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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Junior Giorgia Peckman is going to be published in The Ilanot Review. Congrats! That’s the Chicago way.
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by Luca (’16) Wes Anderson’s movies are charming and colorful, albeit very similar. They have funny captions, dysfunctional families, and mysterious narrators. But they all have a marvelous take-away feeling: the sensation of being warmed up inside. All his tales leave us with the need to enlighten everybody who hasn’t seen a Wes Anderson film,…
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by Josie (’16) With each coming school year, there is more and more concern over the state of San Francisco’s public education. Whether it is the budget or number of kids failing to graduate, there always seem to be problems with public education. As a high school student involved with the public school system, I…
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by Giorgia (’14) (Last year, when the class of ’14 were sophomores, CWI studied groups of Movements throughout history, and on top of writing responses to each Movement, reflected on each group’s causes, characteristics, and effects in the poetry of the modern world.) In creative writing I find we often have a very narrow view…
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Come on, C-Dubs, let’s show Bennington College what we are about. Enter this national contest for young writers. Besides accolades and notoriety, there is a nice cash prize. Hurry though, the deadline is November 1st, 2012. Click here for details: bennington.edu
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We just got confirmation that we’ll have a last-minute guest tomorrow during CW! Before he appears in an event at City Lights tomorrow night, the editor of The Paris Review, Lorin Stein, is going to come to our class to talk about his work as an editor, writer, and translator. He’s also somewhat of a…
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Two weeks ago, the Creative Writers gathered to decide on a theme for our first show of the year. A lot of our ideas had in common—from the Pussy Riot in Russia to the ban on ethnic studies classes in Arizona—the occurrences of censorship happening around the world. Of course this would be the case.…
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Did you know that there is a Banned Books Week? It takes place September 30th through October 6th. The San Francisco Public Library and Banned-by-the-Bay are included in the local groups who celebrate banned books week. The most interesting event of the week is the Naked Girls reading: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Naked Girls Reading…
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Playwriting contest from GOLDENTHREAD.ORG
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July 26th-29th Poets, both emerging and established, gather in San Francisco from around the world to participate in four days of free poetry, workshops and music at various venues around the city. Go to sfipf.org to get all the details.
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