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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  • 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

  • After Creative Writing

    By Rebecca Straznickas  (’12) When I was thirteen years old, I was accepted into a relatively prestigious program where for two hours every day I would be part of a community, full of people kind of like me. These people loved to write, and any personalities that followed that love had to be good. Socially…

  • Weird Thanksgiving

    In Creative Writing, we have developed a system for knowing when things are going to happen. One of the sure signs of when weird things are about to go down is when you receive an email from Heather stating: “So tomorrow is our First Annual Creative Writing Pre-Thanksgiving Weird Buffet.” What exactly is a weird buffet, you…

  • Pancake Breakfast

    Do you like bacon? sausage? All You Can Eat Pancakes? A chance to run into one of our amazing Creative Writing students? Then you should come this Sunday (or the next) to Sweet Inspiration Cafe in order to participate in SOTA’s Pancake Breakfast! This coming Sundays, December 9, and the Sunday after it (the 16th),…

  • Congrats Maya!

    Congratulations to Maya Litauer (’15), who is being published in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters. Look out for her poem  “The Peach Fuzz Above Her Lip” in their 2012 Fall issue. Congrats!

  • On Graphs & Writing

    It is a well known fact that we CWs have a strong and insidious dislike of math. We are writers after all: wielders of the mighty pen. You’re using a pencil?! Haha, what is this?? We’re not in MATH!!! But lately there has been change brewing. Lately. . . well, the landscape has changed. The old…

  • Updates on Pretentious Poets Anonymous

    by Justus (’15) PPA has been going for several weeks now. We have workshopped several of each other’s poems, shared our favorite poems, consumed large quantities of delicious coffee together, and probably thoroughly confused passerby who happened to look over to see a group of teenagers sitting under a large umbrella in a public parklet…

  • Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong

    On MotherJones by Kristina Rizga I’d expected noisy classrooms, hallway fights, and disgruntled staff. Instead I found a welcoming place, satisfied students and parents, and an 88 percent college acceptance rate. Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a “low-performing” school.

  • Robert Reese’s Poetry Readings

    For all of the newcomers, Robert Reese is one of CW’s favorite Artists in Resident. He’s recently started a YouTube Channel and has created recordings of terrific poems– check out his Pablo Neruda readings!

  • Prop 30

    From Heather: For any of you not familiar with the CRUCIAL upcoming vote on Prop 30, PLEASE read: Fund Education and pass it on!