CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

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Tag: Halloween

  • Poetry’s Exploration by Pascal Lockwood-Villa

    Poetry has always been a cornerstone of every Creative Writer’s repertoire. This year, there is no exception. Every school year, there has always been a unit on poetry, which would be capped off by a performance sometime in the late months of Fall. Despite this,  these units have not once had complaints raised against them…

  • Witchcraft and Creepy Statues: a Freshman’s First Reading by Gemma Collins

    Never before I got into Creative Writing did I actively go to readings. It was a foreign concept until about last week when I pulled up Green Apple Book’s website and picked the soonest reading. It didn’t matter to me the book or the author, I simply intended to go, watch, and go home. It…

  • On Friday night—the eve before All Hallow’s Eve, I did something I thought I would never do: I chaperoned a Halloween Dance. Well, chaperoned is a strong word—it was more along the lines of taking people’s coats and throwing them in bags for coat check and using the magical cotton candy machine to make people…