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Adele Annesi

Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA. A founder of the Ridgefield Writers Conference and Muse & Music, a book editor for Word for Words, LLC, and a former development editor for Scholastic, Adele writes articles, columns, posts, reviews, and stories for venues such as 34th Parallel, Authors Publish Magazine, Epiphany, Feile-Festa, Fresh Ink, Fringe Blog, Hamline University’s Lit Link, Hersam Acorn Media, Hotmetalpress, Midway Journal, Miranda Literary Magazine, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pyramid, 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 essay on Italian citizenship is among the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, and her sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage. Adele has taught writing and English at Naugatuck Valley Community College and the LVA School American English Institute. She also served as the poetry and short story judge for the Literary Contest Awards for the Danbury Cultural Commission. A member of Pen America, Adele often sets her fiction in the land of sunflowers. Her long-running editor’s blog for writers is wordforwords.blogspot.com; her website is adeleannesi.blogspot.com.

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Scene by Scene:
How to Create Compelling Scenes in Fiction

with Adele Annesi

Scenes are the building blocks of fiction, but what makes a scene strong, fully realized and effective, and why do some scenes fall short? This workshop explores all these aspects and more. We’ll consider such key elements as backstory, interior and exterior dialogue, the role of setting, and how to develop character and advance plot […]

Returning… Advanced Fiction – Manuscript Course*

with Adele Annesi

This advanced workshop inspires writers to create their best short and long-form fiction through instruction, analysis, critique and practice. We explore all craft elements in depth—from audience and backstory to theme, tone and voice. Our critique method emphasizes thoughtful analyses of each writer’s work to discover which elements achieve the writer’s purpose, or not, and […]

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