One of the biggest challenges writers face is making decisions about the seemingly endless details of their current projects, let alone the projects they’d like to work on or begin. Whether as a separate entity or included within a current writing project, journaling about writing can help writers work through key decisions. Should I continue […]
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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Jumpstart Your Stalled Novel or Short – S500s20
What ever happened to that idea for your novel or short story? How do you know if it’s viable? If so, how do you know which elements to remove, and which to develop and how to develop them? This seminar-workshop explores the impetus for writers’ initial story ideas to understand the core of the project […]
Write From The Start I – S106S20
Write From the Start I: How to Craft a Compelling First Chapter of a Novel Like a good first date, the first chapter of a novel has to be great, and it has to be honest. What you promise the reader upfront you have to deliver. This workshop on two consecutive Saturday s for emerging […]
Write From The Start II – S108S20
Write From the Start II: How to Craft a Compelling First Chapter of a Novel Like a good first date, the first chapter of a novel has to be great, and it has to be honest. What you promise the reader upfront you have to deliver. This workshop on two consecutive Saturday s for emerging […]
Introduction to Creative Writing: Beginning to Intermediate – B104S20
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. […]