Nicola Griffith

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

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Flowers, cats, birds and bees [photos, video]

This year’s deck flowers were more of a experiment than usual, plus we had a lot more sun than we’re used to and in a different rhythm. The result? A garden full of colour, scent, dogfighting hummingbirds, bees, and a cat.

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Posted on August 30, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Clarion West/Fight For Our Lives [video, audio]

Help make Clarion West’s world-beating SFF writer’s workshop accessible for all!

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Posted on June 23, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #14: One year in the big wide world [photo, video]

Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…

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Posted on May 13, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

VICE News interview

VICE News interviews me and other writers/filmmakers about the difference between real and fictional pandemics.

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Posted on April 21, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #05: Visual rehab [photo and video]

Kitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment

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Posted on September 28, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten report #02

A photo and video update of the continuing adventures of kittens Charlie and George.

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Posted on September 7, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Why stories matter

A compilation video of five PNW authors—Tom Rob Smith, Jamie Ford, me, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Stella Cameron—talking about story and why it matters.

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Posted on August 7, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

So Lucky video

Gathered in one place for your amusement, here are a few bits of So Lucky-related video and animation.

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Posted on May 30, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Animated book cover for So Lucky!

I love this animation of the So Lucky cover by the fabulous graphics department at FSG! Don’t blame them for the sound, though; that’s something I added.

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Posted on April 20, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Good music for hard times

It’s been a day of hard news. But here’s a song I love, I’ve always loved. It always helps me. Perhaps it…

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Posted on June 1, 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

Tannenbomb*

Holiday tradition around here: blow the Christmas up. But because 2016 was so fucking special, you get four versions. Enjoy

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Posted on December 24, 2016 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

Darth doesn’t like Christmas trees…

Darth Vader gets irritated by our Christmas tree…

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Posted on December 18, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Watch this video about privilege and children’s lit

A video of a panel discussion, “Who Holds the Power: The Impact of Privilege on Children’s Literature,” taped at the Children’s Librarians Institute. Useful whether you’re new to the idea or have spent time thinking about and acting from the perspective of diversity.

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Posted on April 20, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Touching Fire video

“Sun on Dragonfly” is a video made in response to an audio excerpt of my story,”Touching Fire.” Maybe NSFW.

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Posted on April 9, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Girls of lost subcultures

I’m apparently one of the “girls from lost subcultures” in Visible Girls, an exhibit by photographer Anita Corbin. Shot in 1981 (!) and now on exhibit in London.

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Posted on March 11, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild roundup #14

See the roundup of roundups for more reviews, interviews and Hild miscellany than you could possibly want. REVIEWS Bookreporter Hild, Sarah Rachel…

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Posted on March 7, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

PBS interview

The first part of my PBS interview on Well Read just went up on the web. Sadly the usual embed code doesn’t seem…

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Posted on March 5, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild roundup #8

This will be the last links roundup, I think. Hild‘s been out six weeks and the pace of reviews and interviews is…

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Posted on December 22, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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

Hild roundup #1

One week to go and then Hild is unleashed on the world. With any luck at this time next week I’ll be…

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Posted on November 5, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Two interviews about HILD: video and written

Two interviews about Hild have just gone up. The first was shot on the floor of BEA on Friday, 30 May 2013, by the…

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Posted on October 31, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Help a fellow reader, help me

If you want to give me and Kelley a wedding present, and/or you want to support MS research in Australia, here’s something…

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Posted on September 26, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Two ways to look at the restored Rijksmuseum

There’s the Economist’s blog article on the brilliantly restored Rijksmuseum, with thoughtful, luscious videography. And then, when your Sunday latte has woken…

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Posted on April 14, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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