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.

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Once upon a time, cats were lonely, so they wanted someone whose only purpose in existence was to love and cherish cats. Thus, the Creative Writers were born. Out of the glowing bundle of soft and squishy warmness and fluff was a stack of Post-It notes that absolutely adored cats. Cats named that stack Midori, and that was that.

Author: Midori

  • Public Library Resources

    SFPL Teen Programs for September: Free S.A.T. Prep Courses: Advance your score! Sign up for free classes at www.successlinktutoring.com/SFPL (Word of Senior, Mollie vouches for the quality of the prep course. From my own experience, even if you don’t think you need help on the SAT test subjects (writing, critical reading, and math), Prep Programs…

  • Mr. Fabrini’s Historical Film Society

    By Colin Yap (’16) I think that from the get go, there was a nervousness in my gut about going to the movie screening. There was all the normal trepidation present of new places and new people, but there was also my own irrational apprehension of seeing a black and white movie from nineteen-thirties Germany with two experienced film…

  • Cine/Club: In Heaven, They Speak the Hunsrück Dialect.

    By Nick Cloud (’15) Midori—Mykel—Olga—I greet you, my comrades! Yea, we have put them all to shame, have we not? My God, my God, but we have. Look upon us, ye low! Look, see how our spirits swell, tremble, with splendidness, see, we are arrayed in triumph, radiant more for the shadows below our eyes,…

  • Thursday Housekeeping

    There are a lot of things to cover today… First, how many Creative Writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I don’t know. Check the handbook. That’s right, folks, the new Creative Writing Handbook is hot off the printing press, so to speak. Freshmen will find this incredibly useful as your guide for…

  • Lockers, Lockers, Lockers

    Let me say that again for maximum emphasis: lockers. Lockers. Lockers. Here is the checklist: Emergency Card Green Locker Form Military Release Form (your parents DO NOT have to sign it) Free/Reduced School Meals Application Printout That link will take you where you need to be taken– fill out the survey, and at the very…

  • CW Bonding Day

    Senior Tuesday saw to the department-wide scavenger hunt, a CDub tradition that shall be upheld for years to come… Tomorrow, Juniors Wednesday. Epic won’t even begin to cover it.

  • SOTA Welcomes Us Back

    We hope you had a wonderful summer holiday and are ready for an exciting school year! Classes begin on Monday, August 20, 8 AM.

  • Congratulations, Giorgia!

    Congrats to junior Giorgia (alliteration? I think so) for the publication of her poem “The Coast” in Sugar Mule!

  • 826 Valencia Annual Write-A-Thon

  • Poetry Salon + Workshop

    August? I always see this coming in June, always tell myself “You gotta do your homework early because it’ll be August before you know it and school’s gonna start,” but always, always, August sneaks up on me. Segues are weird! Abigail and Nick are hosting another Poetry Salon, on August 6 at 10am, Abigail’s home.…