CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
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Category: Submissions
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by Shanna (’12) Volunteering can be awesome, I swear. The San Francisco Food Bank offers tons and tons of really fun and active volunteering programs – and the best part? You give three hours of your time and end up helping 18,000 people get food on their table for two weeks. It’s an amazing experience,…
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By Colin Yap (’16) I think that from the get go, there was a nervousness in my gut about going to the movie screening. There was all the normal trepidation present of new places and new people, but there was also my own irrational apprehension of seeing a black and white movie from nineteen-thirties Germany with two experienced film…
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By Nick Cloud (’15) Midori—Mykel—Olga—I greet you, my comrades! Yea, we have put them all to shame, have we not? My God, my God, but we have. Look upon us, ye low! Look, see how our spirits swell, tremble, with splendidness, see, we are arrayed in triumph, radiant more for the shadows below our eyes,…
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The Poets & Writers website offers a useful repository of information for, well, poets and writers. There are several “legitimate” writing competitions that have some fast-approaching July deadlines, so take a look and see if any are write for you. http://www.pw.org
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The Douglas Morrisson Theatre is now accepting submissions for their first Playwriting Cagematch! Isaiah has generously offered his expertise for feedback on anything you might want to submit. Five playwrights enter, but only one will emerge victorious and win a grand prize! We are seeking brief plays (5-20 minutes) set at the fictional “Hairless Raccoon Saloon,” an out-of-the-way, hole-in-the-wall,…
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“… the Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Public Library, in partnership with Youth Speaks (the country’s leading nonprofit presenter of spoken word performance, education and youth development programs), are staging competitions that will result in two Youth Poet Laureates, one from each city. The winners will each be honored with $5,000 in scholarships and…
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3/30: Leonard Milberg ’53 Secondary School Poetry Prize ++ Recommended free contest sponsored by the Princeton University creative writing program awards prizes up to $500 for unpublished poems by 11th-graders (high school juniors). Submit 1-3 poems, any length. Contest is judged by the Princeton University creative writing faculty, which includes such acclaimed authors as Jeffrey Eugenides and…
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Many thanks to Dana for sharing incredible job and internship opportunities with us today. Here is a list of the places she named, linked to their individual websites: Teaching: Performing Arts Workshop: paid internship California Poets In The Schools: paid internship Reading Series: Small Press Traffic: an experimental writing series (Samantha Giles from SPT will…
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Winter 2012 Story Contest OUR WINTER CONTEST is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not…
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The anthology, Submitted: Women Finding and Leaving Extreme Religion (to be published by Seal Press in Spring, 2013), will chronicle the lives of women from a variety of restrictive religious backgrounds who chose a religious path only to eventually reject it or alter it in whole or in part. We are seeking contributions from women…
