Nicola Griffith

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

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“I need it, so I’ll have to build it”: So Lucky playlist

“I need it, so I’ll have to build it” is where the queer community began in the 60s and the feminist community in the 70s. The disabled community are doing right now. This is partly what So Lucky is about.

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Posted on May 12, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ammonite is 25 years old today!

Today both my career as a novelist and my MS are officially 25 years old.

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Posted on March 8, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Music of early 1981: what I was listening to

This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.

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Posted on June 18, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes Plane. Here’s how I framed that story in my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.

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Posted on March 8, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Bare Hands

I got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.

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Posted on February 3, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My music in one easy-to-listen-to playlist

Here’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.

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Posted on April 23, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

International Women’s Day

33 years ago today, International Women’s Day 1982, my band, Janes Plane, debuted…

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Posted on March 8, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In which I wear yellow pants

I just got these old, old photos (I was twenty-one) by email this morning from a Facebook friend (thanks, Margot). I don’t…

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Posted on May 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Orange Prize 2012 longlist

To coincide with International Women’s Day, the judges of the this year’s Orange Prize (the UK’s only annual book award for fiction…

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Posted on March 8, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

29 years ago today: me on video

Dead Kennedys, The Damned, The Undertones, Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, Stiff Little Fingers, and my band, Janes Plane. What do we all…

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Posted on December 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ammonite and Janes Plane

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Which also happens to be the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes…

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Posted on March 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

"Don’t Believe"

What do I think of Amazon’s latest attempt at PR? Not a lot. Judge for yourself. This is Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener…

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Posted on April 14, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

do I look like David Bowie? vote!

My computer is old. My software is broken. My brain is tired. Which is my way of saying: I still haven’t worked…

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Posted on April 5, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

blank by the water

The view from our window. I’ve just got back from time on the Olympic Peninsula with Kelley, my sister Anne and her…

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Posted on March 26, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

iwd and janes plane

Today is International Women’s Day. It is also the 27th anniversary of the very first gig of my long-ago band, Janes Plane….

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Posted on March 8, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: Bird of the Fragile Spirit

This is a melancholy song, drenched in nostalgia. I wrote the original lyrics when I was 17 at the same time as…

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Posted on December 19, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

fame! (shameless name dropping from long ago)

The last few days I’ve been thinking about England. (Last week was the 19th anniversary of coming to this country to live…

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Posted on December 16, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: Corner for You

Yesterday was the nineteenth anniversary of me coming to live with Kelley in this country. You’ve already heard the sappy song I…

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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: You Lied

Okay, after a day of rest and turkey I got all contemplative, so this is going to be a long one. Today’s…

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Posted on November 28, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: Reclaim the Night

I was going to do a reading from Always this week but circumstances, i.e., an evil virus, has removed that option. So…

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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: Bare Hands

I was going to do a reading but after yesterday’s screed I thought we could all do with a bit of music….

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Posted on August 15, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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