College Application Essay Writing Tutorial A one hour 1:1 session to draft either the common app essay or short answers with Elizabeth England. Your child and I will work on choosing subject matter, point-of-view, description, tone -- all the juicy elements of craft -- that will yield a can't-put-down written application. Elizabeth England  been taught fiction, creative non-fiction, and personal essays, for 20 years, and works with middle and high school students on high school and college application essays.  A recipient of a 1998 New York Foundation of the Arts Fiction Fellowship, her stories have appeared in the  Nebraska Review ,  North Atlantic Review ,  Berkshire Review  and the Connecticut Review .  She a contributing editor of Epiphany magazine.