Susan Zwinger
Langley, WA
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
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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
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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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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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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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Reviews
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Promotes Great Results
I had Susan in a journaling class at Fairhaven, at WWU. I was reluctant to begin a lot of the exercises sh...
– tracie Barisich
My Recent Activity
- Joseph Sunga favorited Susan Zwinger April 29, 2009
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- tracie Barisich reviewed Susan Zwinger February 19, 2009