Yes, You Do Have a Story To Tell: A Creative Lab for College App Essay Writers

Drawing on more than a decade of coaching young writers through thousands of essays, Allan Reeder, Hillside Writing’s founder, helps attendees to see the college-app essay as an opportunity for self-discovery. The most effective, memorable essays develop through an organic process of building from the specific details of the writer’s experience. Allan teaches students how to shape memory into material. The process positions students to write what only they can write, and to ask the questions that reveal the value of their experiences.