Menewood progress
When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce
Read moreWhen is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce
Read moreTo 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 moreA 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 moreI have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!
Read moreA 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 moreCFP: 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 moreFor the rest of this year and all of next I’m turning down professional invitations of every kind. I have work to do.
Read moreIf you need a break from the depressing and teeth-grindingly infuriating news cycle, go take a look at the page of Hild-inspired…
Read moreLast 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 more“…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.
Read moreI’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 moreThis 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 moreI’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 more“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 moreI’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 moreSchool, 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 more“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 moreFrom the Guardian: “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.”
Read moreToday is my birthday. Tomorrow, Hild is out in paperback in the UK. The best present you could give me? Go buy it!
Read moreYou were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull…
Read moreOut in six weeks, October 1: a luscious, newly-typeset paperback edition of Hild. At 640 pages, it’s even more capacious…
Read moreI couldn’t be at University Bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day when they had that great pretend-you’re-Hild poster board, so I popped in yesterday and had a go…
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