JOIN US FOR OUR CREATIVE WRITING  FOR WELL-BEING WORKSHOPS ON 24 MAY, 10 AM TO 4 PM, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING, BRAYFORD CAMPUS 

Fiction OR Poetry for Creativity & Wellbeing Workshop
Tickets: £35
Explore core concepts of wellbeing such as time, rest, connection, and inspiration via engaging creative writing exercises. Develop an original piece of fiction or a poem in response and consider how well-being sits in relation to your creativity and writing practice.

Please note that lunch is not included. However, workshop participants can purchase food and refreshments during the lunch break.  

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP LEADERS

Dr Sherezade García Rangel is a writer, researcher and podcaster who teaches Creative Writing at Lincoln. She is the award-winning founder, producer and host of On The Hill podcast, producer of Everyday Peacebuilding through the Arts (MAP Podcast) and co-producer of On Silence (The Lincoln Review). As a Research Fellow at the Wiley Digital Archives (Royal Geographic Society) she studied representations of Venezuela in colonial records. Her work has appeared in Transnational Literature’s ‘New Voices: Ones to Watch,’ Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies, Writing in Practice, Lighting Birds (Stellaria Media), Gutter Magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn and others. Her novel, The Wounded Me, will be published by Blackwater Press in 2025. Her interests include dark economies, archival research, narrative podcasting, international literary fiction, magical realism and unusual creative non-fiction.

Daniele Pantano is a poet, essayist, literary translator, and artist. He has published over thirty books, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages and featured in various international journals and magazines, including Conjunctions, Evergreen Review, Guernica, Harper’s Magazine, International Poetry, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Poetry in Translation, Plume, Poetry Daily, Poetry London, 3:AM Magazine, and 32 Poems. Pantano’s most recent books are Home for Difficult Children: A Memoir in Verse (Black Lawrence Press), Robert Walser: The Poems (Seagull Books), and The Damned: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Broken Sleep Books). He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) of Creative Writing as well as Programme Leader for the MA Creative Writing and Co-Director of the MFA Creative Writing & Publishing at the University of Lincoln. For more information, please visit www.pantano.ch.

MINDFUL PAPER CRAFTING WORKSHOPS
Tickets: £49
Explore the benefits of paper crafting on mental health while making two different paper projects designed in mind with well-being.
Please note that lunch is not included. However, workshop participants can purchase food and refreshments during the lunch break

Two unique projects will be taught by Leonie Pujol and Paula Pascual, both renowned paper crafters and authors with over two decades of experience as craft tutors. 

On the day, there will be two sessions, a morning and an afternoon session, in each a different project will be taught step by step. All materials and specific tools will be provided. 

CRAFTING WORKSHOP LEADERS

Leonie Pujol is a crafter, tutor, author, and TV presenter. You can watch her on Hobbymaker as well as on Youtube and other social media platforms. Leonie started with a simple love of making things since childhood. As she grew up, this increased into her wanting it to develop into a business, so she started to travel around the country doing craft fairs with her sister. A job at a craft shop in Lancashire soon followed, as well as multiple magazine articles, book deals, teaching at retreats, and more. One thing led to another, and Leonie ended up demonstrating and selling craft products on QVC as part of the Dawn Bibby team. From there, Leonie became a presenter at Create and Craft, the first Craft TV shopping channel in the world. Leonie has stayed in the craft tv industry but moved channels to work at other channels, currently demonstrating her own company (Art Inspirations) as well as others. Leonie also consults, designs, and demonstrates for AALL & Create, a leading manufacturer of stamps, stencils, and other mixed media craft products.

Paula Pascual is a paper craft designer, tutor, and author. You can watch her on Hobbymaker as well as on Youtube and other social media platforms. Like many other crafters, Paula's love of crafting started in childhood, heavily influenced by her artist dad's studio full of papers back in her native Spain. The move to the UK in 2002 meant the opening of a professional crafting career, which started at a local craft shop teaching and guiding crafters on techniques and products. Magazine articles, five books, and product design soon followed, as well as the opportunity to join Leonie and Dawn Bibby on QVC mostly behind the scenes. Paula has worked with companies like SIzzix, Tonic Studios, and more, and she was part of the TV presenting team at Hochanda and Create and Craft. Currently, Paula works with Lisa Horton Crafts developing craft products as well as part of the education promotional side of the company.