Adele Annesi

adele 1 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 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 has served as the poetry and short story judge for the Literary Contest Awards for the Danbury Cultural Commission. Adele also lectures and leads creative writing and advanced fiction workshops for the Westport Writers’ Workshop. A member of the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association and Pen America, Adele often sets her novels and stories in the land of sunflowers. Her long-running editing blog for writers is Word for Words: Editor's Blog for Writers, at wordforwords.blogspot.com, and her website is Adele Annesi, at adeleannesi.blogspot.com.

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Advanced Fiction Writing (Condensed)
Manuscript Course

with Adele Annesi

This workshop for short and long-form fiction aims to inspire writers to create their best work through instruction, analysis, critique and practice before year’s end. We explore all key craft elements, from audience, backstory and structure to theme, tone and voice. Critique and revision methods emphasize thorough analysis of each writer’s work, and each week […]

New… Write From the Start: How to
Craft Strong First Chapters for Your Novel

with Adele Annesi

You know a great start of a story when you read one. But how do you craft strong first chapters that form the backbone of a novel and deliver what they promise? This workshop explores the purpose, planning and potential of all-important first chapters of long-form fiction and how they impact storyline and character development. […]

Roll the Dice? Better Ways to Parse Critique
and Implement Feedback

with Adele Annesi

As writers, we’re often our own worst critics, except when we get negative or unexpected feedback from others. This seminar considers the types of feedback writers receive from agents, editors and fellow writers, and how to evaluate and implement (or not) that feedback. We’ll also consider the feedback mindset—how to prepare for and move through […]

Advanced Fiction Writing
Plus Manuscript

with Adele Annesi

This advanced workshop aims to inspire 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, backstory and structure to theme, tone and voice. Our critique and revision methods emphasize thorough analysis of each writer’s work to discover which elements achieve […]

Introduction to Creative Writing:
Beginner to Intermediate

with Adele Annesi

This interactive workshop explores the key creative concepts of poetry, personal narrative, creative nonfiction, drama and playwriting, short fiction and longer fiction to inspire writers to develop their individual voice, style, interests and focus. We also study the art of critique and revision, and each week writers can bring pages of their work to share. […]