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Yvonne Battle-Felton

@whyiwrite.bsky.social

Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems

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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

12.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

09.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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 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-...

02.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Danger No Problem and Sunday or the Highway book covers on brick b/g with Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

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-...

09.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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 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-...

22.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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 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-...

27.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Busy for the next 15 hours or so? Check this out!

27.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for sharing this!

27.09.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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
bit.ly/20Hours20Pro...

27.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks so much! I’m really excited about it

11.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ANOTHER by @paultremblay.bsky.social is officially a New York Times bestseller! 🥳📚

11.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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

03.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

30.07.2025 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

29.07.2025 11:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Jack! Congratulations, everyone!

22.07.2025 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to this years Shirley Jackson Award Winners!

@edenroyce.bsky.social @kfawver.bsky.social @whyiwrite.bsky.social @omgjulia.bsky.social
@byzantienne.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

21.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

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.

21.07.2025 02:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

22.07.2025 07:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

Purchase: bit.ly/3GS3nYn

20.07.2025 23:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks so much!!

22.07.2025 07:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is your invitation to join the Centre for Creative Writing at Cambridge Uni for an hour of lunchtime writing. We’ll be writing from 12PM-1PM BST on zoom. Don’t have anything to work on? Today’s prompt is “Instincts” (loosely interpreted).
Msg me if you would like the zoom link.

15.07.2025 10:19 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

It's Every Other Sunday, my day for quiet reading. I'm reading from 6-8 PM (BST). Feel free to join me when and where you are. Today, I'm reading The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien. What are you reading?

06.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying." Read our Review of Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social buff.ly/TpVNzQu

04.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I love this review! Thanks for reviewing Curdle Creek!

05.07.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!

25.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Curdle Creek has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson awards and I’m just going to sit this beautiful graphic right here to celebrate.

25.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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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

If you're writing something and would like to read it at tonight's open mic, we'd love to hear it. As always, all are welcome to listen as well. 7:30-8:30 PM (BST). To join us in zoom, please register in advance: bit.ly/CentreforCWS...

25.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! It will be on Sunday, July 6 from 6-8 PM (BST)

24.06.2025 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks, that’s lovely to see. I’ll add it to my TBR.

23.06.2025 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great, how is the book?

22.06.2025 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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