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: Submissions
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by Molly Bond (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit My writing practice generally consists of deadlines and feelings. Because I am a creative writing student, I write the majority of my pieces as an assignment, which tends to be more difficult because given prompts do not always provide the inspiration necessary to write what I…
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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 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 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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This show has taken over my life: M*A*S*H is a TV show spin-off of a movie with the same name, about a group of army doctors during the Korean War. The picture above is a perfect depiction of this SitCom-y show, filled mostly with situational (thus dark) humor and spiffy one-liners. Example: in the episode…
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Which came first, the summer or the lethargy? The easy connection to make is, school’s out, it’s vacation time, hence the desperate urge to do absolutely nothing. But it can also stand to reason that the urge to do nothing during the summer is some sort of universal truth of humanity, so instead of trudging…
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