Dispatch #101
Panel Discussion: Pitching During the Pandemic On August 17 we held this panel with three WGA Screenwriters where we asked them the question: How has COVID-19 Changed the field of Creative Writing, and in particular the field of Screenwriting. Well, they gave us the answer. It has really changed the way screenwriters do business. We…
Dispatch #100
Pandemic Poetry: Poetry of social movements In May, 2023, we hosted this amazing event in-person on the poetry of the pandemic. We focussed on the social movements during the Pandemic and the poetry that it inspired. I’m sharing it a little bit later than I expected to because we had some problems with the footage…
Dispatch #099
Pitching During the Pandemic How has the Coronavirus Pandemic and its surrounding cultural turbulence affected a generation of creative writers, specifically Hollywood screenwriters, and how will it continue to affect storytelling in the entertainment industry in years to come? These questions and more will be discussed in this special project developed by SF Creative Writing…
Dispatch #098
Messages by Pete Mladinic In the city messengers in long black coats scuttled across an avenue. Lizard asked Uncle Baxter what were the messages. You are alone, as I am; we are together and alone is in all of them. But the details only the messengers know. Soon ones to whom they’ll be delivered will…
Dispatch #097
Disco by Colleen Curlin Ever since we locked the doors, a little orange sequin follows me around the house. Shining up at me from the closet floor, ready to twirl for the mirror in jumpsuits with fringe appliques my harvest moon is missing the drama of eyelashes spidering from closed lids lost in a beat.…
Dispatch #096
Pandemic Halloween by Ethan Stanton Magic princesses wandered the empty street while cold witches at the door pointed in justice to their signs reading as indicated by the stated policy of the California Department of Health there will be no candy in 2020. This night is, now, like all other nights this haunted year masks…
Dispatch #095
Dispatches from Quarantine Presents Kristina Wong & Rebecca Solnit in Conversation San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Presents: Dispatches from Quarantine: Kristina Wong in Conversation with Rebecca Solnit How has the Coronavirus Pandemic affected a generation of creative writers and the playwrights of our culture? How will it continue to affect storytelling…
Dispatch #094
First Person Lonesome: Writing About the Covid-Experience How does one write about the experience of COVID? It’s universal–the virus has covered the world, but it is also particular. Some of us were home, others “front line workers.” Many of had mild cases, others very severe. And almost all of us spent a lot of time…
Dispatch #093
Making Sense of Pandemic Era as a Writer – May 12, 2023 – So yesterday, May 11, was the day that Covid-19 Public Health emergency in the United States ended. I sit keenly aware of the irony of this as I have just woken up at 5:00 in the morning with a feverish three-year-old with…
Dispatch #092
Capital Philosophy by Drew Pisarra I forget when Reality became a genre, ‘though I do recall when Lies were recast as Alt Facts. As for what’s Sane that’s always been up for debate. I tried but failed to find Logic in Wittgenstein. I do better with Nietzsche, Plato, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Marx, Arendt, and Descartes… Yet…
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