Award-winning SF author Lorraine Wilson heads to Lancaster Literature Festival for event with Yvonne Battle-Felton
Lorraine Wilson, author of BSFA longlisted We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and Mother Sea, shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2023), will be at the 46th Lancaster Literature Festival (LitFest) on Sunday 9th March at 5.30pm. She'll be in a superb double bill with Yvonne Battle-Felton (whose debut novel, Remembered, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020).
Book tickets to attend in person (£5) or online (£3) here
In We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, the internet has collapsed, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry.
Katerina flees the city to a village on the edge of a forest. But when a wordless boy finds her in the marketplace with nothing but her name in his pocket, the mood in the village begins to sour…
In Mother Sea, an island community facing extinction, can hope rise stronger than grief?
Sisi de Mathilde lives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. With the seas rising, the birth rate plummeting and her community under threat, she works as a scientist, reporting on local climate conditions to help protect her island home. But her life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself newly widowed and unexpectedly pregnant.
When a group of outsiders arrive and try to persuade her community to abandon the island, Sisi is caught between the sacred ‘old ways’ of her ancestors and the possibilities offered by the outside world. As tensions rise and the islanders turn on one another, Sisi must fight to save her home, her people and her unborn child.
Lorraine Wilson is an ex-conservation scientist who writes fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness. With a third-culture heritage, she is drawn to themes of family, belonging and the legacy of trauma. Her debut novel This Is Our Undoing (2021) was shortlisted for the Kavya Prize and for the British Fantasy Society’s Best Newcomer and Best Fantasy Novel awards, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association’s Best Novel award. Her second novel The Way the Light Bends was published in 2022. She won a British Fantasy Award for her short story ‘Bathymetry’ in 2022. Lorraine currently lives on the east coast of Scotland with her family.
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). 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 and three titles in Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones.
Yvonne's second novel, Curdle Creek, was published in 2024. Yvonne has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is Associate Teaching Professor at Cambridge University where she is the Academic Director of Creative Writing for the Institute of Continuing Education.
• Yvonne Battle-Felton - Official Website
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