My writing workshops make space for curiosity, conversation, and attention, helping people discover what interests them and how it might find its own form in language.
I work with schools, libraries, festivals, and community groups. Workshops can begin with literature, myth, or shared reading, or emerge from memory, observation, place, and everyday experience.
Each session is shaped around the group, whether we are exploring a particular text, responding to a curriculum topic, or approaching writing more freely.
My aim is to help people develop confidence and a relationship to writing that feels personal and sustainable. There is time to explore, share ideas, and stay with an image or thought long enough for something unexpected to emerge.
Writing Workshop
A single workshop for schools, libraries, festivals,
and community groups.
60 minutes · £150
Extended Writing Workshop
A longer session allowing greater space for
discussion, shared reading, individual guidance, and
the development of writing over the course of a
morning or afternoon.
120 minutes · £250
If you'd like to discuss a workshop, visit, or possible collaboration, you're very welcome to get in touch.
Please send enquiries with the subject WORKSHOPS to:
contact@maxthackara.uk
Practical Information
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
Enhanced DBS
Safeguarding trained
Summer 2026
Three creative writing workshops, including a session responding to students’ work on myth, a more freeform workshop, and a session with the school’s journalism club.
The visits included the school’s July literary festival.
About the school’s literary festival