Susan Zwinger

Langley, WA

Susan Zwinger

Professional Whidbey Island Writers’ Association(2005-08) MFA Creative Writing -- Professor of Nonfiction Ce... More About Me »

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Listings offered in: Essay Writing, Learning Skills

Essay Writing

The Joy of Revision

The sign of a serious writer, one who wants every word to count, is the ability to revise. We will begin with ot…

1 session available for $195.00
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Learning Skills

The Writer's Brain

What an infinite, complex, and astonishing treasure house we have at our disposal, yet use only a small portion.…
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The Nuts and Bolts of Creative Prose

Is your prose sometimes flat as road kill? Do you hope to write that wonderful memoir, novel, or nonfiction book…
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The Nonfiction Essay

The art of the essay has increased in quality and quantity in the last century to become a very expressive genre…
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The Joys and Practicality of a Travel Journal

Many travelers dutifully take a blank notebook with a beautiful cover on their journey, only to fill the first f…
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The Illustrated Journal for Heart, Art and Science

Great minds throughout the centuries have kept journals, from Leonardo da Vinci to John James Audubon. These gre…
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Poetry in the Wild (Prose Writers Will Also Find this Useful)

Beautiful language begins of this earth, not in abstraction. Good writers, poets in particular, use all their se…
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The Donkey's Alchemy: Transforming Journal Notes Into Usable Prose

You have piles of raw notes, oodles of interviews, pages of research, moments of inspired writing. How do you fo…
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Poetry Workshop for Advanced Poets

Poets will share their work with the group in a workshop setting, as well as acquire new skills and approaches t…
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- Advanced
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The Illustrated Field Journal for the Naturalist

All good science, art, and writing are based on keen observation. Close observation is learned by recording what…
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Symbols, Dreams and Memories: Access to the Unconscious Mind for Writers

Man is a symbol-making animal. Our drive to speak in symbolic language predates all written language and allows …
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Leaping Poetry and Duende

Ah, the dark of winter. What better time to flirt with ghosts! Duende, as described by Lorca, Borges, Neruda, an…
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Poetry Workshop for Beginning Poets

This course will offer a series of dynamic exercises to inspire new poets or those who have never written verse …
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- Beginner
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The Craft of Nonfiction and the Nonfiction Workshop

Every August and January, the Whidbey Island Writer’s Association (WIWA) Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing…
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- Advanced
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