Adele Annesi

Adele Annesi is an award-winning writer, editor and writing instructor. Her five-star, bestselling cultural heritage novel is What She Takes Away (Bordighera Press, 2023), and she is co-author of Now What? The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA.

A founder of the Ridgefield Writers Conference and the Muse & Music evening cabaret series, Adele is a book editor for Word for Words, LLC, and a former development editor for Scholastic Publishing. Her articles, columns, reviews and stories have appeared in 34th Parallel, Authors Publish Magazine, Dawntreader, Feile-Festa, Fresh Ink, Fringe Blog, Hamline University’s Lit Link, Hotmetalpress, Jane Friedman’s Blog, Midway Journal, Miranda Literary Magazine, Orca, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pyramid, The Responder, The Ridgefield Press, Tertulia Magazine, Trillium Literary Journal, the Washington Independent Review of Books and Southern Literary Review, where she was managing editor.

Adele’s work has been anthologized for Chatter House Press and Fairfield University, where she received an MFA in creative writing. Her essay on the journey to Italian citizenship is among the Clarion Award-winning Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, and she received the Editor's Choice award from the National Library of Poetry. Adele’s sudden fiction has been adapted for the stage, and she has served as poetry and short story judge for the Danbury Cultural Commission.

Adele teaches for The Meetinghouse and the Ridgefield Library She also taught and led mentoring programs for Westport Writers' Workshop, and led a scene development workshop for Manhattanville University's MFA in creative writing.

Adele is a member of Acorn Storiers, AWP, the Connecticut Film and TV Alliance, Historical Novel Society, Italian American Writers Association, National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television, National Organization of Italian-American Women and Ridgefield Historical Society.

Adele serves as a screener for the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival and is a columnist for The Authority and Book Marketing Matters. Her podcast is Adele Annesi on Writing, and her long-running editor’s blog for writers is Word for Words. Her website is Adele Annesi.