BHM 2020 Event: ‘Writing as Advocacy: Why I Write’ Yvonne Battle-Felton

Date:  07 October 2020

Where: Online

Cost: Free

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The University of Gloucestershire with the local Historical Association and Lives of Colour proudly present a talk for Black History Month. Yvonne Battle-Felton is the author of Remembered, an historical novel set in Philadelphia in 1910. It tells the story of Spring, a formerly enslaved woman forced into a reckoning with her past in order to help her dying son. The novel was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019. She is also Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam University. She joins a long list of impressive speakers who have come to the University for Black History Month in recent years, including Gary Younge, Bonnie Greer, David Olusoga, Louisa Adjoa Parker and Seyi Rhodes. To find out more and register, click here.

Photograph by Ian Robinson.