If you are interested in hosting author Jay Griffiths at your event, please contact her representative.
Jay Griffiths is available for writing workshops, author masterclasses, and speaking engagements.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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Aaron Millar’s Armchair Explorer Podcast
Jay is the subject of Aaron Millar’s Podcast, Armchair Explorer, in which she discusses some of the tales of the journeys she made to write ‘Wild: An Elemental Journey’ (published as ‘Savage Grace’ in the USA)
July 2022
‘Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times’, a new book by Jay Griffiths
In July 2022, Little Toller will publish ‘Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times’ by Jay Griffiths.
This book tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then noon and summer and finally evening and autumn. Set partly at the author’s home in Wales, the book journeys more widely, searching for a dead father in Prague, listening to the Sky-Grandmothers of Mexican myth and staying with the people of West Papua who, when they know they will fall over laughing, lie down first.
It asks: what is the real gift of Nemesis and why is she so misjudged? Why should flowers be prescribed as medicine? What do male zebra finches dream of? Where do the sands of time run fastest, and how is that connected to the age of anxiety?
It explores the dawn chorus; the tradition of sacred hospitality; dust from the time before the sun even existed; the twilight time of the trickster and the daily rituals of morning. In all of these it asks: why does light, through the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, affect us? Because light is how we think.
June 20th to June 24th, 2022
Arvon online writing course ‘Foraging for Inspiration’
Jay Griffiths and Cynan Jones will tutor an online writing course, through the Arvon centre. Course title ‘Foraging for Inspiration’. If you are interested in this course, please book through the Arvon website.
June 6th to June 11th, 2022
Tutoring a residential writing course at Arvon’s Lumb Bank Centre
From June 6th to 11th, 2022, Jay Griffiths and Tom Bullough will tutor a writing course titled ‘A Grammar of Animacy’, for non-fiction and fiction writers working on subjects in the living, natural world. If you are interested in this course, please book through the Arvon website.
April 5th, 2022
Jay Griffiths in conversation with Catalan philosopher Josep Maria Esquirol
This year, the London Book Fair is hosting a special series of talks on Catalan literature. Jay will be in conversation with Josep Maria Esquirol, author of ‘The Intimate Resistance: A Philosophy of Proximity’.
April 28th, 2022
Contributor to a documentary titled ‘Keeper of Time’.
Using ideas from her book ‘Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time; Jay is a contributor to an in-depth documentary about time, ‘Keeper of Time’ The world premiere of Keeper of Time will be Thursday, April 28th, 2022 at the SVA theater in New York City.
November 5th, 2021
The Long Time Academy Podcast
Jay Griffiths is one of the guests speaking about time for the Long Time Academy Podcast. It’s called: How to Stretch Time and is an exploration of deep time. “The Long Time Academy hopes to give listeners a sense of spaciousness, awe and passion to become good ancestors.”
The six episodes will be released weekly starting November 5, 2021, on all podcast platforms.
PAST EVENTS
Saturday 27th November, 2021 at 11.30am
Gifts of Gravity and Light
Jay will be speaking at the Hay Winter Festival about the book ‘Gifts of Gravity and Light’ which she has contributed to. The event will be chaired by Anita Roy, the editor of ‘Gifts of Gravity and Light’ which explores the seasons of the year through a variety of writers’ experiences.
19th November, 2021
Speaker at the flagship conference of The Bookseller, ‘Futurebook’
The Bookseller’s conference, Futurebook, will feature Jay Griffiths in a panel on the theme of ‘Hearts and minds: our role in engaging readers’. The discussion will feature the necessity of public engagement around the climate crisis.
November 4th, 2021
Stroud Book Festival, talk
Jay Griffiths will give a talk at the Stroud Book Festival in the evening of November 4th, 2021.
Online from November 2nd, 2021
Online Tutored Writing Course
Jay Griffiths will tutor an online writing course through Schumacher College in Devon.
The course is titled: ‘Audacity, Passion and Politics in the Written Word’.
There will be workshops and one-to-one tutorials.
October 7th, 2019 - October 20th, 2019
EXTINCTION REBELLION LONDON
Read Jay Griffiths’s account of being arrested as part of the Extinction Rebellion actions in April, 2019 in the new Extinction Rebellion Handbook, This is Not a Drill.
Read the essential Extinction Rebellion vision statement, “Why We Rebel“, curated by Jay Griffiths with the XR UK Vision team.
August 30th, 2021 - September 4th, 2021
Tutored Writing Course
Jay Griffiths and Mike Parker will tutor a writing course at the Arvon Centre at Totleigh Barton.
The course is titled: ‘ Outspoken Non-Fiction’.
There will be workshops and one-to-one tutorials as well as readings by both tutors and a guest reader, Laura Coleman.
June 8th, 2020 - June 13th, 2020
RESIDENTIAL WRITING COURSE
Jay Griffiths is tutoring a residential writing course at the Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank, June 8th to 13th, 2020.
Jay usually teaches one week-long residential course per year. To check forthcoming courses, please visit: https://www.arvon.org/
January 17th, 2020 - January 19th, 2020
WEALDEN LITERARY FESTIVAL
Enjoy a creative, restorative Midwinter Writing Retreat with Jay Griffith from January 17th to 19th, 2020, through the Wealden Literary Festival.
Suitable for all skill levels, with admission starting at £190.