Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: June 2016

Herbs and Flowers

A few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.

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Posted on June 29, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

#CripLit Twitter Chat, Saturday July 23

On Saturday, July 23, at 4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern, I’ll be co-hosting the first #CripLit Twitter Chat with Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project (@DisVisibility). I hope you can join us.

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Posted on June 27, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

28th Anniversary

Today is the 28th anniversary of the day I met and fell in love with Kelley at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. And the first anniversary of marriage equality.anniv

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Posted on June 26, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

UK RIP

As all those English (and Welsh) citizens are about to discover, you get the country you vote for. Things are going to get worse for a while. Meanwhile, people will suffer and die.

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Posted on June 24, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The dozen daily delights

After the events of the last week I’ve decided to re-list the twelve daily deeds of delight for health and happiness. Each must be performed every single day. Each must be done without hurry, without thinking about what comes next.

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Posted on June 17, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Mass murder and the consequences of hate

I woke up today to news that an American citizen went to, Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, F, and shot and killed at least 50 people and injured at least 50 more. This is the worst mass shooting in US history. It was aimed squarely at QUILTBAG folk (and on a club’s “weekly upscale Latin night”).

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Posted on June 12, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My Story, Mystery: A Letter to Hild of Whitby

“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull.” This essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2015.

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Posted on June 6, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

Hild cat pictures and fan art

I’m hard at work on Menewood, aka Hild II. So here are a bunch of cat pictures, that is, cats with Hild, followed by some Hild fan art. Some of these you will have seen before, some are new.

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Posted on June 3, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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