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Yvonne Battle-Felton

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I am an American writer living, loving, and learning in the UK. My writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies. My debut novel Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019), The Not the Booker (2019), and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Curdle Creek, my second novel, will be published in October 2024 (Henry Holt/Macmillan US and Dialogue Books/Hachette UK).

In 2017, I won a Northern Writers Award in fiction. I was also shortlisted for the Words and Women Competition (2017), the Sunderland University Waterstones SunStory Award in 2018, and awarded a Society of Author’s Foundation Grant for Remembered in 2018. I also write for children. I was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andly I am an American writer living, loving, and learning in the UK. My writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies. My debut novel Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019), The Not the Booker (2019), and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Curdle Creek, my second novel, will be published in October 2024 (Henry Holt/Macmillan US and Dialogue Books/Hachette UK).

In 2017, I won a Northern Writers Award in fiction. I was also shortlisted for the Words and Women Competition (2017), the Sunderland University Waterstones SunStory Award in 2018, and awarded a Society of Author’s Foundation Grant for Remembered in 2018. I also write for children. I was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017), have three titles in Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and I have three titles in the Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thorns (Sept. 2020).

I have a dual-concentration MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and moved my family from Maryland to the UK to pursue a PhD. I have a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. I love empowering other writers and am the Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge University. have been a British Library Eccles Centre Fellow and a Kimbilio fellow.

I love writing and telling stories. Writing is a form of advocacy. Writing helps me to be a better person. My writing typically starts with a question. When I’m very lucky, a character comes along to help me answer it. I write to understand the past, to make sense of the future, and to help imagine a more equitable tomorrow. I write to figure out what’s next.

When I’m not momming, writing, reading, creating literary events, teaching, and attending events (especially now with so many of them online), I’m recording audio or writing scripts I can read because I’d love to voice a villain one day.

If you’ve read Remembered I hope you enjoyed it. More than that, I hope it touches you.
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	Remembered 3.64 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curdle Creek 2.73 avg rating — 1,166 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes: With an introduction by David Solomons by Sufiya Ahmed, Yvonne Battle-Felton (Goodreads Author), Sarwat Chadda (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lancashire Stories by Rachel Teresa Crawshaw (Illustrator), Libby Ashworth, Yvonne Battle-Felton (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Strings of Fate by Writing on the Wall, Yvonne Battle-Felton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Naomi Scott (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“They say the traditions will die out when the timers do. Like timers don’t just birth more times. That’s silly talk. You can’t pass down time. Just beliefs. Timers birth believers, mostly.”
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“It wasn’t nothing for a grown man to ask to see the scars he imagined ran up and down my back, to ask how the whip felt on my skin. They want to be close up to pain, until they are. When I get mad about them telling me all they think they know about my life, they call me angry. They say it like I ain't got no cause at all to be upset, sad. Can't hardly feel nothing without somebody telling me how I should feel instead. I can fall down a whole flight of stairs and won’t there be somebody at the bottom telling me I should be grateful to be alive?”
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“She says it like it’s logical. One and one is two. Black and black is slave. We done had this conversation a hundred times or more. She says it like I should know better.”
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