Coaching Services for Writers

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Devon O’Brien is an award-winning writer. Her passion is to assist you with your writing. 

Devon can help you…

  • discover what it is you want to say;

  • write it in a clear, compelling way; and

  • express yourself in a manner that is true to you.

Devon supports writers of every type, stripe and feather—novelists, memoirists, poets, playwrights, pilot writers, bloggers, and students—in any type of writing, whether they are assigned or independent projects.

Learn about her 5 Nights, 5 Tarts Writing Workshops HERE.

Focus on High School Seniors

One of Devon’s particular specialities is essay assistance—the art of the college essay. She helps students conceive, compose, craft and complete the Personal Statement on the Common Application for college. 

Working with Devon takes the stress out of the college essay process and helps place your application in the Yes pile. She works with students in person or electronically, via FaceTime or Skype. In the Los Angeles area alone, she has worked with seniors at most schools, including:

  • Archer

  • Brentwood

  • Campbell Hall

  • Crossroads

  • Episcopal School–LA

  • GALA

  • Geffen Academy

  • Hamilton

  • Harvard-Westlake

  • Immaculate Heart

  • Laces

  • Larchmont Charter School

  • Los Angeles County School of the Arts

  • Larchmont Charter School

  • Loyola

  • Marlborough

  • Marymount

  • New Roads

  • Oakwood

  • Pilgrim

  • Providence

  • Ramon C. Cortines

  • RenArts

  • Westridge

In addition, she has worked with students at schools all around the country, such as Deerfield Academy, Miss Porter’s and St. George’s. Devon works with students around the globe. She’s worked with students from Bermuda, Greece, Italy, Sweden and China.

Success Stories

Students with whom she has worked have been accepted at and chosen to attend: Amherst, Bard, Barnard, Bennington, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Colorado College, Columbia, Fordham, Hampshire, Haverford, MIT, Oberlin, Oregon, Redlands, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, Smith College, University of Chicago, University of the South, UCLA, UCSC, USC, Santa Clara, Smith, St. Andrews, Syracuse, Tufts, Tulane, Vassar, Wesleyan and Yale, among many others.