Instructor: Olivia Worden
Length: 3 sessions, $295
Saturdays, November 7, 21, and December 5
4:00pm-6:30pm
 
In this workshop, we’ll explore how to develop and write a comprehensive and creative college application essay.  Using material generated through prompts that address: memory, scene, dialogue, perspective, voice, and structure, students will compose a response to one of the Common Application questions.  We’ll also read and discuss examples of personal essay and cross-genre writing to investigate topics of narrative, theme, and personal reflection.  In addition, students will have the opportunity to workshop their essays, as well as consult individually with the instructor.  As a class we will get a little messy, take some risks, find the fun, and ultimately, write a piece that best represents who we are. 
 
Olivia Worden (BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MFA Sarah Lawrence College) is a writer, teacher, college essay tutor, and diversity trainer from Dartmouth, Massachusetts.  She has a background in both Admissions and Student Affairs from her time at Roger Williams University.  She has taught poetry, fiction, and college application essay writing in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.  She encourages her students to observe and question both large and small things, to be fearless in self-exploration, and generous to themselves and others throughout the process of developing their unique artistic voices.  She has work featured or forthcoming in CutBank Literary Journal and Post Road Magazine.