Nick Hayes

Nick Hayes (born 1982) is a British writer, illustrator, and campaigner for land access. He has written a number of graphic novels and a non-fiction book, The Book of Trespass.

Life and work
Hayes grew up in Upper Basildon, Berkshire. He attended Abingdon School from 1995 to 2000.

He works as an illustrator. In 2004 he was a founding editor of Meat Magazine.

In August 2020, Hayes and Guy Shrubsole launched a campaign on freedom to roam in England, called Right to Roam. 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.

Graphic novels

 * The Rime of the Modern Mariner. Jonathan Cape, 2011. ISBN 978-0224090254.
 * Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads. Harry N. Abrams, 2016. ISBN 978-1419719455.
 * Cormorance. Jonathan Cape, 2016. ISBN 978-1910702055.
 * The Drunken Sailor. Jonathan Cape, 2018. ISBN 978-1910702062.

Non-fiction books

 * The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. ISBN 9781526604699.