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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I’m sure many of you wonder what the near future holds for the current Creative Writing Seniors. Well, here is a little blurb about Hazel’s plans. Next year, Hazel Mankin will be attending UC Santa Cruz, where she expects to study writing and literature. However, she is also excited to expand her knowledge of mechanical…
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It’s quite simple, actually. Friday is a magical day. It’s a day to be around people you love. It’s a day to spend time with the people you really care about. And who do you care more about then Creative Writers who have spent the last month slaving over their various 10 minute scripts? Next…
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Creative Writing has a new Facebook page. We are posting blog updates, school news, writing contests, and fun local events (literary and otherwise). You don’t have to join Facebook to view our page. So come on over, like us, visit us, and feel free to post anything of interest to the CW community on…
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by Justus Honda This house has spirits living in mouse-holes, The kinds you come across Spinning through a gray-green daydream; Spirits that live off the disembodied hum From a refrigerator in the dark, Spirits that swoop and catch dust motes In copper waves of lamplight. This house has disinterested spirits, All-too-ancient things snoring In cobweb…
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This year, many Creative Writing students (as well as a theater student) had the joy of winning awards at the 2013 Youth Arts Festival. It was great to go to the Literary Arts Award Ceremony and see everyone read or receive their awards, as well as a see a very important keynote address about the…
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Let the streets be the given. The buildings are a defining property of the streets. The x axis is numbered 1–30. Let the x axis be called Mission. Points are clustered between 15 and 25. In this equation, all buildings have a height ≥ 2 stories, though not all have two distinct stories. In f…
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild My rating: 5 of 5 stars History is usually rendered boring and inaccessible through pedantic language and an influx of context-less facts and statistics. Hochschild removes all that and writes the story of history as if he were writing…
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What is there to look forward to in the Poetry Café this Friday and Saturday @ 7:30? Well. . . – Feminine energy flowing from the stage, and not the awkward, intense, liberal, all talk “equal rights” feminism, but a celebration of what femininity means to all of us. – The last Poetry Cafe of…
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After a brief hiatus, we are rebuilding our Facebook page. So come on over, like us, post a poem on our wall, or whatever… Creative Writing on Facebook
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One of the earliest units Creative Writing delved into this semester was an “art unit” taught by Ronald Chase, where he helped us understand the changing landscape, subject, and techniques of art, and taught us ways in which we communicate about art. Why use, “I just don’t like it very much,” when you can go…
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