Our graduating seniors wrote dozens of individualistic, beautifully-crafted college essays at Writopia this year that helped college admissions teams get to know—and feel deeply connected to—them as people. I am excited to share two essays below because of the creative format the writers chose to employ and because of the high level of personal reflection …
Student Publication Highlights 2020-2021 Abey Weitzman won a Scholastic Silver Medal for his senior portfolio, “Disability.” Watch his powerful graduation speech below in which he mentions Writopia Lab. Analia Rivera had a piece accepted to Alphabet Soup. Carol Brahm-Robin published a review in Pank. Jordan Ferdman won the National YoungArts Foundation Merit Winner in Writing: Creative …
This has been such an incredible school year at Writopia across the country! We served over 5,000 invigorated kids and teens in safe space, censorship-free writing workshops at our labs, in schools, in partnership with community-based organizations, and at our sleepaway camp. Every day, we witnessed the key to effective writing instruction: inspiring student investment. Dozens …