Camp Completion: Writing the College Essay
Are you (or your child) looking for help on a college admissions essay? Would you like to support a great cause at the same time?
Camp Completion is a college essay workshop designed to help students find their voices in the noisy and competitive world of college admissions. In this three hour session students will develop the skills necessary to write a first draft of the college essay. During the course of this workshop, students will generate an essay topic, write a first draft, and receive feedback from instructors with more than twenty years of experience.
For a $250 charitable contribution to Good Contrivance Farm, students will be invited to participate in a generative 3-hour workshop with educators and Good Contrivance Farm board members Khaliah Williams and Liz Hazen.
Information & Registration
When:
The workshop will take place on September 20, 2026 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where:
We will meet in The Schoolhouse at Good Contrivance Farm, 2015 Emory Road, Reisterstown, MD 21136
How to Participate – Registration, Payment & Scheduling
Step 1 – Donate: Make your $250 charitable contribution to Good Contrivance Farm here: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=9LAPGLC5UJ4ZQ
Step 2 – Proof of contribution: Please download or screenshot your charitable donation receipt.
Step 3 – Register using Google Forms: Once you’ve made your charitable donation to Good Contrivance Farm, please fill out this Google form where you can upload your information and your donation receipt. Register here: https://forms.gle/KQWA8siB5nxyJmG39
About Khaliah:
Khaliah Williams is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Her fiction has been published in the Hawaii Women’s Journal, Frontier Psychiatrist, Day One, and The Hopkins Review. You can read her non-fiction at Buzzfeed, American Short Fiction, Salon, and elsewhere.
Khaliah has over twenty years of experience in college admissions and counseling serving students in public and independent schools. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two very decorative cats, where she is hard at work on a novel about the intersection of class, race, college admissions, and independent schools.
Khaliah also serves on the board of Good Contrivance Farm and 100% of proceeds raised via this workshop will go to Good Contrivance Farm to support its mission of preserving its historic farm property for future generations while offering affordable residency space, workshops, and free craft talks to the public.
About Liz:
Liz Hazen is a poet and essayist with 25 years of teaching experience in both secondary and college-level classrooms. She has taught English and creative writing courses at Maryvale Preparatory School, Calvert School, Carver Center, Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Loyola. She currently teaches poetry at Roxbury Correctional Institution through the Goucher Prison Education Partnership and at the International Writers’ Collective.
In addition to teaching, she freelances as a writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, and she has published three collections of poetry: Chaos Theories (2016), Girls Like Us (2020), and The Sky Will Hold (2026).
Liz is also serves as treasurer on the board at Good Contrivance Farm, and 100% of proceeds raised via this workshop will go to Good Contrivance Farm to support its mission of preserving its historic farm property for future generations while offering affordable residency space, workshops, and free craft talks to the public.