Horror Panel in Cambridge

Something wicked this way comes…Celebrate spooky season with horrorauthors Yvonne Battle-Felton, Kate van der Borgh, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Josh Winning.We’ll be exploring the dark and daring in this fearsome feast of books.Book signing to follow. Recommended ages 16+.

About the authors

Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University where she is an associate Lecturer. Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), her first novel, Remembered, is the story of an emancipated slave haunted by both the past and the present as she struggles to lead her dying son home. She writes for both adults and children, and she was commended for her children's writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017). She is the Academic Director for Creative Writing at the Professonal and Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.

Kate van der Borgh grew up in Burnley and studied Music at Cambridge. Now an award-winning copywriter, Kate is also a graduate of Faber's six-month Writing A Novel course and has had her short fiction published by The Fiction Desk. Whispers of the occult, class rivalry and Elizabethan alchemy fuel a glamorous her debut novel And He Shall Appear set in a Cambridge college. Kate lives in Leytonstone with her husband, Leo, and her unruly greyhound, Pongo.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt is an international bestselling author from The Netherlands. His breakthrough novel Hex was published in over twenty-five countries and hailed as 'totally, brilliantly original' by Stephen King and as 'phenomenal, phenomenal' by film director Mike Flanagan. His follow-up novels Echo and Oracle have since seen global publication, the former boasts, according to the Guardian, 'possibly the most frightening prologue ever written', while the latter was judged by The New York Times to be his 'sharpest, most compelling work to date'. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means 'Old Hill', was the first translated author to win a Hugo Award (for his short fiction, in 2015). He lives in the south of France with his partner and pet lizard.

Josh Winning is the critically acclaimed author of Burn the Negative, which was long-listed for a Bram Stoker Award, The Shadow Glass, and Heads Will Roll. He is a senior film writer at Radio Times and has written for Total Film,Gay Timesand Den of Geek. During his years as a film journalist, he has been on set with Kermit the Frog (and Miss Piggy), devoured breakfast with zombies on The Walking Dead, and sat on the Iron Throne on the set of Game of Thrones. Josh lives in Suffolk with his cat Penny.