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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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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DAVE EGGERS Booksigning at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza San Francisco Events Start: 07/17/2012 12:00 pm Bestselling author, DAVE EGGERS will sign his latest novel, Hologram for the King, one man’s fight to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. 15% of the sale of each…
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The Poets & Writers website offers a useful repository of information for, well, poets and writers. There are several “legitimate” writing competitions that have some fast-approaching July deadlines, so take a look and see if any are write for you. http://www.pw.org
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Have any of you experienced Streetopia SF? I’ve been out-of-the-loop as I just heard about this collection of art events on the radio yesterday. Streetopia SF involves street art, multi-media performances, poetry and the like. Tonight’s show includes local band Ruby Howl. Christine Shields and The Sea S w/ Ruby Howl 7: 30 PM @ Luggage…
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reposted from Craigslist: Saturday, June 23, is an afternoon poetry read in Bernal Heights. Red Hill Jumps! is an occasional spoken word gathering sponsored by The Commons SF. This time around we’re featuring Bernal resident poets. Open mic, $1 a poem. That is, poets are paid $1 a poem. Must live between Bayshore and Mission,…
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Led by Maia Ipp, CW Artist-in-Residence July 10—July 26 (3 weeks) Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 11 am—3 pm Class held at Maia’s apartment in North Beach and in locations around the city This summer workshop is an opportunity to exercise and deepen your writing practice over the summer in a more experimental and less formal…
