In Conversation with... Ruthy Mason, Yvonne Battle-Felton and Midge Gillies

Midge Gillies will be in conversation with novelist and PACE's Academic Director of Creative Writing Dr Yvonne Battle-Felton and debut novelist Dr Ruthy Mason in this free, Zoom event on Thursday 3 December, 7pm to 8pm, UK time.
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Dr Midge Gillies

Dr Midge Gillies

I’m Associate Teaching Professor at PACE. I have been teaching at the organisation for around twenty-five years, until a few years ago as Academic Director of Creative Writing.

Ruthy Mason, Midge Gillies and Yvonne Battle-Fenton for December's In Conversation event

Ruthy Mason is a graduate of PACE’s Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction and Writing for Performance and Master’s in Creative Writing. She'll be discussing her debut novel, 'Death Do Us' and the power of horror in fiction.

Ruthy’s novel is a haunting story that peels back the veil from the institution of marriage and exposes the rot underneath. Marie Claire magazine included it in 'The 13 Best Novels of 2026 That You Absolutely Need to Read' and described the book as a "psychological-thriller-slash-body-horror story about the often-suffocating expectations of womanhood”.

Yvonne Battle-Felton's second novel, 'Curdle Creek' explores themes of home, belonging, motherhood and what we inherit from society in a book that has been described as “American gothic” offering “a mash-up of the surreal and literary horror”.

Tananarive Due, L.A. Times Book Prize-winning author of 'The Reformatory', described 'Curdle Creek' as a “thoughtful, sinister tour-de-force”.