Nicola Griffith

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

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Signed personalised books for the holidays—including my memoir!

I’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.

And, this year only, you can BUY A COPY OF MY SIGNED, NUMBERED MEMOIR-IN-A-BOX.

I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Posted on November 22, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Treasure trove discovered: my memoir in a box!

Want to read my short autobiographical essays like “No-Pants Griffith,” “Whole Psychopath” and “Limb of Satan”? All true stories!

You’ll need a copy of AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY: LINER NOTES TO A WRITER’S EARLY LIFE

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Posted on November 21, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Indivisible—except by 3 and 11

Indivisible—except by 3 and 11. Thirty-three years ago today I met Kelley. It was a scorching hot today—just like today…

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Posted on June 26, 2021 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

And Now We Are Going to Have a Party

Memoir. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. “…an extraordinary writer and an astonishingly brave woman. This is a map of the changing world, the world that changed as Nicola became the writer she is, and the world that has changed as so many women and queers and outlaw voices speak.” — Dorothy Allison

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Posted on February 24, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in 1-books

Dirty Old Town

This is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…

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Posted on March 24, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Sex and science fiction, Part One

I recently did a one-hour interview for BBC Radio 4 about how science fiction uses sex and gender to tell stories about…

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Posted on September 1, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My coming out story

Today is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…

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Posted on October 11, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

The only live music I saw while growing up was school and church music: Bach on the organ, school orchestras mangling Haydn,…

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Posted on January 15, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

short story collection: cold, hard reality

From: karina I’ve been holding off on emailing you about my experience with your short story collection. I sent you a question…

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Posted on July 23, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Partying

From: Duffy Just finished reading [And Now We Are Going to Have a Party]. I have a better understanding of Aud now….

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Posted on May 21, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

writing is hard, let’s go drinking

From: Kelley (kelleya1@hotmail.com) Seems like long ago, we were on a board together–an book discussion board, where I was embarrassed to discover…

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Posted on April 11, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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