In every culture there are mythological monsters that represent the experiences and fears of the community. In this workshop we are going to create our own monsters and place them in London to explore our fears and experiences of the city.

Recommended ages: Children 5+ and their families. There must be one adult for every two children.

Participants are going to cut and paste images of animals and London, and afterwards they are going to create collages of monsters in the city. They’ll write micro fictions to accompany the images in Spanish/English. The artworks are going to be part of the macro project ‘The Bestiary of London’, an artistic collection that documents in a surreal and creative way the experiences and fears of London communities by Karina Lickorish Quinn.

Karina Lickorish Quinn is a Peruvian-British writer and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University of London. Her debut novel The Dust Never Settles (Oneworld, 2021) explored Peru’s hauntedness by its colonial past. Her second book, a novella called The House of Skin (Stanchion, 2023) is a work of literary horror. Her second novel, The River Dies Quietly, will be published by Oneworld in 2025. Her short prose has been published widely including in Wasafiri, The White Review, The Offing, Palabritas, and the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. She was featured in Un Nuevo Sol, the first major anthology of British-Latinx writers. Karina is currently editing a special issue of Wasafiri on British Latinx writing and is working on her third novel and a short story collection.

This workshop will take place at the Main Hall of Conway Hall (main stage). Children must be supervised at all times.
Note: There’s a small stair to access the stage (5 steps). 

This activity is free for ticket’s holders of the London Spanish Book & Zine Fair.
Additionally, you must register to attend to the book fair to participate into this workshop Register to attend