Her stories bring the past to life and show its lasting impact on the here and now. Join novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton as she discusses slipstreaming through ghostly memories anchored in the most concrete and visceral realities of our angsty age.

That’s Monday the 24th of November, 2025 from 5-7pm GMT on Zoom.

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A bit more about our Featured Guest:

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, editor, podcaster, host, creative producer, and writer. Her debut, Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Yvonne has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird series. Winner of The Shirley Jackson Award (novel), Curdle Creek a gothic horror inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is her second novel. A Kimbilio Fellow, Yvonne is the Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge University, has been awarded an RSL Scriptorium Award (2025), and has been nominated for the Hurston Wright Zora (formerly Legacy) Award (2025).