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.
Author: SOTA Creative Writing
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Since the end of my sophomore year, I was eagerly anticipating the day when I would finally become a member of Creative Writing 2, an intimate class featuring the juniors and seniors of CW, as well as an artist in-residence. Following the conclusion of this year’s poetry unit, I got my wish. After being in…
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I’ve recently learned that if you travel to Pluto, you would see what the earth looked like 10 years ago. So basically, you would travel back in time. It would all look the same, because ten years isn’t long enough to change so wildly that you can see it from 3.197 billion miles away, but…
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Our own Ren Weber, CW class of 2019, is being published in the New York Times! Her piece “Tiny Love Story” will run in the Modern Love column on Thursday the 30th. Ren has also recently been published in The Rumpus, a short story called Wild Animals written when Ren was 16 and a student…
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Every year the Creative Writing department of the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts puts on a show of plays written and performed by its students. Due to the COVID19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders, the 2020 show was produced instead as a reading over Zoom.
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I write this blog post from a cafe in Mammoth Lakes, CA, having just completed the final step in my applying to college, a visit to a ranch out in the White Mountains for an interview. When I embarked on this process, I had no idea how completely Creative Writing would shape my ability to…
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On Saturday, I participated in my first Ethics Bowl competition. Ethics Bowl is an event in which teams from various schools discuss the moral dimensions and values of certain set situations. For instance, one of the cases tackled the question of whether it was morally praiseworthy, as a billionaire, to donate more to the rebuilding…
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Although our sixteen-day break to split the year in two comes as a relief, we are always assigned some sort of writing practice for Creative Writing. This year, the junior class was to read ten short stories by differing authors, followed by writing a seven-page short story in the style of one of said authors.…
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Before high school, the poetry I wrote mirrored a clothing splurge at your local thrift store; completed on a last-minute whim, and never looked at nor used again. If one were to pay close attention to my lack of prowess in the art of metaphors displayed above, they might perhaps understand why exactly my early…
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Recently, Creative Writing concluded its poetry unit, leaving me reflecting on my new perceptions of poetry. Throughout the unit in Creative Writing I, the many steps of poetry revision became apparent as we revised the same poems over and over. We generated poems from in-class prompts and homework assignments, and were expected to revise independently.…
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“Make America Great Again!TM” is an newer rendering of Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan, “Let’s Make America Great Again,” and was Donald Trump’s successful campaign slogan in 2016. Trump patented the phrase, so it technically bears a trademark. It has appeared on campaign posters, shirts, buttons, and most notably the iconic red trucker cap. The…
