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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Hild’s bynames #3: Little Prickle
Little Prickle, referring to the hedgehog, is as much a pet name for Hild as a byname.
Read moreHild 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/
Read moreHild 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
Read moreMenewood progress
When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce
Read moreQueer 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.
Read moreNew 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.
Read moreMENEWOOD!!
I have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!
Read moreWordgathering 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.
Read moreCall 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.
Read moreWhy 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.
Read moreA writing update: Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
New of Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more
Read moreMore 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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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.
Read moreMy 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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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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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).
Read moreMore Hild-inspired art
More Hild-inspired pictures from readers.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreHild 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…
Read moreMy 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.
Read moreHild 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.
Read moreIntellectual 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.
Read moreMore UK reviews
“Nicola Griffith works a special brand of literary magic…a stunning blend of real history and soaring imagination…steeped in the language and customs of early Britain.” More fab reviews from the UK.
Read moreUK reviews of Hild
From the Guardian: “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.”
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