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 […]
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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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. […]
Advanced Fiction MS – F301S20
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 […]
Zoom – The Plot Thickens Z104W20
The Plot Thickens (and So Should the Subplot) This immersive, online seminar-study defines and examines the use of plot and subplot in short and long fiction, with a focus on full-length upmarket and literary works. We’ll start with an overview of how plot and subplot function separately and together to propel and develop narrative and […]