Summer Workshops

We will open registration for 2026 in February. For more information, please email kate@essayscomposed.com!

 

SUMMER: UC/PERSONAL STATEMENT WORKSHOP

This is a two-day workshop designed to get students fully launched with their college application essays! It includes:

  • introduction to the writing portions of both the UC and Common App

  • review and analysis of UC and personal statement examples

  • writing activities to practice different approaches to application writing

  • topic generation exercises to brainstorm, narrow, and confirm topics for all five “big” essays (four UCs and one Common App)

  • two one-on-one meetings with a writing specialist to confirm each student’s essay topics and create an initial writing plan

  • writing time

  • a three-hour Stay Composed interactive editing session to review drafts (included in the workshop price!)

  • detailed summary of workshop for parents

  • monthly newsletters

SUMMER 2026 WORKSHOP DATES


1. Sat, June 13 - Sun, June 14, 11a - 3p
2. Sat, June 20 - Sun, June 21, 11a - 3p
3. Sat, June 27 - Sun, June 28, 11a - 3p
4. July workshop (dates TBD)
5. August workshop (dates TBD)
6. August workshop (dates TBD)

This year, all workshops are taught by Kate. They are in-person (outdoors in North Oakland on a shaded patio).

Want to choose your own date?

  1. You may recruit a group of a minimum of 4 students and propose date options, and we will do our best to accommodate you! Email kate@essayscomposed.com for more information.

*workshops require a minimum of four students and are capped at eight students

Register For a Workshop!

STAY COMPOSED (INTERACTIVE EDITING SESSIONS)

In these two-hour writing sessions, students work on any essays they have in progress, and a writing specialist reads and comments on their work in real time, allowing them to revise instantly. Using this technique, students often complete three to five drafts in a single session. (Two to four students max per session.)