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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  • The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

  • The year: 2009 The event:  Umlaut Release Party at McSweeneys photos by Willem Yarborough

  • Thursday, April 5th 7:30-9:30 826 Valencia, the pirate store Come celebrate the release of the new issue of SotA’s literary journal: umläut, featuring the best interdisciplinary work the school has to offer! For students, by students!Food! Live music! Readings from the 2012 issue of umlaut, Even-Toed Ungulate! Raffle! Join us for a fun night deep below the sea,…

  • PLAY ON WORDS: 10 MINUTE PLAYS Friday, April 20 at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 pm Adults: $15; Students/Seniors: $10 Save $2 when you purchase online Dan Kryston Memorial Theater Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts [map] This year’s playwriting showcase features one-act plays written, staged, and interpreted entirely by SOTA’s Creative…

  •     release party! april 5th 7:30 pm 826 valencia  san francisco click here to learn more about our literary journal

  • Inspiration, Imagination, Expression200 Masterworks from the Senior Class Thursday, March 15, 5:30 PM Squeri and Pannone Galleries Main Building, Third Floor Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts 555 Portola, San Francisco, CA 94131   Inspiration, Imagination, Expression highlights work by the Visual Art Department’s senior students.  The exhibition features some 200 original works…

  •   Friday 17: Cine/Club: Randall Museum Jean Pierre Melville’s THE ARMY OF SHADOWS (1995, France) Another film that fills you in on some of the fascinating events of WWII that may not be covered in your social studies class. In this case, the French Resistance: a group of unusual French citizens working to sabotage the…

  • Saturday February 18, 2012 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Cheney St. San Francisco (415) 586-3733 GIRLCHILD Join debut novelist Tupelo Hassman for a book launch party, with live music “Life is a crazy risk, a foolish venture, a journey hardly worth attempting by poor daughters raised by poor…

  • Sat. Feb. 18, 2012 ~ 12:30 pm Sun. Feb. 19, 2012 – 5:00 pm Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street San Francisco (415)863-1087 San Francisco Premiere – San Francisco Independent Film Festival Deaf Jam This highly acclaimed doc follows deaf teen, Aneta Brodski, an Israeli immigrant, who attends a school for the Deaf in Queens and inhabits…