PAT WINSLOW
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Humanist celebrant since 2012​
See Pat's work with Humanists UK

Current work and a glimpse into the pipeline...

Further multi-arts work with people living with dementia

Storytelling commemorating the 20th anniversary of the planting and formal opening of Breach Wood, Hailey
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​A novel and a new poetry collection
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Previous posts, residencies and collaborations

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2022
A Walk Through Nature – commissioned poems for booklet

Outside the Box – multi-arts research project with people living with dementia
 
2021                
Thame Meadow Trail with artist Nicola Henshaw – storytelling and making with art installations

Creating with Care – multi-arts project across Oxfordshire’s six community hospitals

Smile Inside at Witney – commissioned poem responding to patients' and NHS staff's experiences of the pandemic

Commissioned poems for artist Diana Bell’s Nature Unlocked celebrating a year of Oxfordshire lockdown walks 

                 
2020 - 21
Poetry workshops with home schooled children aged 5 – 11  (on-line throughout the pandemic)

2020
Smile Inside project - two iID commissioned poems responding to self-isolating participants' stories, including a filmpoem with videographer Peter Anderson.

'Kamdenge!' A play based on a Ugandan folk tale inspired by BK-LUWO's Filda Abelkec, devised, written and performed by Kirtlington Primary School with Oxford Concert Party
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2019
Collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on version II of 'The Coat' for the Royal College of Music

Storytelling at the Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Café

2015 - 2019
​Creative Future Literary Awards Workshop Facilitator - nationwide writing workshops for under-represented writers 

2018
The Travels of St. Cecilia - a cantata with Arne Richards of Oxford Concert Party celebrating Oxford's six twinning partnerships

​Storytelling at The Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Cafe

​Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - public poetry workshops and story-making and readings at Pitt Rivers Museum and The Old Fire Station
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​Syrian Sisters - a multi arts project in Oxford with Syrian refugee children using poetry, storytelling, music, dance and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and change
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​2017
Poetry and storytelling workshops ​in Witney Hospital

‘Waving Hello’ – a multi-arts inter-generational project with Oxfordshire primary schools, Campsfield House IRC and BK-LUWO, an Oxford-based women refugees group using poetry, storytelling, music and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and asylum
 
Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - poetry workshops and readings in Bonn, Germany 

2015 - 2017    
Poetry Practitioner, Making of Me (Arts and Older People in Care Programme)

2016   
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational project with Dr Souths CE Primary, a local OAP lunch club and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

​‘The Coat’ – a collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on a musical presentation of a story – Cambridge Divinity School

2015   
Storytelling at Kidlington ‘Friendly Faces’
 
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational music and poetry project with Kingsmoor Club, Buckland CE Primary and the Ashmolean Museum
 
Storytelling at the Memory Cafe in the Corn Exchange, Newbury

Storytelling at Carterton Community College and Carterton Primary School - training Year 10 to deliver stories to Years 3 and 4

Storytelling at Witney Food Festival
 
2014   
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for Crisis and the Ashmolean Museum
 
2006 – 2013   
Writer in Residence at HMP Long Lartin
                        
2011 – 2012   
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party - poetry, music and inter-generational projects in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

2011               
Voices from the Dark, Eve Women’s Wellbeing Project  - writing and theatre project

2004 – 2011   
Chipping Norton Theatre, creative writing tutor

2004 – 2008   
Ithaca, arts projects worker - reminiscence and intergenerational projects using film, music, photography, drama and creative writing
 
2003 – 2004   
Oxford Social Services/OYAP - two scriptwriting/ filming projects with young people leaving care

2003 – 2006   
MAP project worker with young people at risk in Oxfordshire – using film, drama, music, creative writing, photography, sculpture etc.

1995 – 2002   
Wigan Youth Service - Poets Ink, young performance poets - facilitator

1991 – 2002   
Salford Women Writers, workshop facilitator

2000 – 2002   
Manchester Survivors Poetry, workshop facilitator

2000 – 2002   
North and South Manchester Hospitals, Writer in Residence

1999               
Hospital Arts, Greater Manchester (later LIME) workshop leader - arts projects in day centres for people using mental health services

1997 – 1998   
Manchester Alcohol Services, Writer in Residence

1994 – 1995   
Action Factory, project worker - reminiscence and publishing projects across the UK

1990 – 1994   
WEA creative writing tutor, Manchester and Salford

1990   
North West Shape, Eldon Street Community Centre and Castle Hill Primary, Bolton - inter-generational writing and oral history project
 
1988 – 1990   
North West Shape, Collyhurst Community Centre, writing workshops for elders with publications and readings

1988 – 1989   
3D project - Asian Elders, Lilian Hamer House, Brandwood School, Bolton - inter-generational and multi-arts project focusing on journeys and histories

North West Shape, drama workshop leader Open Door Project, Trafford, for people with learning difficulties

1983 – 1987   
Pit Prop Theatre, Leigh - actor 

1982 – 1983   
Red Ladder, Leeds - actor

1981               
The Apollo, London - actor

1981               
Oldham Coliseum – actor

1978 - 1981    
M6 Theatre, Rochdale – actor

1977 – 1978   
Theatre Centre, London – actor

1977               
Library Theatre, Manchester - actor

1976               
Dundee Rep   - actor 

1975 – 1976   
​Interplay Theatre in Education, Belfast - actor



Key academic posts

2013 – 2014   
Visiting tutor, Ruskin College Creative Writing department
 
1995 – 2002   
University of Bolton, tutor​ BA and MA Poetry, Fiction and Writing for Performance modules 


Published work

Poetry

​​Kissing Bones – Templar Poetry, 2012
Unpredictable Geometry – Templar Poetry, 2008
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves – Templar Poetry, 2007
Skin & Dust – Blinking Eye, 2004
The Girl in the Iron Lung - Crocus, 2003
The Fact of an Eye - Amazing Colossal, 1996
Harvest - Jackson’s Arm, 1994
Five Women Poets - Crocus, 1993
Beyond Paradise - Crocus, 1990
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Fiction

To Hull and Back Short Story Competition Anthology 2018 - ed. Christopher Fielden
Parenthesis – Comma Press, 2006
Transmission – 2005
Bridport Prize anthology - 1999
guest writer for Queer Words 2 -1995
in Queer Words 1 and 3 - 1995 and 1996
Bridport Prize anthology 1994
No Limits - Crocus, 1994
Herzone - Crocus, 1991

Single poems and collections of poems have also appeared in many journals including Brando's Hat, the Interpreter's House, Iota, Leviathan Quarterly, Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry London, Poetry News, PROP, Stand, the Rialto, Rain Dog, Tandem. Pat has done radio broadcasts and given readings in Britain, Ireland, Germany and the USA. She was a winner of the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Award in 1996.  Her short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies. Articles have appeared in Poetry News and Warwick Review and fiction reviews in IOTA.  

Awards

Poetry London Prize 2020; Artlyst 2020; ​STANZA 2017; Strokestown 2015; Magma 2015; Café Writers 2015; Wilfred Owen 2014; Guernsey International 2013; Torbay Open 2013; Keats-Shelley 2012; Rialto 2012; Strokestown 2011; Poetry London 2011; Bedford 2010; Stafford Open 2010; Keats-Shelley 2010; Bridport, Academi, Kent & Sussex, BBC Alfred Bradley Award...
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Voluntary work

Management and Publications Subcommittees of Commonword, Manchester
Bolton Lesbian Line, an advice and information service for lesbians
 

Keeping safe

DBS Update Service Disclosure No: 001477123268             DOB: 13th February 1954
Public liability insurance to £5,000,000
CTC cleared
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Relevant skills and interests

Full clean driving licence
Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, PageMaker, Photoshop, iMovie, Audible – I can get my head around just about anything
I play the ukulele with great gusto and some tune!
Pen and ink drawing
Art, photography, history, music, cycling, camping...
Languages - I speak French and a bit of German. I'm also learning Gaelic.
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Education history

2011         
German – private lessons – continuation intermediate Abingdon College, German Beginners and Intermediate

1990       
Bolton College, Maths GCSE, SEB - grade A

1989       
Bolton College, French A level, JMB – grade B

1988               
Bolton College, French GCSE, NEA– grade A

1972 - 1975   
Manchester Polytechnic Diploma in Theatre 2:2

1972               
Bishop Douglass Comprehensive
English Lit A level, London – grade A
Art A level, London – grade E

1970                           
English Language O Level, Oxford – grade 2
English Lit O Level, Oxford – grade 3
History O Level, Oxford – grade 4
Religious Knowledge O Level, Oxford – grade 5

1969               
​Biology O Level, Oxford - grade 6
Art O level, Oxford – grade 2
 

References

Jude Barratt
Education Officer for Adults and Young People
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH
 
Jude.Barrett@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
01865 288078
 

 Arne Richards
Oxford Concert Party Ltd.
18 Greenfield Crescent
Stonesfield
Oxon. OX29 8EH
 
01865 806497
44 (0) 7788 174785
arne@oxfordconcertparty.org
 

Clive Hopwood
Writers in Prisons Foundation
PO Box 71
Welshpool
SY21 0WB
 
01938 810402
07814274472
wipn@btinternet.com


Prof. Jon Glover                                             
Humanities Department                                
The University of Bolton                               
Deane Road                                                   
Bolton BL3 5AB                                             
                                                                       
01204 900600 ext. 3235                                
jg5@bolton.ac.uk      
 
 

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