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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At this time of year most schools have a Winter Formal. School Of The Arts has a Drag Ball. I learned about this when a Drag Queen in flamboyant colors and excessive makeup stormed our classroom, arbitrarily picking me up in the process. Dances aren’t large events at SOTA, and the student government is looking…
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In the spirit of Doing What We Want (which is the name of our 3 day unit in which we explore a list of Things We Want To Do More Of In Creative Writing), we hopped on a bus and went to the botanical gardens. Magnolia leaf hats were worn, leaves were licked, and birds…
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We began the first day of Sarah Fontaine’s mini-unit with a prompt to write about how we, as both humans and writers, connect to other people. This got me to thinking about my most recent favorite poem, “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver. I don’t usually read poems and then proclaim them my “favorite,”…
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This past Monday, Creative Writing welcomed a very special guest, photography writer Pete Brook. In Brook’s own words: “I am not a photographer. I stick to looking and commenting. I work as a freelance writer.” Brook, an avid blogger and curator of photographic images, came to speak about his work with images taken in and…
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On Saturday, Abigail, Frances, Mykel and I piled into the Schott-Rosenfield minivan and drove down to UC Santa Cruz, where the annual National High School Ethics Bowl was being held. This is only the second year since its inception, but competition was intense. Schools from across the Bay Area sent one or two teams— Bentley,…
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The first round of Creative Writing auditions were conducted today! Hooray! Though I had to wake up at 7 on a Saturday, the applicants’ beautiful words, faces, and laughter at our jokes knocked hours off my sleep debt. Heather told me to say something in this post to frighten the applicants because we know some…
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Recently I have been looking for a book to read. I know this seems like an odd thing; there are hundreds of thousands of books out there in the world that I’ve never read. Yet, finding a book that intrigues me and keeps my attention is hard. I like books about nature, and real life,…
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Shanghai proved to be a kinetic collage of the high and low, old and new, and clean and dirty–with a drivers exercising complete anarchy, whether behind the wheel of cars, buses, electric motorbikes (sneaky and soundless), or bicycles. One ventures out into the street only in large groups of pedestrians; drivers stop for nothing less…
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Fish is like writing— it can be raw, but it’s not necessarily fresh. —Mykel Mogg (’14)
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Congrats to our very own Giorgia Peckman (’14) for an Honorable Mention in the Discus Awards! She’s been rewarded $1,000 from the judging panel. Also for a recent publication in The Whistling Fire, her poem “Sundial.”
