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Susan Mandala Workshops
New Creative Writing Workshops!
Explore • Experiment • Write
Love to write but stalled in your practice? Enjoy prompt-and-share but looking for new techniques to
expand your stylistic range? Join Sunderland Lit & Phil member Susan Mandala, PhD, for monthly
online writing workshops that offer something truly different.
We work on:
- Seeing patterns in language you’ve never noticed before
- Understanding why they matter to your craft
- Harnessing this knowledge to achieve novel effects in your writing
So if you want to:
x Experiment with style as a deliberate choice
x Achieve effects with language you didn’t realise were possible
x Expand your range
x Sharpen your revising and editing skills
Join me for these workshops!
In a typical session, we mix language discovery (no specialist
knowledge required), guided writing experiments, discussion, and reflection.
The emphasis throughout is on noticing, experimenting, learning, and adding to your writer’s toolkit.

