Writing Your College Essay: Creative Responses to the Common App (weekend)

    Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM until Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 1:00 PMUTC -04:00


    Sarah Lawrence College
    1 Mead Way
    Bronxville, NY 10708
    United States

    Instructor: Olivia Worden
    Saturdays, June 6 to June 20, 11:00am - 1:00pm  $240
     

    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, performance, facilitation, 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 embrace imperfections, to be fearless in self-exploration, and generous to themselves and others throughout the process of developing their unique artistic voices.  She is at work completing her first book of autofiction and has work forthcoming in CutBank Literary Journal. 

    Registration is no longer available because the event has been cancelled.