CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.

Tag: contest

  • Poetry’s Exploration by Pascal Lockwood-Villa

    Poetry has always been a cornerstone of every Creative Writer’s repertoire. This year, there is no exception. Every school year, there has always been a unit on poetry, which would be capped off by a performance sometime in the late months of Fall. Despite this,  these units have not once had complaints raised against them…

  • One of the earliest units Creative Writing delved into this semester was an “art unit” taught by Ronald Chase, where he helped us understand the changing landscape, subject, and techniques of art, and taught us ways in which we communicate about art. Why use, “I just don’t like it very much,” when you can go…

  • Unstuck is hosting an entry fee-free micro-lit contest for all their followers on Twitter! Fiction, poetry, and non-fiction entries can be entered in exactly twelve tweets, each with 140 words or less, and the winning pieces will be posted in UnstuckMag‘s Twitter feed. The theme is Lovemarks, so for all of you micro-fiction, micro-poetry, micro-essay…

  • Anybody who feels like they’ve got a funny, moving, or interesting take on the holidays, submit to this contest- there’s no entrance fee, hurray! http://www.ramsfieldpress.com/holiday-writing-contest.html Holiday Writing Contest 1. Write a short piece about a year end holiday celebration. It can be Christmas, Thanksgiving, Chaunakkah, Kwanza, New Year’s, the Soltice, or whatever holiday you celebrate.…