Nicola Griffith

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

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Fab podcast interview!

in which I talk to Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight on X-Ra Vision about SPEAR and HILD, #CripLit and Queer Lit, and how all my books are about answering a specific question.

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Posted on April 15, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
Image description: Black and white headshot of a smiling, short-haired white woman in three-quarter profile before a microphone. She looks very happy to be in front of an audience.

Big, giant juicy interview!

In this 10,000-word interview we cover Spear, writing, Hild, Menewood, why I love reading reviews, why Angela Carter’s metaphors don’t work for me, the Matter of Britain, research, creative process, life, the universe, and everything…

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Posted on February 5, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

When accidents become icons

Most explanations for the nimbus on Celtic crosses are Just-So stories. Now there’s a much better explanation.

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Posted on September 24, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild’s bynames #3: Little Prickle

Little Prickle, referring to the hedgehog, is as much a pet name for Hild as a byname.

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Posted on June 5, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild art

I’m experimenting with making my own Hild-related art. So far it’s mainly animals…

https://gemaecce.com/2021/04/20/making-my-own-hild-art/

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Posted on April 20, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild through others’ eyes

Here’s the latest in a line of Hild-related art created by readers—only this time its based not on the novel itself but on my blog posts about the novel

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Posted on April 11, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Menewood progress

When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce

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Posted on February 12, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Queer Early Medieval: LGBTQ+ History Month

To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month I’ll be talking to Cheryl Morgan about gender and sexuality in 7th-C Britain, and why I chose to write Hild as bisexual.

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Posted on January 26, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New interview just up

A new interview just went up on The Fantasy Hive, in which I talk like a machine gun to Jonathan Thornton about my entire fiction career.

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Posted on December 23, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

MENEWOOD!!

I have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!

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Posted on November 17, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Wordgathering interview

A new interview with me is up at Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Lots of stuff about So Lucky and disability, of course, but also much about my work in general.

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Posted on February 25, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Call for contributors: A Hild Companion

CFP: A Hild Companion, an accessible guide to the novel and its Early Medieval context, designed for scholars, teachers, and lay readers wanting to pursue the period in great depth.

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Posted on January 26, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Why I’m going to be saying No a lot

For the rest of this year and all of next I’m turning down professional invitations of every kind. I have work to do.

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Posted on November 20, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A writing update: Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more

New of Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more

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Posted on November 18, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More Hild-inspired art

If you need a break from the depressing and teeth-grindingly infuriating news cycle, go take a look at the page of Hild-inspired…

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Posted on July 15, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The role of embodiment in creative and scholarly enquiry: a plenary lecture

Last week I gave a plenary lecture—at IONA, a new medieval conference in Vancouver, BC. I talked about the role of embodiment and identity in creative and scholarly enquiry. Here’s the PDF and slides.

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Posted on April 18, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My new favourite interview

“…the role of women in the so-called Dark Ages could not remotely resemble the bullshit we’ve been fed in which we were merely rape toys and/or brood mares and/or warty old wise women of the wood” A new interivew up at Moss.

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Posted on February 4, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My 7th century bronze bird brooch

I now own a bronze and enamel replica of a 7th C Anglo-Saxon bird brooch.

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Posted on June 12, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Extra super special bargain signed and personalised books!

I’m teaming up with Phinney Books in Seattle to bring you signed books for the holidays. Only this year we have SOMETHING SPECIAL to offer: buy a signed, personalised hardcover or paperback of Hild, and get the ENTIRE AUD TRILOGY—also signed and personalised!—for only an additional $10!! (plus shipping).

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Posted on December 18, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More Hild-inspired art

More Hild-inspired pictures from readers.

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Posted on July 23, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The story of my PhD, Part 5: Future

This is Part Five of the story of my doctorate—the who, why, when, what, and how of it—based on questions from readers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Posted on July 21, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild cat pix and fan art now a page

I’ve just added a new picture to the Hild fan art page—a sun-dappled Hild sitting by her pool wearing many of her…

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Posted on July 13, 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

Intellectual judgement buried in the syllabus

School, at all levels, is where we learn what’s important. The Open Syllabus Project offers a tool to look at the intellectual judgements embedded in our education.

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Posted on February 9, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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