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: Maya Litauer
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by Maya (’15) We spent Creative Writing today presenting rough drafts of scripts we had written in small groups for the show. This took, surprisingly, the entire period, but we gave each other helpful feedback and will continue to develop our scripts and ideas. We presented in the order that the “interludes” will appear in…
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by Maya Litauer (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit My writing practice is never what I want it to be. I constantly feel as though I could be doing more writing, more journaling, more editing, spending more time on my practice. I feel guilty all the time for not being my most-perfect self, for not putting…
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Congratulations to Maya Litauer (’15) for her publication in the About Place Journal: Visceral I am a soft body, wrap me in your glowing shroud and watch me sing. Bathe me in your salty sweat as we fade into the forest of skin. Our edges are sunset, out roots and our branches connect what we…
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by Maya (’15) When asked whom they most admire, many people would talk about famous artists whom they revere. I could do the same and write about Sylvia Plath or Margaret Atwood, but the truth is, I cannot fully admire someone I do not know. Because of this, I choose my brother, Julian, as the…
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Congratulations to Maya Litauer (’15), who is being published in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters. Look out for her poem “The Peach Fuzz Above Her Lip” in their 2012 Fall issue. Congrats!
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by Maya (’15) The poem “There Was a Child Went Forth” by Walt Whitman is about a boy who becomes everything he sees. All the things in nature that he glances upon become part of him, and they shape him as a person. He is becoming open and understanding the world more because he is…
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by Maya (’15) Last year, I was part of SOTA’s Mock Trial team. In Mock Trial, a group of students put on a trial and argue on the defense or prosecution side. We are provided with case materials which include a pre-trial argument, witness statements, stipulations, a list of objections, and a fact situation. Each…
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