Writing as Advocacy Workshop with Yvonne Battle-Felton

Yvonne Battle-Felton is co-Director of North West Literary Arts and Lecturer of Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam UniversityFor moreinformationon the Department of English and the Faculty

Yvonne Battle-Felton, Sheffield Hallam University Humanities

The last workshop in the writing for advocacy series, this workshop will include a series of writing prompts and editing tips.

The writing for advocacy workshops were inspired by my need to act. Writing is a form of advocacy. Through it, we can write characters, places, spaces,and issues we want to read about and imagine the world we want to see. Writing encourages reflection and dialogue that may lead to meaningful workshops.Join us for the final session. In these free, creative-writing workshops, we will use exercises to write the stories we want to bring to life. The workshop is open to writers of any level.To join one of the workshop break-out rooms and give/receive peer feedback on a draft (300-1,000 words), please email Yvonne at y.battle-felton@shu.ac.uk by Monday, November 23. You'll be put in a break-out room group on the day.Here's a short recap of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=681453489146518" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">September's workshop.</a>About me:Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Remembered, is an American writer living in the UK. Her 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). Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), Yvonne was shortlisted for the Words and Women Competition (2017), 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 Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and has three titles in Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Tales of Superheroes. Yvonne has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a 2019 British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow, and Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries at Sheffield Hallam University.Yvonne’s advocacy is through stories. She aims to develop communities through stories and to support writers in writing stories that show the world as it is and as it could be—and bring those stories to life.

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