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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  • 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

     

  • Submissions

    The time is almost here for submissions to be turned in!

    On Wednesday, September 21st, all Cdubs must turn in a list of three pieces that have been submitted for publication within the six week period. Instead of wading through the thick, impenetrable sludge that Google spews up when you type in “writing submissions,” simply sign up with CWRWOPPS. Join the group with whatever email you use (yahoo!Groups supports Facebook and Google accounts) to get updates whenever someone posts with a call for submissions.

    Another useful website to find submissions is Duotrope, a search engine you can use to narrow down the range of your results (i.e. you want to submit a piece in a certain genre, select from the drop-down list, and all the affiliates with Duotrope that are looking for a piece with that certain genre will appear). There are no daily updates with Duotrope, however, so you’re responsible for checking in and submitting your work.

    Submissions are a big part of being a writer, so spread your writing around, and get them published; as Heather always says, good writers will submit more than three times!

  • Volunteer at SOTA!

    Attention all SOTA students: If you happen to find yourself with free time at any point in the day, you should feel free to help out your school by volunteering for side-jobs. This sort of work is especially necessary at the beginning of the year.

    Contact the Office Volunteer Coordinator, LoisAnn Schultz, at loisann@gmail.com, to sign up.

    -Reba

  • Neat Arts Programs for Students

    Out of Site Center for Arts Education is offering a slew of free afterschool classes during the fall on Ocean Avenue, near Balboa Park BART. Click for more information. There’s also The Hunters Point Shipyard Public Art Youth Program, run by California Lawyers for the Arts, holds monthly workshops led by artists in residence. Participants are paid a stipend for attending.  Click for more information. To apply, please email Jill Roisen at California Lawyers for the Arts, jill.roisen@calawyersforthearts.org
    -Reba

  • Adventure Friday

    I’m sure everyone’s received the email from Heather regarding our first adventure Friday of the year this week on September 3rd, but in case you haven’t…

    We will be going to the Contemporary Jewish Museum to see the Stein and Charlotte Solomon exhibits, much thanks to the wonderful Maia who has gotten the tickets for us. The de Young is currently hosting a Picasso exhibit, and SFMOMA a Stein exhibit, both of which come highly recommended by Heather in addition to the CJM exhibit we’ll be visiting Friday.

    We leave school at 12:45 and have to arrive by 1:45 to have time to see both exhibits.

    –Midori

  • Jeff Mooney

    This Friday marked the end of this year’s first Creative Writing artist-in-resident, Jeff Mooney. In a week of “writing through sound,” Jeff gave us the assignments “a time when you disagreed with someone” and “The Voices in my Head,” leaving them open-ended, allow us to take the prompt in whichever direction we choose and reflect the best of us. His questions brought us through class-wide discussions and debates on justice and intuition. His classes consisted of a variety of ways to fit ourselves together within a group using rhytm, and then to pull away from what everyone else is doing and to focus on ourselves. The exercises with rhythms and tunes offered us new ways of portraying our writing, different ways to interpret our words.

    “Hopeful,” Jeff answered, when I asked how he felt about teaching our class. “It feels hopeful when people get together to talk and do something about things they care for. It was exciting to discover the diverse ways people articulated their thoughts.”

    It was an experience I doubt anyone of us would be forgetting soon.

    -Midori

  • Art Auction

    For any and all interested in participating in a school-wide, open-to-the-public art auction, read on. It takes place in the Audre Lorde room in the Women’s Building on October 1, with a pending admission fee (assume fairly cheap). Available for auctioning are pieces from all departments, including writing consultations from the Creative Writing department. Free food is rumored. Also at the event will be performances from members of the Songwriting Club.

    Please come and support young artists! Enrichment, entertainment, good eats–what’s not to like?

    -Reba

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