SOTA CREATIVE-WRITING RELATED
<top>---2002: A San Francisco
Chronicle
article mentions the program in its early years
---2004: A lengthy Chronicle
feature on CW's Poetry Café
performance and publication of the first umläut
---Various articles by C-dub
Jack Mirkinson '05, written during his internship at the
San Francisco Chronicle
CREATIVE WRITING/SPOKEN WORD RESOURCES
IN SAN FRANCISCO
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826 Valencia:
http://www.826valencia.org
826 Valencia Street (between 19th and 20th Streets), San
Francisco
Writing workshops and drop-in tutoring. Free.
Colored Ink:
http://www.coloredink.org/aboutci.html
2781 24th Street (between York and
Hampshire), San Francisco
Email: colored_ink@hotmail.com
Hip-hop theater, spoken word, dance,
and song for the community. Stipends offered to youth
that perform in shows.
Mission Urban Arts/CELLspace: http://www.cellspace.org
2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco
Various classes for youth ages 12-18, including mc-ing,
rapping, and rhyming. Only meets during school year
(no
summer program.) Free.
San Francisco Chinatown Teen 'Zine:
http://sfpl.org/sfplonline/teen/sfteenzine/index.html
Chinatown Branch Library
1135 Powell St., San Francisco
An after-school program that uses the Internet and related
media and technologies to engage youth with the local
community. Students write
articles, poetry, book reviews, etc. and present them with
electronic web media.
SF Art & Film for Teenagers:
http://www.chaseartfilm.com
540 Alabama Street, San Francisco
Screenings of American and international films, review
writing, and group discussions. Free.
WritersCorps:
http://www.sfartscommission.org/WC
A project of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Experienced teachers, poets, fiction writers, and performers
work
primarily with at-risk,
immigrant, educationally disadvantaged youth ages 6 - 21.
Youth Speaks:
http://www.youthspeaks.org
2169 Folsom Street, San Francisco
Creative Writing and spoken word workshops for ages 14-19.
Free.
SUMMER WRITING CAMPS: LOCAL,
WEST COAST, PLUS TWO BEYOND
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Bay Area Writing Project:
http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/
Project of UC Graduate School of Education
Summer writing enrichment camps for incoming 4th-8th graders
Fir Acres Workshop in Writing and Thinking:
http://www.lclark.edu/org/firacres/
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Two-week program for students post-8th grade through high
school
Idyllwild Arts:
http://www.idyllwildarts.org/
At Idyllwild Arts Academy in southern California's San
Jacinto mountains
Two-week programs in fiction, poetry, and playwriting
Iowa Young Writer's Studio:
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiyws/tableofcontents.htm
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Summer program for high school writers at one of the
premiere writing sites in the nation
Simon's Rock College of Bard -- Summer Young Writers
Workshop:
http://www.simons-rock.edu/about/affiliated-programs/young-writers-workshop
Affiliated with Bard College in Massachusetts
Three-week program for high school students
MFA PROGRAMS
IN CREATIVE WRITING
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At some point in their lives, SOTA CW graduates may find
themselves looking into one of the nation's many MFA
programs in Creative Writing. A 2005 San Francisco
Chronicle feature by Janet Wells, an MFA student
herself, examined these programs, which are a relatively new
feature on the academic landscape. You can find the
August 21, 2005 article
here.
Bay Area MFA programs include:
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth St., San Francisco
www.cca.edu/academics/mfawriting
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
www.mills.edu/academics/graduate/eng
St. Mary's College
1928 St. Mary's Road, Moraga
www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco
www.sfsu.edu/~cwriting
San Jose State University
One Washington Square, San Jose
www.sjsu.edu/cwmfa/
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco
http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/grad/writing_mfa/index.html
Stanford University/Stegner Fellowship
Margaret Jack's Hall, Stanford
www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/
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