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: The Classroom
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After a busy busy week of playwriting and writing plays, we are finally back, ladies and gentlemen, quickly checking in. You may know this man as a wind-up bunny, a lazy tiger, or perhaps a swarm of bees (all of the bees). Our resident playwright and furry-by-coercion, Isaiah was an invaluable presence in our weeks…
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Play on Words: 16 Ten Minute Plays Friday and Saturday, April 20 & 21, 7:30 PM Spotlight Reception with advance purchase tickets, Friday April 20, 6 -7 pm Special guest, Dan Hoyle, actor, journalist & playwright Purchase online and receive a $2.00 discount. Tickets available at: www.sfsota.org/cw 99 PROBLEMS BUT A PLAY AIN’T ONE
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Thanks to the umläut staff who made this year’s umläut release party the best we’ve ever seen! Hosted at our dearly beloved 826 Valencia, party-goers were greeted with delightful decorations in deep sea theme under an ambiance lighting. The 2012 release of umläut, Even-Toed Ungulate, is only one in a long line of many remarkable collections of…
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Last night, creative writers attended a concert/reading at Old First Church: The music of Dmitri Shostakovitch interspersed with readings of poetry by his compatriots Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky. The performance was unusual and spectacular; hearing both the musical language and the literature of one culture in one evening was awe-inspiring. As Brodsky said, “Music is…
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Tick tock, guys. As the clock counts down to our sure to be spectacular show Play On Words, the time for edits is also running out. Behold, the due date of the final drafts of our plays! Creative Writing One, tomorrow is Judgment Day. Make sure your script’s in proper format, along with a list…
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When you think Creative Writing, you think poetry and fiction, but rarely playwriting. Why is that? Well, “fiction” connotes imagination, “poetry” brings to mind eloquence and, well, poetry, which is an esoteric term all in itself. But “playwriting?” That’s like, people talking on stage and chasing each other with guns and trying to make the audience…
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Enjoy our Theatre Department’s production of Maxim Gorky’s “Lower Depths” this weekend for their last showing. Watch the preview: Join us for our fully mounted Spring Theatre Production – Maxim Gorky’s Russian Classic ‘The Lower Depths’ – Scenes From Russian Life, First produced by Stanislavski at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1902. Showtimes: Friday, March 16…
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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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After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains by John Keats After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears away From the sick heavens all unseemly stains. The anxious month, relieved of its pains, Takes as a long-lost right…
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Due to much controversy regarding Google Calendars, here is the list of all the department requirement due dates in March, plus other important dates: Thursday, 3/8 – Mykel’s Birthday Monday, 3/12 – Literary Reviews due Tuesday, 3/13 – 10-minute plays first draft due Thursday, 3/15 – CW Spring Potluck Monday, 3/19 – Submissions/Reading due Friday,…
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