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.

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Once upon a time, cats were lonely, so they wanted someone whose only purpose in existence was to love and cherish cats. Thus, the Creative Writers were born. Out of the glowing bundle of soft and squishy warmness and fluff was a stack of Post-It notes that absolutely adored cats. Cats named that stack Midori, and that was that.

Category: Artists in Residence Archive

  • Writing Through Sound with Kevin Carnes

    by Flavia (’14) This past unit with Kevin Carnes was truly and melodiously enlightening. This guy has a stern persona; his words are as careful and precise as his drumming. It was his first time teaching a classroom of high school students and he was able to not only meet the teaching expectations but also…

  • Rachel Znerold

    by Shanna (’13) I’ve had Scott as a teacher for almost two years and I feel like I know him pretty well; so when Heather told us his wife was coming in to teach CW, I knew she was going to be to cool. And it was true, Rachel emanated this totally friendly and down-to-earth,…

  • Laura Dufort in the Classroom

    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…

  • Mindful Artist in Residence

    Today was the last day of Daniella Salzman’s “Mindfulness and Writing” unit, wherein students learned how to pay attention to what was going on in the body, the mind, the emotional “heart” and the external environment. Daniella, who lives in Berkeley and works as a dance expressive arts therapist, also spends much of her time…

  • Jeff Mooney

    This Friday marked the end of this year’s first Creative Writing artist-in-resident, Jeff Mooney. In a week of “writing through sound,” Jeff gave us the assignments “a time when you disagreed with someone” and “The Voices in my Head,” leaving them open-ended, allow us to take the prompt in whichever direction we choose and reflect…

  • Upcoming Artist in Residence

    The Creative Writing department often is taught by local artists–Artists in Residence–and beginning on August 29, we will be hosting Erik Ulman, composer and Stanford lecturer, for a week. He will be teaching a Writing Through Music unit, in which students will learn how to utilize music and sound in their writing. This week we’ve…