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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Tuesday, April 24 7:30pm Queer Writing Today reading Kevin Killian’s Queer Writing Today class read from what they’ve been working on all semester featuring Sarah Bushman, Leonard Crosby, Militza Jean-Felix, Vernon Keeve III, Melissa Kuhn, Crys Leyman, Edgardo Peña, Jeremy Ravdin, Jill Tydor & special guests Jen Benka & Carol Mirakove at Artists’ Television Access…
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As our playwriting unit continues and eventually (sadly) comes to an end, we will hopefully continue to bring you videos concerning it. Enjoy our first one! It’s covering cold reads, which are basically people picking up scripts they’ve never seen before and acting them out. It’s one of many steps in the journey to a…
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We are very lucky and pleased to have Dan Hoyle joining us for our playwriting show, Play On Words (April 20-21, 7:30 pm, Dan Kryston Memorial Theatre). If you buy an advance ticket, you can go to the pre-show reception in the theatre lobby, where he will be milling about chatting everybody up. As for…
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“Wayne Koestenbaum’s brilliant new collection is like a lurid coloring book of Fauvist Depravity. Playfully perverse, his poems reinvent the lyrical, satirical barb for our moment. And they’re as telling as they are outrageous. Where else could we meet the ‘Mrs Robinson of Abstract Expressionism’ or experience the joy of biting “the wolfman’s wombat ass.”…
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Do you remember that Sarah worked at a VERY high-end leather goods boutique selling absolutely gorgeous pieces? The shop, April in Paris, is on Clement. I have a very cool bookmark that Sarah made for me when I visited her there! Check out this article on the shop, the owner, and Sarah! sfgate.com Heather Woodward…
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UMLÄUT RELEASE PARTY Even-Toed Ungulate Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 pm Tonight! Adults $10 Students $7 826 Valencia/Pirate Supply Store 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Join us for a fun-filled evening of food and live music, deep below the sea, to celebrate this year’s umläut, Even-Toed Ungulate. Live performances by local bands Rin Tin Tiger &…
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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The year: 2009 The event: Umlaut Release Party at McSweeneys photos by Willem Yarborough
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Thursday, April 5th 7:30-9:30 826 Valencia, the pirate store Come celebrate the release of the new issue of SotA’s literary journal: umläut, featuring the best interdisciplinary work the school has to offer! For students, by students!Food! Live music! Readings from the 2012 issue of umlaut, Even-Toed Ungulate! Raffle! Join us for a fun night deep below the sea,…
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