Yvonne Battle-Felton

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: In Your Own Words Storytelling Open Mic . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. A monthly storytelling open mic hosted by the Creative Writing Centre at Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education

The Cambridge University Centre for Creative Writing's In Your Own Words Storytelling Open Mic is back. Join us as we shelter from the storms with a night of stories in all of their forms. Readers might share poetry, true stories, fiction, scripts, or anything in between.

Shown is a graphic that has a white background with multicoloured hands raised in a fist. On the bottom right and left is the BFS logo, a red and black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos (left to right): Carl Bayley; Anna Tizard; Stephen Frame; Ayida Shonibar; Yvonne Battle-Felton; Somto Ihezue.

BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing, taking place Saturday 10th January 2026, has readings throughout the day. Please check for listings.

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Write with me! I’m hosting a 12-hour online NYE writing party from 12PM-Midnight (GMT) and a midnight open mic. It’s on zoom. You can be anywhere. This is a year of some of my favorite videos. Let me know if you’d like the zoom link.

The auction ends tonight. I'd love to help you celebrate your book. Don't have a book to celebrate? It's holiday season. The gift of a book launch could be just what the writer in your life needs. You can support a good cause and celebrate your own or someone else's writing.

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Creatives have donated books, yoga, mentoring, editing, photoshoots, and more to raise funds for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. I donated support for your launch or post-publication book party. Help organizing, marketing, hosting, and celebrating. Bid here app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Did you know I host a bi-weekly online book club where readers read what ever book they want to read and then talk about it (or not)? I’ll be reading from 6-8 PM. I hope you’ll join me for two hours wherever (and whenever) you are #books #reading #bookclub

It's time for Season IV of Bookable Space! We're talking about spaces and places. Check out the latest episode of Bookable Space with Wendy Pratt. Wendy reads to us from The Ghost Lake. Listen to the full podcast here #books #reading shows.acast.com/bookable-spa...

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Read with me! I'll be reading Black Wood Women by Michael Stewart. If you'd like to join me for some quiet reading, I'll be reading in Zoom from 6-8 PM (GMT). If you'd like to join me, let me know.
Whether you join me in zoom or read later, what are you reading?
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I’m throwing a birthday party with a ghost story open mic for myself and for Curdle Creek on Halloween. It’s in Leeds. If you’d like to help us celebrate, order your free ticket(s) on Eventbrite.

Do I know any cover singers near Leeds? I’m throwing myself a birthday party/book party on Halloween with readings and a ghost story open mic. My budget is £150. I’d like jazz and R&B music. If you’d like to share a 3-5 minute ghost story, let me know #birthday #leeds #party

For as long as I can remember I’ve told myself I am not a 5 AM writer. I’m challenging myself to break this myth or to see if it’s true. I’m writing from 5:05 (or so)-6 AM (BST/GMT). You can join me in zoom or write with me from wherever/whenever you are. If you'd like the link, let me know #Writers

Happy release day on brick background. Book cover of IN DEADLY COMPANY by L.S. Stratton with a woman opening a red envelope with palm trees behind her. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to @shellystrattonbook.bsky.social for IN DEADLY COMPANY! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-deadly-...

Danger No Problem and Sunday or the Highway book covers on brick b/g with Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to @cindyfazzi.bsky.social for DOMINGO THE BOUNTY HUNTER (2 book series) DANGER NO PROBLEM and SUNDAY OR THE HIGHWAY! www.amazon.com/Domingo-the-...

Happy release day on brick b/g with book cover for THE WITCH WEARS PRADA by Lisa Siefert of a cat, cupcake, and candles. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to Lisa Siefert for THE WITCH WEARS PRADA! www.amazon.com/Witch-Wears-...

Happy release day on brick b/g with book cover of group of people for MURDER AT THE WRITERS CONFERENCE by Michelle Corbier. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to Michelle Corbier for MURDER AT THE WRITERS CONFERENCE! michellecorbier.com/books/write-...

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Write with us! We're celebrating 20 years of BBC Short Story Awards with 20 Prompts and 20 Hours of Writing. We're in number 5. It's a drop-in session on zoom. Write for a while, write for a little. Bring a work in progress or use our writing prompts. #WritingCommunity
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ANOTHER by @paultremblay.bsky.social is officially a New York Times bestseller! 🥳📚

It's time for Every Other Sunday book club. A book club where we read what ever book we want on Sundays from 6-8 PM (BST) and then talk about them. I'm reading Give Him to Me by Dorothy Koomson. If you're reading today, what are you reading? #books

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: In Your Own Words Storytelling Open Mic . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. A monthly storytelling open mic hosted by the Creative Writing Centre at Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education

tonight, 7:30-8:30 PM (BST). Join us for a night of stories (fiction and nonfiction) and poetry at In Your Own Words storytelling open mic. All are welcome to listen.
To join us in zoom, please register in advance: bit.ly/CentreforCWS...

There’s still time to join us. Bring your writing appetite and your work in progress. Don’t have something to work on? Today’s prompt is “kindness”. We’ll be writing in zoom until 1 PM (BST). I hope you can join us. #amwriting bit.ly/creativewrit...

Thank you, Jack! Congratulations, everyone!

Congratulations to this years Shirley Jackson Award Winners!

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@byzantienne.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

Congratulations on winning the Shirley Jackson Award!

Well deserved! Curdle Creek was definitely creepy, and the story was unique! It's a wonderful book, well worth re-reading.

Thank you for reading it and for the kind words! I loved writing this book and I’m super excited about the award!

Curdle Creek Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chillin...

Congratulations @whyiwrite.bsky.social!!

#CurdleCreek won #BestNovel at the 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards!

#Horror #Gothic

For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chilling in the best possible way.

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