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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Once upon a time, cats were lonely, so they wanted someone whose only purpose in existence was to love and cherish cats. Thus, the Creative Writers were born. Out of the glowing bundle of soft and squishy warmness and fluff was a stack of Post-It notes that absolutely adored cats. Cats named that stack Midori, and that was that.

  • “Diving Bell and the Butterfly” this Friday

    7:00 pm this Friday at the Randall Museum is the French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on a Jean-Dominique Bauby memoir of the same name, directed by Julian Schnabel. It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the César Awards as well as four Academy Award nominations.

    movie poster
    from http://www.thedivingbellandthebutterfly-themovie.com/

    Friday, September 16th at 199 Museum Way

    Refreshments at 6:30, Film begins at 7:00.

    This is the SECOND TO LAST Art & Film available before this grading period ends, so if you have yet to watch any movies, this and M (9/23) are your last chances! Art&Film requirements are due September 23 – watch your calendars.

  • Field Day!

    Yesterday was the famed Field Day, a day where the students and teachers of SOTA gather at the field for a rowdy and festive school-wide competition. Everyone was decked out in their departments’ colors and screaming from the bleachers as their representatives fought on the field, gunning for the treasured trophy.

    We C-dubs (yellow and proud), who took that first place trophy last year, didn’t place this time around, but we managed to still have a blast. A highlight was the dance competition: our own Aly and Jules surprised us all when they stripped down and whipped out their yellow paint, dousing themselves and the track around them- they had to clean up afterwards, but it was definitely worth it.

    -Reba

  • Open Mic- Poetry in the Mission

    Sunday September 18, 2011
    4:00 pm
    Sun Rise Restaurant-

    3126  24th. Street (near folsom) San Francisco

    …Continuing with the great tradition of poetry in the Mission District.
    Poesía Revuelta/ Mixed Poetry. Open mic.
    tap image see larger for list of poets and more
    Mixed poetry with hope
    Mixed poetry with wind
    Mixed poetry with anger
    Mixed poetry with rivers
    Mixed Poetry with mountains
    Mixed poetry with justice
    Mixed poetry with new and established poets and musicians
    Mixed poetry with young poets and with children
    Mixed poetry colors
    Mixed poetry for all ages and races
    Mixed poetry and all languages
    Mixed Poetry for us all
    Above all Poetry mixed with love.

    – San Francisco Art and Poetry

    -Reba

  • Wednesday at SOTA

    Yes, Field Day is coming, and CW has a reputation to protect, so yes, train, train, train! But take heed that Wednesday is not JUST Field Day!

    First, Sept. 14 will NOT BE LATE START. School begins at 8:00 am and will follow the activity schedule for the rest of the day. Don’t show up at 9!

    Second, Sept. 14 is the last day to turn in your proof of Tdap. If you are of the few people Mr. Pacini called out today, please turn in a form from your doctors, stating you have gotten the vaccination, or else you will not be able to go to class on Thursday (and yes, that is a bad thing).

    Last but certainly not least, Field Day. Wear yellow, feel yellow. CDUB SPIRIT!

  • Monday at Simple Pleasures Café

    …Jules’s band is playing from 8-10 pm. Simple Pleasures is located on Balboa, between 35th and 36th ave.

    from http://www.city-data.com/

    Come and support your fellow Cdub!

  • “Bladerunner” this Friday

    This Friday at the Randall Museum is “Bladerunner,” a classic sci-fi thriller, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down).

    FRIDAY SEPT 9 Cine/Club Randall Museum 199 Museum Way

    Refreshments 6:30 FIlm Program starts at 7pm

    CARTOON

    Student film: POE (group film by the workshop)

    Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER (1982, USA)

    A bold and mesmerizing vision of the future, this film has been one of our most popular, and with good reason. It’s a chilling detective thriller set against one of the most dazzling future cities ever imagined, but its underlying themes about humanity and self-determination are just as strong.

    For those who can’t make it to the required two Cine/Clubs, Art Saturdays also count for Art&Film credit. This Saturday, September 10th, Ronald will be taking people to downtown galleries, a picnic in Yerba Buena Gardens, and a movie that you will have to pay for.

    ART SATURDAY -SEPT 10
    10:45-11:15
    Meet at Metreon on the park side facing the waterfall. We’ll be sitting on the wall waiting for you! Students should RSVP for Art Saturdays when possible, so we can plan the picnic. However, don’t let that keep you from showing up if you decide at the last minute.    11:15-12:45 Some of the Downtown galleries. We’ll see the shows at Modernism, Paule Anglim, Haines, Koch and Fraekel for starters.

    12:45-Picnic-Yerba Buena Gardens

    1:30 FILM to be announced-

  • Former Student Teaches Writing Through Myth

    This week, we in the Creative Writing department are lucky enough to host a former C-dub, Adrian Kane. She graduated right before the current seniors were freshmen, so there’s just enough distance for authority, but not enough for us to miss out on some playful bonding. We’re benefiting from Adrian’s expertise in all things mythic, and it’s looking good for the rest of the week.

    -Reba

  • Submissions Opportunity: Poets

    Hey all: for anybody interested in submitting work, but without means of finding places to submit, every so often you can check here for submission opportunities. This particular one concerns poets, or those who take some pleasure in writing poetry reviews. This information was received through the CWROPPS email group. You can join for free at any point.

    Cellpoems, a text-message based poetry journal, is looking for submissions of short poems and poem reviews. Past contributors include Sherman Alexie, Charles Simic, Kimiko Hahn, Matthea Harvey, and Matthew Rohrer.

    GUIDELINES

    Poems and reviews must be less than 140 characters in length (including spaces). We accept simultaneous submissions, but do not consider previously published work. Please see our website for additional information:
    http://cellpoems.org/submit/

    or submit to us at:
    http://cellpoems.submishmash.com/submit

    -Reba

  • Publication: Giorgia

    Congratulations, Giorgia, for getting published in the Belletrist Coterie online magazine!

    Her piece, “How Mermaids Were Made,” will be published early 2012, in the inaugural issue.

    Cdubs, please follow Giorgia’s awesome-wonderful-fantastic example and email either myself or Rebecca for future publications.

  • Cultured Trip

    Today the department took to the underground to visit the Contemporary Jewish Art Museum, located across the street from the Metreon’s backyard. We were there to explore the Gertrude Stein and Charlotte Salomon exhibits, both of which took full advantage of form in their content. Stein classified herself as a “cubist with words,” and Salomon often included text and music with her paintings. All in all, a successful field trip, leaving us all feeling mighty cultured.

    -Reba