Nicola Griffith

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

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The gift of a negative review

Part of a critic’s job is to offer an expert, informed opinion of art. Keyword: informed. We need disabled critics to review disabled art.

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Posted on January 16, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Mother in speculative fiction

Adrienne Rich said that cathexis about the mother-daughter relationship is “the great unwritten story” in US and UK fiction. By this she didn’t mean women don’t write about it, but that literary critics don’t. This is particularly true in the genre of speculative fiction.

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Posted on July 22, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Juicy discussion about Hild on Strange Horizons

A long and juicy discussion of Hild by four critics who don’t always agree.

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Posted on April 30, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

learning to take it

Over at Sterling Editing, Kelley is talking about how it is to learn, as a writer, to take criticism. She is also…

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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Queer Universes blog

Some of you may already have read the essay I wrote with Kelley, “War Machine, Time Machine,” which was first published in…

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Posted on March 10, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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