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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In the last few months, I have endeavored to find and read all of my favorite childhood books. This began on a family camping trip over a long weekend where I read my younger brother Matilda next to our campfire in the evenings. I enjoyed doing this so much that I continued to read to…
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CW’s own Juli Roll, as San Francisco champion of the annual Poetry Out Loud competition, is appearing onstage tonight at the Mechanic’s Library with California’s Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia, at an event celebrating National Poetry Month. From the Mechanic’s Library Website: Mechanics’ Institute is honored to welcome consummate poet and arts advocate Dana Gioia as…
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Join the Creative Writing Department on February 23rd at 6PM for a night of poetry and fiction at Alley Cat Bookshop in the Mission. We will be reading till we drop as we raise money to travel to New Orleans this spring and attend literary festivals while creating new artistic connections to NOLA’s writing community.…
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Written in response to the CW trip to the new SFMOMA a confusion of the senses. the painting looks like a song called taxi cab, like the sound of metal clinking against teeth, like what I wish I looked like from the inside. splattered. new. it’s art in its most basic form – as many…
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For the past month, Creative Writing has been in our poetry unit. In this unit, the sophomores have each taught a one-to-two day lesson surrounding their culture. This unit has been enchanting and delightful. Each new theme has been refreshing and taught me something new. I have been able to explore new cultures and writing…
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The beginning of the school year was filled with outings, such as going to the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Bay. These were to bring us closer together and build friendships between the Creative Writers. On the Friday of the second week of school, the Creative Writing Department ventured to the tip…
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My family celebrates Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa over the winter holidays. We’ve taken to calling this mix match of holidays Christmachanukwanzakah, and I haven’t yet encountered another family who celebrates all three. In fact, many of my friends don’t know what Kwanzaa is. It is an African-American holiday not affiliated with any religion, and I’ve…
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“I am an artist, an anti-artist, no shrinking ego, modest, a feminist, a profound misogynist, a romantic, a realist, a surrealist, a funk artist, conceptual artist, minimalist, postmodernist, beatnik, hippie, punk, subtle, confrontational, believable, paranoiac, courteous, difficult, forthright, impossible to work with, accessible, obscure, precise, calm, contrary, elusive, spiritual, profane, a Renaissance man of contemporary…
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About Good Books to Follow And the Writing of Them Of Finn McCool of county Antrim it is said he was a giant, but I never imagine that he was very big at all, for it is not his strength that is intimidating, but instead his wit and his broth that stirred within him from…
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I had been thinking about endings as this year’s first semester came to a close. I was relieved, but not satisfied. It was the last period of the last day and I stood in the center of the Creative Writing room, desks sloppily pushed together and a sole candle quivering in the corner of a…
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