Nicola Griffith

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

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LLF

Words matter: creating culture, saving lives

The Lambda Literary Awards were presented last night. It sounds like a wonderful evening. There’s a write-up, including a full list of…

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Posted on June 5, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Donate a book for quiltbag YA readers

What a cool idea: Lambda Literary Foundation‘s My Story Book Club for quiltbag YA readers now has a donation programme. My Story aims to…

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Posted on April 20, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Support an emerging quiltbag writer

In August the Lambda Literary Foundation will hold it’s fifth Emerging Voices writers’ workshop/retreat for quiltbag writers. (LLF uses the term LGBT but…

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Posted on March 30, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lambda Literary Award nomination deadline

The deadline to nominate a book for the Lambda Literary Award is today. But Richard Labonte, administrator of the award, has these…

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Posted on December 1, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

LLF: New website and new challenge for you

The Lambda Literary Foundation has a new website design and a new challenge. LLF is the biggest and best queer lit organisation…

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Posted on November 1, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Happy Birthday to us!

Hild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…

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Posted on September 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

It’s time for the Lambda Literary Foundation to stand up

The Lambda Literary Foundation released its new award eligibility criteria today: LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of…

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Posted on August 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Changing gears with LLF

After two years as a Trustee of the Lambda Literary Foundation, it’s time for me to change gears. It seems like a…

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Posted on August 4, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Am I writing? Am I burning?

I was struck yesterday by Saeed Jones’s post on LambdaLiterary.org, “The Ferocity: Fierce Manifest.” Fierce is Helene Cixous demanding in The School…

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Posted on July 28, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

We need their voices

Busy day today, so I thought I’d link to four things you might find interesting: Here’s a trailer for a film on…

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Posted on May 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Sunday at Elliott Bay Book Company

This Sunday, May 8th, I’m hosting a reading of Lambda Literary Award finalists at Elliott Bay Book Company. The finalists are: Carol…

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Posted on May 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Save the date

If you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I’ll be MC’ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award…

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Posted on April 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Niftyness

So I was footling about on the LLF website (I like to go admire Kelley’s interview every so often–my sweetie!) and came…

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Posted on March 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat 2011

Last year I taught the fiction workshop at LLF’s Emerging Voices writers’ retreat. It was a pretty astonishing week. If you’re interested…

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Posted on February 2, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tell LLF how to support queer lit

The Lambda Literary Foundation needs your input. Why should you care? Well because. Because you’ll become magically better looking, more talented, and…

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Posted on January 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My 2010: good, bad, and learning opportunities

Last night I started to mull my 2010, and what I kept thinking was, “Blimey, was that this year??” So much of…

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Posted on December 31, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

We did it! Thank you!

The Lambda Literary Foundation has reached its goal–two weeks early–to raise $10,000 for the Chuck Forester Challenge Grant. More than half the…

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Posted on November 10, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Can queer authors write straight characters?

photo: Lambda Literary A few weeks ago I did one of those ten-questions-by-email roundup interviews (with Gena Hymowech) for Lambda Literary on…

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Posted on November 8, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More than halfway there

The Lambda Literary Foundation is more than halfway to its goal of raising $10,000 for the Chuck Forester Challenge Grant: $6,500 so…

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Posted on November 1, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Writers: if you can’t give money, give a story

Yesterday, I talked about the challenge grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation by Emerging Voices fiction fellow Chuck Forester. If you have…

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Posted on October 13, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Help save queer lives. Give, and it will be doubled.

If you give $25 or more to the Lambda Literary Foundation right now, your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by…

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Posted on October 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Video of me reading in Los Angeles

Here’s video of me reading from Slow River last month at the LLF Emerging Voices Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, where I…

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Posted on September 5, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Fire in their bellies and mouths filled with light

Writing a blog post is a lot like writing anything else–it’s all about choosing what to leave out and how to arrange…

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Posted on August 20, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tired but happy

I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…

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Posted on August 17, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Perbs in the mist…

…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…

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Posted on August 3, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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