Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: October 2019

Two tabby cats sitting up after a nap on a woven throw next to a laptop.

Kitten report #08: Kipper and Ripper

Charlie and George are 10 days shy of 6 months old. They swing wildly between sweet fluffy fuzzballs and manic murdercats. They need new toys. Suggestions?

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Posted on October 31, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

20 years of Yahoo Groups

The nicolagriffith Yahoo Group began Sept 11, 1999. Membership, at last count, was 283 people. Twenty years of conversation, peaking in May 2008, is now it’s going away.

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Posted on October 19, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #07: the chameleon twins [photos]

Charlie and George are now 5 months old. One minute they look very grown up, then, in the blink of an eye, they revert to the itty bitty new-to-the-world kitties we brought home two months ago.

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Posted on October 16, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
Blue folder with a gold embossed seal: The seal of the State of Washington, 1889. On top is a name tag: Nicola Griffith, So Lucky.

So Lucky wins the WA State Book Award!

So Lucky just won the WA State Book Award for Fiction! I’m happy—and surprised. What I want to talk about here is my surprise.

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Posted on October 13, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Saturday 12th October: Washington State Book Awards

Saturday 12th October, 7-9pm, Central Library downtown Seattle: Come and party at the Washington State Book Awards!

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Posted on October 11, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
Image description: Composite image of two book covers of So Lucky: A Novel, by Nicola Griffith. On the left, the UK edition. On a black background, a burning torch flames in orange and yellow up and across at least half the image. At the top, in between the flames are quotes from the Independent ‘a short, fast-paced whirlwind of a novel’ and BBC Culture‘a sophisticated thriller’. Below is the title, So Lucky in salmon-coloured type, and the author’s name, Nicola Griffith, in white. On the right, the US edition. The background is matte black with the title “So Lucky,” and the author’s name “Nicola Griffith,” in big uppercase type rendered as burning paper. In smaller, brighter letters between title and author is, “A novel,” and, below the writer’s name, “Author of Hild”

Neither Dying Nor Being Cured

This is the essay version of the Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture I gave last year at Ohio State University. It was first…

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Posted on October 9, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays
Two tabby kittens fast asleep on a white sofa, spooning, one with a protective paw over the other

Kitten Report #06 [photos and video]

The continuing adventures of tabby kittens Charlie and George, aged 19 weeks and 1 day.

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Posted on October 7, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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