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.
Category: Student Writing
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by Olivia Weaver (’16) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit There is no way to write. It happens. Usually, at the most inconvenient of times. Perhaps you are listening to your classmates do speed-reads as you prepare for your show that’s on tomorrow and some hidden dam breaks inside of your head and the words are…
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by Giorgia Peckman (’14) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit “And that’s what I saw when I looked out the window that day. All these words were living.” — Eileen Myles Frances said, “I want to be God/Bring me good news.” That is the role I possess, desire and aspire to as a writer— possibly not…
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by Colin Yap (’16) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit In the middle of the ocean, on a circle of land jutting from the blue haze of sea, lies an island. In the center is a city of glass and steel, resting upon fields of concrete. Vertical shafts of glass and metal extend from the ground…
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by Avi Hoen (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit The world is stupid. No it’s not. Well it kind of is. It sucks sometimes. When you’re on top of it, it feels awesome. Not awesome as in “new pair of shades,” but awesome as in, “a bird just gave birth to an elephant.” That kind…
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by Hazel Mankin (’13 ) From the Truong Tran Unit My goodness Look at you Honey, you’re looking so sweet there In your thin summer dress I just want to wrap my arms around you And gouge your spine right out of your back Darling, I’ve never wanted so badly to Peel back a person’s skin…
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by Luca Foggini (’16) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit One fine morning in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, a small blue speck swirled with all the bearings of life. It had on it that elusive combination of hydrogen and oxygen, one that brought about the stirrings of protoplasmic sea-life, spineless, half-alive sludge…
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by Olivia Alegria (’14) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit “When one has reached the highest possible level of excellence, there is a ceiling that keeps him or her from rising up so far that he or she does not float away entirely. Absolute possible perfection is a hotly debated concept, but most parties have agreed…
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by Justus Honda (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit rumbling bustle in a café at 7 o’clock in the evening, cardboard cups and porcelain mugs click and tap on marble tables, drawling voices reverberate off dimly lit walls. silent people filter through. someone walks in with music under their hat and oceansound in their pocket.…
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by Maya Litauer (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit My writing practice is never what I want it to be. I constantly feel as though I could be doing more writing, more journaling, more editing, spending more time on my practice. I feel guilty all the time for not being my most-perfect self, for not putting…
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Well readers, it’s that time of summer again–the time of summer you don’t quite admit is there because summer exists as a timeless entity anyway: summer is halfway over. Actually, it’s a little more than halfway over. In a month and a week we’ll have to fill our backpacks with pens and notebooks, and finally…
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