CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

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Author: SOTA Creative Writing

  • Anybody who feels like they’ve got a funny, moving, or interesting take on the holidays, submit to this contest- there’s no entrance fee, hurray! http://www.ramsfieldpress.com/holiday-writing-contest.html Holiday Writing Contest 1. Write a short piece about a year end holiday celebration. It can be Christmas, Thanksgiving, Chaunakkah, Kwanza, New Year’s, the Soltice, or whatever holiday you celebrate.…

  • Scanners, the bookstore we all visited this past Tuesday, is holding a few events before it closes for good. The ones left: October 23, 5:00 pm Reading and the Brain Patricia Greenfield, Professor of Psychology, UCLA, on how reading affects human development and the brain. October 28, 6:30 pm D-L Alvarez and Colter Jacobsen An…

  • Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:30 Moe’s Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley (510/849-2087 Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by with Nina Corwin, The Uncertainty of Maps, and Andrena Zawinski, Something About. -Reba

  • Today’s Adventure Tuesday (as opposed to the usual Adventure Friday) was to the temporary bookstore Scanners, on 14th and Valencia. It will only be open for a month; the store is using a gallery as its space, and it looks it. The books are wacky, visually interesting, on a vast variety of topics, and most…

  • Remember, everybody: do not show up for school on Monday. Our glorious Chrissy Columbus came to this land and massacred its people so we could live here today! In all seriousness, celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day this coming Monday, instead of going to class. Sounds like a good deal. -Reba

  • I would definitely go to this one. Saturday October 8, 2011 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in the beautiful city of San Francisco. The annual Fall Classic, the TRPS Festival of Rock Posters Featuring rock poster artists and dealers from around the country, this is the biggest rock…

  • Creative Writing Department presents… Vegas Baby! The 2011 Fall Semester Creative Writing Show Friday, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts 555 Portola, San Francisco, CA 94131 SOTA MainstagJoin us for the 2011 Fall Semester Creative Writing Show. Poetry, Prose & Playwriting. Vegas-Themed Costume Contest Adults $10; Students…

  • Thursday 29 September 29, 2011 6:30 pm Readers Café & Bookstore Building C, South End Fort Mason Center, San Francisco (415)771-1011 Thursdays at Readers Cafe Al Young and Pauline Craig curated by Jack Hirschman, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library poet-in-residence – Reba

  • This week, we C-dubs are lucky enough to have our own Isaiah Dufort’s mother, Laura, teaching us through abstract visual art and the concept of tangibility: what is and what isn’t, and how we can utilize it in our writing. Laura Dufort is an accomplished painter, most known for her work with circles, both in…

  • http://www.calyxpress.org/journal.html CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women is committed to publishing the diverse voices of new and emerging women artists and authors. We will be open for submissions of poetry and prose via our online system from October 1-December 31: http://www.calyxpress.org/submissions/ Please visit our complete guidelines before submitting: http://www.calyxpress.org/submission.html The writer/artist guidelines…