This advanced fiction-writing workshop aims to inspire and encourage writers to create their best short and long-form fiction through weekly instruction, analysis and submissions. We explore all craft elements in depth, from audience and backstory to transitions and voice. Our critique method emphasizes exploration and discovery by analyzing each writer’s work to understand which elements […]
Adele Annesi
Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher, and co-author of Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA. A founder of the Ridgefield Writers Conference, book editor for Word for Words, and former development editor for Scholastic Publishing, Adele writes articles, columns, posts, reviews, and stories for venues such as 34th Parallel, Fringe Blog, Hamline University’s Lit Link, Hersam Acorn Media, Midway Journal, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, the Washington Independent Review of Books and Southern Literary Review, where she served as managing editor. Her work also has been anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA in creative writing. Her Italian citizenship essay is part of the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, and her sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage. Adele teaches writing and English at the LVA School and serves as the poetry and short story judge for the Literary Contest Awards for the Danbury Cultural Commission. Adele is a member of the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association and Pen America, and often sets her novels and short stories in the land of sunflowers. Her long-running editing blog for writers is Word for Words, and her website is AdeleAnnesi.com.
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Intro to Creative Writing: Beginner-Intermediate
This interactive workshop explores the key creative techniques of writing poetry, personal narrative, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and the novel to inspire writers to develop their unique voice, style, interest, and focus. We also consider the craft critique and revision, with writers can bring up to five pages of their work to share each week. […]