridge. I feel like one of those crazed early-morning CEOs. But with no ambition
October 28, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Jetlag is actually great. Have been up since 3am. Made some leek and potato soup (with an intense focus that means the soup will be good). Multiple loads of washing. Multiple teas. Cleaned out the fridge. I feel like one of those crazed early-morning CEOs. But with no ambition