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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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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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.
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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…
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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),…
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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!
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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…
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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…
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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.
