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: The Classroom

  • Food Bank

    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,…

  • Thursday Housekeeping

    There are a lot of things to cover today… First, how many Creative Writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I don’t know. Check the handbook. That’s right, folks, the new Creative Writing Handbook is hot off the printing press, so to speak. Freshmen will find this incredibly useful as your guide for…

  • Lockers, Lockers, Lockers

    Let me say that again for maximum emphasis: lockers. Lockers. Lockers. Here is the checklist: Emergency Card Green Locker Form Military Release Form (your parents DO NOT have to sign it) Free/Reduced School Meals Application Printout That link will take you where you need to be taken– fill out the survey, and at the very…

  • CW Bonding Day

    Senior Tuesday saw to the department-wide scavenger hunt, a CDub tradition that shall be upheld for years to come… Tomorrow, Juniors Wednesday. Epic won’t even begin to cover it.

  • Portfolios: Words from the Not-So-Wise

    Incoming freshmen, a grave duty has befallen upon you, to lead the Creative Writing department on the trek to reform our portfolio-utilization skills. In other words, keep your stuff together. Literally. Never assume a CW assignment, once done, to be negligible, because chances are, it will end up on the list of items you should…

  • “Young at Art” Winners!

    “Young at Art” (the annual San Franciscan competition, where local youth can champion their art) has rolled around once more, and the results are in! No surprise, our department is heavy on the victories across the category board: Playwriting, Poetry, Short Story, and Non-fiction. DRAMATIC SCRIPT 1st Place Michelle Ang, Ruth Asawa School of the…

  • Theatre Tech Fashion Show: UNDERLINED

    Come to the Tech Fashion Show and support your fellow C-Dubs! Photogenic crowd that we are, three of us (and maybe more) have been given the honor to model for our dear Techies’ clothes: Hazel, Beyleigh, and yours truly! Tech’s only show of the year (though we know, actually, that every show is theirs), it…

  • CW on Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Senior Alex Pollack brought to our already-extensive table today Jean-Michel Basquiat, an American graffiti artist from the 80s. Armed with printouts of Basquiat’s art, he led the Cdubs on a ruminating discussion on Basquiat’s use of symbols, repetition, and his political stance, all in frame of Basquiat’s intriguing blend of visual art and words. After…

  • Songwriting à la CW

    How many Creative Writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Heck if I know, but I do know how many Cdubs it takes to write a song. …Or maybe not. But I do know, for sure this time, that whatever song however many Cdubs write, it is guaranteed to be quality. Jules Cunningham,…

  • Writing Through Eliot

    Yes yes, I know. If I tell you how much I love the people in our department again you’ll rip out my coccyx and shank me with it. But. I love the people in our department. Take Nick, for example, one of our darling freshmen with a passion for Eliot. He took Creative Writing on…