YVONNE BATTLE-FELTON is an American writer living in Lancashire. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, she has been published in literary journals and anthologies. Her debut novel, Remembered, (Dialogue Books) was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019). Her second novel, Curdle Creek, was published in 2024.
Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), Yvonne was shortlisted for the Words and Women Competition (2017) and the Sunderland University Waterstones SunStory Award in 2018 and awarded a Society of Author’s Foundation Grant for Remembered in 2018. She was commended for children’s writing in the 2017 Faber Andlyn BAME Prize. Yvonne has six non-fiction children’s titles forthcoming with Penguin Random House: stories featuring Innana, Anansi and Loki and Thor are included in Ladybird Tales of Superheroes with three titles, The Sword in the Stone, Sundiata, and Princess Yennenga in a forthcoming title.
Yvonne holds an MA in Writing (dual concentration fiction and non-fiction) from Johns Hopkins University and a Creative Writing PhD from Lancaster University. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam University; she’s also a commissioning editor for John Murray Press, based in their Sheffield office. Yvonne is a creative producer, writer, and is co-founder and co-Director of North West Literary Arts. Her aim is to increase diversity in publishing and to take over the world, one story at a time.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction; historical fiction; short stories; creative non-fiction
- Location: Lancaster
- Possible meeting place: Printroom Café & Bar, The Storey, Lancaster
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