Granite Noir 2025: Myth, Murder and Monstrosity with Sarah Maria Griffin, Elle Nash & Kirsty Logan

Granite Noir 2025: Myth, Murder and Monstrosity with Sarah Maria Griffin, Elle Nash & Kirsty Logan

Chaired by Eris Young

Plants with a taste for human flesh, body horror, living in the shadows, and witches revenge all come together in this panel event which delves into the gruesome and terrifying. Sarah Maria Griffin, Elle Nash and Kirsty Logan share the unsettling, twisted and bizarre narratives that frame their latest books. Not for the faint-hearted!

Sarah Maria Griffin

Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer, living in Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines. She posts on lnstagram under sarahgriffski.

Elle Nash

Elle Nash is the author of Gag Reflex (Clash Books) and Animals Eat Each Other (404ink), and the short story collection Nudes (404ink). Upon publication of Animals Eat Each Other in the UK, Elle appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to present the work of underrepresented voices with Amnesty International, and to speak about sex, death and feminism in literature. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Adroit, The Creative Independent, Hazlitt, Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan, New York Tyrant and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Witch Craft Magazine, runs the Goth Book Club and currently lives in Glasgow.

Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is the author of three novels, three story collections, a memoir, two chapbooks, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife, baby and rescue dog.

Eris Young

Eris Young is a queer, transgender author of fiction and nonfiction. Their short stories have appeared Pseudopod, Fusion Fragment, Escape Pod and Metastellar, as well as anthologies such as Uncanny Bodies from Luna Press Publishing. Their nonfiction books They/Them/Their: A guide to nonbinary and genderqueer identities (2019) and Ace Voices: What it means to be asexual, aromantic, demi or gray-ace (2022), are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing. They also edit fiction at Shoreline of Infinity magazine, were the writer-in-residence at Lighthouse Bookshop from 2019 – 2022, and in 2020 received a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award for fiction.