SCHEDULE YOUR ELLIPSIS CREATIVE WRITING CONSULTATION!

We are currently OPEN to new students for Creative Writing Tutoring. Kickstart your Ellipsis Journey by scheduling a free consultation with the below form.

Following the consultation, if we’ve established a mutual fit, we will reach out to craft an individualized plan based on your goals for you or the student(s) in your life!

THE ELLIPSIS CREATIVE WRITING JOURNEY

  • One of the keys to writing advancement is intention. Through the active reading, drafting, and revising processes, we will evaluate and internalize how writers like Ocean Vuong, K-Ming Chang, and infinitely more intentionally craft moving pieces that capture readers’ minds and hearts. (Think: line break, specificity, perspective, endings, and more!) And simultaneously, we’ll turn to your existing — and new! — work to intentionally drive your work forward.

  • Already got a handle on craft? No problem — we meet students where they are and get to work. We love reviewing both existing and fresh drafts and discussing both general and specific opportunities for growth. In addition to line-by-line edits, you’ll also receive thought-provoking questions that deepen your convictions throughout your writing process, taste, and even mission.

  • We’ve got our fingers on the pulses of the most prestigious summer programs for young writers in the world and we know you probably do, too! Each cycle, we work with students on both application essays and writing samples to help them confidently put their best feet forward when it comes to application to leading programs like the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, the Kelly Writers House’s Summer Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, and more.

  • Once your work is ready for primetime, we’ll guide you through the process of submission to both student and non-student writing contests like the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National YoungArts Awards, Best New Poets, and more. We will also help you navigate the intimidating process of publication, offering a healthy list of prestigious and selective student and non-student publications that will elevate and distinguish your creative writing pursuit. If you don’t know what simultaneous submissions are or how to write a winning cover letter, we got you!

AVAILABLE SESSION BUNDLES

LEVEL ONE

Best for short-term students with a specific goal!

  • You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles. Please note that Peter LaBerge is only available for meetings with “Level Three” and above.

  • You will receive detailed comments and suggestions from Ellipsis Founder & CEO Peter LaBerge on up to three poems (max of five-pages single-spaced) or one piece/excerpt of prose (up to five pages double-spaced), which you may submit to competitions, contests, and/or colleges. Suggestions will range from overarching suggestions on tone, form, tense, and other craft-based elements to line-by-line comments and suggestions regarding specific images, phrasing, etc.

LEVEL TWO

  • Creative Writing: You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles. Please note that Peter LaBerge is only available for session hour meetings with “Level Three” and above.

  • You will receive detailed comments and suggestions from Ellipsis Founder & CEO Peter LaBerge on up to three poems (max of five-pages single-spaced) or one piece/excerpt of prose (up to five pages double-spaced), which you may submit to competitions, contests, and/or colleges. Suggestions will range from overarching suggestions on tone, form, tense, and other craft-based elements to line-by-line comments and suggestions regarding specific images, phrasing, etc.

  • Peter will review your portfolio and assemble submission pack of varying sizes to send to at least 25 reputable publications open to submissions.

LEVEL THREE

Best for students looking to fill summer with creative writing growth!

  • You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles.

  • You will receive detailed comments and suggestions from Ellipsis Founder & CEO Peter LaBerge on up to five poems (max of ten-pages single-spaced) or one piece/excerpt of prose (up to five pages double-spaced), which you may submit to competitions, contests, and/or colleges. Suggestions will range from overarching suggestions on tone, form, tense, and other craft-based elements to line-by-line comments and suggestions regarding specific images, phrasing, etc.

  • Peter will review your portfolio and assemble submission pack of varying sizes to send to at least 25 reputable publications open to submissions.

LEVEL THREE PLUS

Best for students looking to fill summer with creative writing growth!

  • You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles.

  • You will receive detailed comments and suggestions from Ellipsis Founder & CEO Peter LaBerge on up to five poems (max of ten-pages single-spaced) or one piece/excerpt of prose (up to ten pages double-spaced), which you may submit to competitions, contests, and/or colleges. Suggestions will range from overarching suggestions on tone, form, tense, and other craft-based elements to line-by-line comments and suggestions regarding specific images, phrasing, etc.

  • Peter will review your portfolio and assemble submission pack of varying sizes to send to at least 25 reputable publications open to submissions.

LEVEL FOUR

  • You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles.

    *Under the Level Four plan, a maximum of five session hours per week can be scheduled (excluding winter break and Scholastic Awards preparation weeks). Sessions may only be scheduled during winter, spring, summer, and fall one-on-one meeting seasons. Students must select one writing instructor — changes are subject to price fluctuation.

  • Whenever additional time is made available during periods of high demand, Level Four students will receive priority access to instructor schedules.

LEVEL FOUR PLUS

  • You will embark on a customized path of assignments, readings, and discussion defined by the following goal(s): personalized feedback, strategic contest preparation, literary initiative advising, analytical discussion, actualized publication strategy, and/or writing goal accountability.

    You can elect to use purchased session hours for synchronous meetings, asynchronous review of new or revised work, or a mix of both styles.

    *Under the Level Four Plus plan, a maximum of five session hours per week can be scheduled (excluding winter break and Scholastic Awards preparation weeks). Sessions may only be scheduled during winter, spring, summer, and fall one-on-one meeting seasons.

  • Whenever additional time is made available during periods of high demand, Level Four students will receive priority access to instructor schedules.

To purchase, please begin by scheduling a free consultation using the below form.

LEt’S GET YOU SCHEDULED.

  • “Writing with Ellipsis the past two years has been a totally game-changing experience. I don’t recognize the writer I was before. My resume is stronger than I ever thought it could be, and my toolkit is polished. I’m so ready for the next chapter.”

    Serena • Columbia University, ‘25

  • “I spent years wondering why my work wasn’t resonating with readers and editors the way I wanted it to. I got those answers—and so much more—working with Ellipsis.”

    Esther • Harvard College, ‘25

  • “Honestly, I look back at what I thought were final drafts—from back before I started working with Ellipsis—and I’m so grateful I refined them with Peter & Michael first. 10/10, I totally recommend working with Ellipsis!”

    Joy • Dartmouth College, ‘26

  • “In the past, it was easy to neglect my pursuit of writing because I didn’t know how to start. I can definitely, 100% say the literary world doesn’t seem so intimidating anymore!”

    Diana • Yale University, ‘24

  • “I’m so thrilled to see my daughter’s confidence in her candidacy and in the applications she sent off. She’s proudly heading to Dartmouth, but beyond that she feels prepared for the future. Thank you, Peter and Ellipsis!”

    Lauren • Dartmouth College (Parent), ‘26

  • “Peter LaBerge was a brilliant and knowledgeable tutor. My daughter’s writing improved by leaps and bounds through their meetings. I wish Ellipsis had been on our radar earlier!”

    Yingying • University of Pennsylvania (Parent), ‘23

  • “Ellipsis works miracles! Shoutout to Peter, Lisa, and Michael!”

    Anne • Yale University (Parent), ‘27

Featured Instructors

POETRY | ACADEMIC ESSAY | COLLEGE ADVISOR

PETER LABERGE

In addition to his role as founder and CEO of Ellipsis, Peter LaBerge is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such venues as AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and Tin House, among many others. Peter graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. in English and Consumer Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his M.F.A in Creative Writing from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.

His students are consistently recognized through the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Student Poets Program, the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, Princeton University, the Davidson Fellows Program, the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program, TASP, the Coke Scholars Program, the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Program, the GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program, and the Bryan Cameron Scholars Program, among many others. They’ve been featured at the White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the New York City Poetry Festival, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and by BBC News, the Boston Globe, Disney Channel, Teen Vogue, and the Wall Street Journal.

POETRY & PROSE | COLLEGE ADVISOR

SARA ELKAMEL

Sara Elkamel is a poet, journalist and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Elkamel's poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Yale Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was named a Gregory Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal, the winner of Redivider's 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, Tinderbox's 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize. Elkamel’s debut chapbook, “Field of No Justice,” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021.

POETRY & PROSE | COLLEGE ADVISOR

LISA HITON

Lisa Hiton is the author of Afterfeast, which was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Dorset Prize in Poetry. She holds degrees from Boston University and Harvard University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, LAMBDA Literary, The Paris-American, Linebreak, New South, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, and Denver Quarterly, among others. She has served as Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal and has been recognized as a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Best-in-Grade Educator. Currently, she is the Founder and Co-Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library and is a Visiting Associate Professor of English and Creative Writer in Residence at Lafayette College.

POETRY

SHANGYANG FANG

SHANGYANG FANG grew up in Chengdu, China, and writes both in English and Chinese. A Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, his works have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and have been anthologized in Forward Book of Poetry Anthology 2020, and The Best American Poetry 2022. He is the author of the poetry collection Burying the Mountain (Copper Canyon Press, 2021).

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