Nick Hayes

{{Short description|English illustrator and campaigner (born 1982)}}

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Nick Hayes (born 1982){{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/flipping/AbingdonNews27/files/assets/downloads/page0016.pdf |title=Old Abingdonians |website=Abingdon School |access-date=18 June 2024}} is a British writer, illustrator, and campaigner for land access.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Forgive us our trespasses: forbidden rambles with a right-to-roam campaigner|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/09/forgive-us-our-trespasses-forbidden-rambles-with-a-right-to-roam-campaigner|date=9 August 2020|website=The Guardian}} He has written a number of graphic novels and a non-fiction book, The Book of Trespass.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Bradley Garrett - This Land is Your Land|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/this-land-is-your-land|website=Literary Review}}

Life and work

Hayes grew up in Upper Basildon, Berkshire. He attended Abingdon School from 1995 to 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/flipping/AbingdonNews27/files/assets/downloads/page0016.pdf |title=Rime of the Modern Mariner |website=Abingdon School |access-date=18 June 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/the-times-right-to-roam/ |title=The Times: Right To Roam |website=The History of England |access-date=18 June 2024}}

He works as an illustrator. In 2004 he was a founding editor of Meat Magazine.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Nick Hayes|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/128326/nick-hayes|website=Penguin Random House}}

In August 2020, Hayes and Guy Shrubsole launched a campaign on freedom to roam in England, called Right to Roam.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Keep On Roaming - Ramblers|url=https://www.ramblers.org.uk/news/latest-news/2020/august/keep-on-roaming.aspx|website=www.ramblers.org.uk}} In July 2021 he and Shrubsole collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and David Bangs to organise a mass trespass on the Sussex Downs to raise awareness of the failings of the 2000 CROW act, which Shrubsole claims still only gives the public access to 8% of land and 3% of rivers in England.{{Cite web|title=Hundreds attend mass trespass for the right to roam|url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/magazine/sussex_walks/east_sussex_walks/19467688.mass-trespass-attended-300-brighton-downs/|access-date=2021-07-26|website=The Argus|date=26 July 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2021/07/how-trespass-movement-battling-kinder-more-inclusive-britain|access-date=2021-07-30|website=www.newstatesman.com|date=29 July 2021 |language=en}}

Publications

=Graphic novels=

The Rime of the Modern Mariner. Jonathan Cape, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0224090254}}.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=The Rime of the Modern Mariner by Nick Hayes – review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/03/rime-modern-mariner-nick-hayes|date=2 April 2011|website=The Guardian}}
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads. Harry N. Abrams, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1419719455}}.{{cite news|first1=James|last1=Smart|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads review – a passionate picture of the folk singer and his times|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/29/woodie-guthrie-and-the-dust-bowl-ballads-by-nick-hayes-review-review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 November 2014|issn=0261-3077}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-04-07|title=Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads Actually Make Pretty Good Comics|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/woody-guthrie-dustbowl-ballads-comic-nick-hayes/|website=Vice.com|date=7 September 2016 }}{{cite web|first1=Dan|last1=Kois|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Read This Beautiful, Stirring Cartoon Portrait of Woody Guthrie|url=https://slate.com/culture/2016/03/nick-hayes-cartoon-biography-woody-guthrie-and-the-dust-bowl-ballads-reviewed.html|date=10 March 2016|website=Slate Magazine}}
Cormorance. Jonathan Cape, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1910702055}}.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Cormorance by Nick Hayes review – the healing power of nature|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/04/cormorance-nick-hayes-graphic-novel-review-healing-power-nature|date=4 November 2016|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|first1=Aimée|last1=McLaughlin|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Cormorance, by Nick Hayes|url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/inspiration/cormorance-nick-hayes/|website=Design Week|date=11 October 2016 }}
The Drunken Sailor. Jonathan Cape, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1910702062}}.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=The Drunken Sailor by Nick Hayes review – intense beauty|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/30/drunken-sailor-nick-hayes-review-graphic-novel|date=30 April 2018|website=The Guardian}}

=Non-fiction books=

The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. {{ISBN|9781526604699}}.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes review – a trespasser's radical manifesto|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/10/the-book-of-trespass-by-nick-hayes-review-a-trespassers-radical-manifesto|date=10 August 2020|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes book review|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-book-of-trespass-nick-hayes-review-sara-hudston/|website=The Times Literary Supplement}}{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Book of the Week: The Book of Trespass|url=https://www.idler.co.uk/article/book-of-the-week-the-book-of-trespass/|website=Idler}}{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=The Book of Trespass is a gorgeously written and merrily provocative tour of English landscapes|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/the-book-of-trespass-nick-hayes-review-tour-english-property-law-culture-history-610166|date=25 August 2020|website=inews.co.uk}}