My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Author, Instructor, Editor
Location	Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
Introduction	Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor, teacher. Her five-star novel is What She Takes Away (Bordighera Press, 2023), and she co-authored Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA. A former development editor for Scholastic, Adele has published works in 34th Parallel, the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, Jane Friedman’s Blog, Midway, Orca, Washington Independent Review of Books, and Southern Literary Review, where she was managing editor. Her work has been anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA. Adele’s sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage, and she has taught for Manhattanville College, The Meetinghouse, Westport Writers’ Workshop. She is a member of AWP, Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, Historical Novel Society, Italian American Writers Association, National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television. Adele is a screener for the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival and a columnist for Book Marketing Matters. Her podcast is Adele Annesi on Writing. Her long-running blog is Word for Words. Her website is Adele Annesi.
Interests	Travel and music