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Curdle Creek
Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2025 · ShortlistShirley Jackson · 2024 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) | 2025 | Shortlist | |
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2024 | Winner | “Yvonne Battle-Felton won the SJA for her Southern Gothic horror about a Black community haunted by its own history of trauma and survival—a novel of dread, community, and the horror of inherited fear.” |
About This Book
In the all-Black town of Curdle Creek, a woman chosen to lead the annual community ritual must uncover what really happened to the families who disappeared in this Southern Gothic horror novel steeped in history and dread.
About the Author
Yvonne Battle-Felton is an American author and academic who won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for Curdle Creek (2024), a Southern Gothic horror novel set in a fictional Black community in the American South. The novel was praised for its atmospheric horror, its exploration of community, trauma, and inherited fear. Battle-Felton holds a PhD and is a professor of creative writing and African American literature. Read more →
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