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CW NEWS
NOTE:
Need to refresh your memories of previous school
years? Forget what happened and when, or who
got published and where? See the top of this
page for Creative Writing
archive News and Calendar pages going back to
Fall 2005.
NOTE #2: An excellent, frequently updated source for news
of the general SOTA community is the
SOTA PTSA website.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Congratulations to Naomi Neal '09,
who has two pieces appearing in If Poetry
Journal. This month the print edition of the
journal will publish her poem, "This Is It." And
another poem, "My Feet Are Not From Here," is now up
on the web edition of the journal. Read the web
poem, complete with Naomi's bio,
here.
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
In a September 23 news entry (below), we
noted that Otto Pippenger '12 was the
co-writer of two films accepted as entries into
student film festivals. Over the past weekend, one
of those films, The Waiting Room, was named
Best High School Comedy at the Sixth Annual
International Student Film Festival Hollywood.
Congratulations Otto! We will post a link if the
film becomes available for online viewing. In the
meantime, the list of winners can be found at
http://www.isffhollywood.org/winners2008.php .
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OCTOBER 29, 2008
We have some updates to the website
Gallery pages. In the
Photo gallery, check out CW seniors who
participated in an October 5 reading at the SF Main
Library, part of the city-wide Litquake festival. In
Videos, all existing
clips have now been incorporated into Creative
Writing's YouTube page. You can see clips embedded
in our own pages, or by visiting our YouTube
"channel,"
SOTA Writers.
Not yet included among the videoclips -- but
soon, we hope -- are the fine performances given by
C-dubs at the first show on October 24. It was an
exciting evening, with a crowded, responsive house.
As Heather Woodward noted afterward to students,
director Tony Bravo is a master at getting students
to "let go of flat, safe delivery and to open up and
read with all of yourself." The audience, including
many freshmen attending their first SOTA
performance, responded to that openness. And, it
must be said, to the costume contest at
intermission...
OCTOBER 24, 2008
Another acceptance notice for a C-dub:
Danielle O'Farrell '11 has learned that her
piece "Finding Color" will appear in Long Short
Story: An Ezine for Writers. The best estimate
for publication is July 2009, but you can check out
the e-zine now at
http://www.longstoryshort.us/.
Congratulations, Danielle!
Tonight, the Creative Writing Department takes
over the SOTA Main Stage for its first performance
of the 2008 - 2009 year. The show, titled So I
Had the Weirdest Dream..., is directed by the
inimitable Tony Bravo. If you haven't cleared your
calendar yet, do it now, note these details from
our calendar,
and come out to hear some fresh, energetic new
voices.
OCTOBER 6, 2008
A new personal essay is up in the
First Person slot. Sloane Martin '07 provides some nice
reflections on the department, fifteen months
after graduating. Take a look! And note again that First
Person is open to all CW students, parents, and
artists-in-residence, past and present. If you
have thoughts to share, drop an email to Steve at
wbmstr_cw@sbcglobal.net .
OCTOBER 2, 2008
We usually have news of CW students and
artists-in-residence, but today it's a great
pleasure to note that Heather Woodward, the
department's director -- and founder seven years ago
-- has received special recognition in a San
Francisco Examiner article about the best
teachers in San Francisco. Congratulations,
Heather -- though it's no surprise to anyone at
SOTA! You can read the October 1 article, by
Examiner education writer Caroline Grannan,
by clicking
here.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
We have news today on recent
accomplishments by two C-dubs:
Word comes that "The Picture of the
Trumpet," a poem by Yaul Perez-Stable '11,
will be published in a MotesBooks anthology titled
MOTIF: Writing By Ear. The anthology is
due out by the end of 2008, and when publication
rights to the poem become available we'll also print
it in our Student Work section. MotesBooks
website is
http://www.motesbooks.com.
And Otto Pippenger '12 is the co-writer of
two films that have been accepted into student film
festivals. Details: The Waiting Room,
directed by SF Art and Film student Max Strebel, has
been chosen to screen and compete in the
International Student Film Festival in Hollywood,
coming up on November 7 -9 of this year.
Click here for that festival's list of entrants.
And The Time Machine, co-written by SOTA
media student Willem Yarbrough -- who also directs
-- has been accepted into the Sacramento Youth Film
Festival, with screenings on October 3. You
can read about that festival
here.
Kudos to both!
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Forrest Ambruster '10 becomes the
latest C-dub to report news of publication.
His poem "Revolutionary Brussels Sprouts in a
Bureaucrat's Salad" will appear in 95 Notes,
a literary magazine published by Chicago State
University. Congratulations Forrest!
AUGUST 24, 2008
Congratulations to Sarah Maloney '11,
who has learned that her short story "Five Minute
Date-o-Thon" will be published in an upcoming issue
of Conclave: A Journal of Character.
Watch upcoming News items for details.
AUGUST 16, 2008
Please note there has been a change in
the date of the first potluck. It has been
rescheduled to Thursday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m.
As always, check your email for location and other
details.
AUGUST 13, 2008
The official start to school is still 12
days off, but the Creative Writing department is up
and running. Emails have already gone out
regarding the first potluck of the year, which will
be held on Friday, August 22 at 7:30 p.m. It's
an important one, so check your email for details --
and if you haven't received the notice, let
department coordinators know that they may need to
update your email address.
Each fall brings updates and a few changes to the
CW website. As for updates: New
syllabi, new material, and a fleshed-out calendar
will appear as details become available. And
as for changes: This year, as the site begins
its fourth year, we will be
shifting to the use of YouTube
in presenting online videos. This
reflects widespread changes in web-viewing habits,
and is an easy and familiar format for many site
visitors of all ages. New and (eventually)
existing CW videos will be viewable on our own site
in an embedded YouTube player. But we will
also be building a presence on YouTube itself ...
which, we hope, will in turn lure new viewers
back to this site and ensnare them in the literary
web that is SOTA Creative Writing. (Oh, why
can you never find a metaphor cop when you need
one?) Check it out for yourself by visiting
the
Videoclips page of our Gallery section. Or
go right to the
SOTA Writers "channel" at YouTube.
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