Sarah Jackson

What I do

I offer friendly, supportive, and trauma-sensitive writing workshops and classes on a range of topics, from feelings to fairies.

I aim for my workshops to be encouraging, entertaining, and inclusive. I try to balance craft insights or theory with reading examples from other authors, plus games, prompts, and exercises to get people writing.

I'm especially interested in how we can use speculative fiction as a route to explore and express ourselves and share our emotional truths.

What people say

• "Clearly you're a skilled and experienced teacher. Your positivity and appreciation of all comments and contributions was fantastic, important and surprisingly rare."
• "The prompts were amazing—very generative, specific yet flexible. I have several story ideas now."
• "I really appreciate how you made the workshop a safe space with trigger warnings, not forcing people to share or speak."
• "This was phenomenal and I will definitely be recommending it to colleagues!"
• "This has been an AMAZING workshop. Thank you so much for the wonderful timing, commentary, background material, enthusiasm. Loved the balance of information/writing. THANK YOU!"

About me

I'm Sarah Jackson, a writer living on the edge of Epping Forest in London, UK.

My speculative short stories, flash fiction, and poems have been published in magazines and anthologies including Strange Horizons, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Electric Spec, Wyldblood Magazine, and Tales From Between.

The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories, a collection of my most uncanny fiction, is now available to buy from most of the usual places.

I'm also the editor of Inner Worlds, a quarterly speculative fiction zine about our inner lives.

I've been delivering successful in-person and online classes, talks, and workshops for individuals, charities, community groups, and schools for over a decade.

Before that, I studied MSc Gender, Sexuality, Politics & Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, and BA English Literature at King's College, University of Cambridge.

I'm a certified Write Your Self trauma-sensitive writing guide, a member of Lapidus International and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), and I have a Level 4 Certificate in Counselling Skills from Warwick University Centre for Lifelong Learning. I'm fully insured as a creative writing teacher via the NAWE Professional Membership Scheme.