Nicola Griffith

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

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Video of Hild reading and Q&A

The Hild audiobook came out yesterday. In celebration, here are two short videos taken from the Hugo House gig in Seattle last…

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Posted on December 18, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Seattle Public Library: Tuesday, 12/10, 7 pm

If you’re going to be in Seattle the night of Tuesday December 10, please join me for a fantabulous evening in the…

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Posted on December 8, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Photos from the Hugo House reading and party

Just three quick proofs for now, taken by the incomparable Jennifer Durham. We’ve got more photos, and some splendid video from Kurt…

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Posted on November 18, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The first public reading of HILD: save the date!

I’ll be doing the very first public reading of Hild, Thursday May 30th, 7 pm, at McNally Jackson Books. It’ll be a…

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Posted on May 20, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Reading distinguishes us from other animals

At the end of December the Guardian ran a story about reading and empathy: Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to…

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Posted on January 10, 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

Latest report on Hild

I’m nearly two-thirds of the way through reading Hild. Parts of it most definitely rock the thunderdome. Parts of it, well, let’s…

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Posted on March 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Meet Hild

Photo taken with crapcam. It turns out that 976 pages is nearly 11cm (4.5 in) high. I don’t have a scale, so…

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Posted on February 23, 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

Books are journeys

I love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…

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Posted on October 8, 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

What are you reading?

It’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…

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Posted on August 23, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

calling all queer writers in the north east: party!

Just got this. It looks like a great opportunity for queer writers of all stripes and persuasions to meet, drink some free…

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Posted on August 23, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

take me away from it all…

I read an article in the Guardian a couple of days ago, which I’ve been pondering on and off since: “[A]s more…

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Posted on June 15, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

stressing out? read a novel

An article in the Telegraph about how reading reduces stress–even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more…

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Posted on March 30, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

doing it for pleasure

After a reader (thanks, Jennifer) reminded me, in a comment to “advice for girls,” that reading is pretty damn important I was…

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Posted on March 27, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

novels make us better people

Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931). Bram Stoker’s character embodied the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance. Photograph: Kobal According to an article in…

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Posted on January 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio: Always

So I learnt something this week: doing a reading with a hangover is not easy. Still, for you, dear reader, I struggled…

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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

the Golden Notebook Project

On November 10th, a fascinating experiment in interactive online reading will begin. In the words of Bob Stein, of the Institute for…

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Posted on November 2, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

video of me reading

Here are two videos of me reading at Hugo House from my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party….

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Posted on June 2, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

buy me a drink

From: Kai Jones I have a question: can I buy you a drink if we’re ever colocated? Just as a thank you…

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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Books! Beer! Babes!

For those of you who will be in or near Seattle on Tuesday, 6th May, I’ll be doing a reading at Hugo…

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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

intelligent, promiscuous reading

From: Jean R “…has anyone reading this ever done that?” you asked in response to an Ask Nicola query. Hello Nicola, well…

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Posted on April 26, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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