“Luke’s visit exceeded expectations. The whole day was awesome.”
Beechen CLiff School, Bath
Luke is an experienced reader and a dynamic workshop leader and can provide a number of bespoke services to schools, libraries, literature festivals or other settings. He has read or spoken at The Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2021, The Verve Poetry Festival 2022, YALC (Young Adult Literature Convention) 2022, and a growing number of schools and colleges.
“Students were engaged from the moment they met Luke”
Churchdown literature festival
With almost two decades spent in classrooms, Luke is able to engage and communicate with young people across the age and ability spectrum and has the flexibility to design workshops for your setting. These can work as stand-alone sessions or, paired with an author talk, can provide a full day of immersive creativity. If you want to book Luke for a whole day, half day or just a single session, or for any other appearance, please email luke@lukepalmerwriting.com or use the ‘contact’ form on this site.
Luke has created a set of resources (suitable for upper KS3 and KS4 students) to accompany his novel, Grow. You can find them here. You can also view his Contact An Author page here.


