CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • PlayGround’s 2011-12 Playwriting Intensives Sign up for PlayGround’s monthly two-hour playwriting master class series with leading Bay Area dramatists and(re)discover your potential as a playwright. All classes take place at A.C.T. Studios, 30 Grant Ave, San Francisco on first Mondays, 7pm-9pm, October through March. Registration is $15 for the October 3 class only; $35 for…

  • 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…

  • Come to Tainted Rainbows, an event with free admission and food at the Women’s Building for 14 to 24 year olds, with a photo booth, live DJs, and a fierce drag show! Friday, September 23rd 7pm – 11pm 3543 18th Street, The Women’s Building

  • For all interested in submitting work: The editors of Conte, an online journal of narrative writing founded in 2005, announce an open submissions call for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our sixteenth issue, slated for publication in Winter 2011-2012. Recent contributors include Norman Dubie, Erika Meitner, Bruce Weigl, Robert Wrigley, Jim Daniels, E. Ethelbert…

  • Hey all: for anybody interested in submitting work, but without means of finding places to submit, every so often you can check here for submission opportunities. This particular one concerns poets, or those who take some pleasure in writing poetry reviews. This information was received through the CWROPPS email group. You can join for free…