Author Event: Yvonne Battle-Felton

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Yvonne Battle-Felton is an award-winning author, academic, editor, podcaster, host, creative producer and writer. Her debut novel, Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Yvonne's second novel, the eerie Curdle Creek, won the prestigious Shirley Jackson Award for literary horror. It is an American Gothic in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and quite unlike anything else you will have read! If you like Ring Shout or Lovecraft Country, you will love this. Curdle Creek was a finalist in the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Zora Award for Fiction and, a winner of the RSL Scriptorium Award. Yvonne is the Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge University. She has written six titles for Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Series.