Podcast with Yvonne Battle-Felton Coming Up!

This afternoon I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode with writer Yvonne Battle-Felton. Yvonne, the author of Remembered, is an American writer living in the UK whose writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies. Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). She also writes for children and has three titles in Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and three in the forthcoming Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. A Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam University, Yvonne is very involved in hosting and chairing events, interviewing authors, giving workshops, and collaborating on interesting projects.

For her Book-Able Space podcast, Yvonne asked me some questions about my writing, and asked me to read three short selections from In Search of the Magic Theater. I'll be posting a link to the podcast once it's live!

It's 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. Spring's son has been beaten by police for a crime he may or may not have committed. In order to lead her dying son home, Spring, with the help of her dead sister, must relive a painful past in order to bring her dying son home. It's a story about motherhood, mothering, family, community, identity, and the trauma of slavery.

Remembered, Yvonne Battle-Felton's debut novel, is available in hardback, ebook, and audio.