Yvonne Battle-Felton

Yvonne Battle-Felton About Me

Author of Remembered, I am a writer, academic, host, creative producer, and podcaster. Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), I was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and have six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and The Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. I teach creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University where I am a Principal Lecturer and Humanities Business and Enterprise Lead. Writer of nonfiction and fiction, short stories, novels, children’s adventures, and children’s nonfiction, I love stories in all its forms and aim to create spaces for diverse characters on and off the page, screen, and stage. Host of Write Your Novel with Yvonne Battle-Felton, a write-along podcast series developed with New Writing North, I create and host literary and storytelling events and opportunities and look forward to making Kirklees home.

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Telling it Like It&apos;s Lived True Story Open Mic / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2022-03-03T00:00:00Z">Thu 03 Mar 2022</span>Telling it Like It's Lived True Story Open Mic / Thu 03 Mar 2022

Celebrate World Book Day and International Women’s Week with a night of true stories. Five-Seven storytellers will have 3-5 minutes each to share their true story loosely exploring the theme “memories.” Stories might...