Writing and Publishing Panel

Centre for Poetry and Poetics / Agnes Lehoczky

Centre for Poetry and Poetics in collaboration with Black Humanities Series presents: 

Writing and Publishing Panel

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics in collaboration with Black Humanities Series presents: Writing and Publishing Panel IRENOSEN OKOJIEAuthor, Journalist and Presenter VANESSA ONWUEMEZI,Writer and Poet YVONNE BATTLE-FELTONNovelist, Children's Writer and Commissioning Editor Wednesday 15th May 6.30pm, Diamond Lecture Theatre 2 IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She co-presented the BBC's Turn Up for The Books podcast, alongside Simon Savidge and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. Her work has been optioned for the screen. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival. VANESSA ONWUEMEZI is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 and was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2021. It was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize in 2022. Her short story Green Afternoon was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2022. YVONNE BATTLE-FELTON’s novel Remembered (Dialogue Books/Blackstone Publishing) was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). She won the Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017) and received a British Library Eccles Centre and a Kimbilio Fiction Fellowship. Curdle Creek, her second novel, will be published in October, 2024 by Dialogue Books (UK) and Henry Holt (US). She is a senior commissioning editor (literary fiction) at John Murray, and Associate Professor and Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education. For her children’s writing, she was commended in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and she has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and The Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. Yvonne is host of Sheffield Draft Night and Telling it Like it’s Lived True Story Open Mic.

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