CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

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  • My Experience with the 10-Minute Play by Eva Whitney

    Upon entering the Creative Writing Department at SOTA, I was surprised to learn that, aside from the expected Fiction and Poetry units, there would also be a Playwriting unit taught by a real playwright. I had avoided the choice to write a play for my audition portfolio—the thought of creating a whole, live scene on…

  • Creative Nonfiction in Creative Writing II by Eva Whitney

      My first semester in Creative Writing II has proved to expand and challenge my writing like never before. Every sentence, thought, or mere word I wrote down was shared with the entire group, something I always struggled with. In our poetry unit, my work progressively got more and more personal as my peers began…

  • Performance Poetry by Eva Whitney

    Between the two introductory weeks of Creative Writing where we swam, visited museums, attended readings and got to know each other better, and our Fall show, there is an empty period of time. During my past two years in the department, we have filled these weeks with Spoken Word and Experimental Fiction lessons in which…

  • Lucia Berlin: A Word for Word Production at Z Space by Eva Whitney

    Lucia Berlin: A Word for Word Production at Z Space by Eva Whitney

    Recently, The Creative Writing Department gathered at Z Space on the edge of the Mission to watch a Word for Word Performance of Lucia Berlin’s best short stories. We crammed ourselves in the small theater, eagerly watching the stories be presented as plays. It was a new experience for most of us to watch a…

  • The Sophomore Poetry Lessons by Eva Whitney

    For the six weeks preceding Winter Break, the Creative Writing Department focused on poetry. We split into Creative Writing One and Creative Writing Two, or, more simply, the underclassmen and upperclassmen. In Creative Writing One, we spent the majority of the six weeks reading from The Discovery of Poetry, a poetry anthology edited by Frances Mayes.…

  • Metamorphosis by Eva Whitney

    I suppose it is customary for there to be one blog post about the show each year, and this is it. Simply, the Creative Writing Department here at The School of the Arts puts on two shows a year: a cumulative performance in Autumn and a playwriting show in Spring. Although the cumulative performance is…

  • A Dip into New Waters by Eva Whitney

    A Dip into New Waters by Eva Whitney

    The beginning of the school year was filled with outings, such as going to the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Bay. These were to bring us closer together and build friendships between the Creative Writers. On the Friday of the second week of school, the Creative Writing Department ventured to the tip…