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The Creative Writing Department at San Francisco School of the Arts is a diverse community of student writers working within the greater Bay Area writing community.  Our mission is to write our way toward greater understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.  We write from our imagination and experience, across genres and contexts; we write alone, collaboratively, and with writers-in-residence.  We publish our work in our acclaimed literary journal, umläut, and give readings at venues throughout the City.  And three times a year we take our work to the SOTA stage in major reading events that attract hundreds of people.  Most of all, we have a lot of fun.

Heather Woodward, Program Director

Do you remember those glossy, nylon, purple fishnet stockings?   The skyscraper heels and overdone makeup? Do you remember what it feels like to hop to the beat of an illuminated 70's glam rock soundtrack (think Iggy Pop, the New York Dolls, David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust) beneath splattering neon light while listening to SOTA Cdub mixed-genre pieces? Probably not--because it hasn't happened yet! Join CW on SOTA's mainstage Friday, October 16th, at 7:30 to bring back the sensational glam that lit up a decade and listen to some fantastic work from the entire department. Class of 2010 in their last Halloween performance! Original stories, poems, and indefinables, purloined Queen, GLAM/TRANS-GLAM COSTUME CONTEST, skits, seizure-inducing lights, and more! Students $7, $10 for those who remember the bad old days of eyeliner and platforms.