Since 2024, our Board of Directors has been inviting writers and artists to our villa in Sezze, Italy, when space is available, outside of our regular residency programs. No applications. No requirements. Just uninterrupted time for guests to focus on their work.

Annie DeWitt is the Founder of Enliven Endeavors, a literary, film and talent agency representing multi-hyphenates in the modern media sphere. She is forever grateful to Giancarlo DiTrapano and Tyrant Books for publishing her debut novel White Nights In Split Town City which has received accolades from The New York Times, BookForum, Interview Magazine, Publishers Weekly, amongst others. Her story collection in-progress – Closest Without Going Over – was shortlisted for the Mary McCarthy Prize. Stories in the collection have been translated into Latvian and Swedish and have appeared widely in the U.S. Annie is currently at work on her sophomore novel, BENEFICIO, which she grateful to the DiTrapano Foundation for reviving. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Tin House, The Believer, Guernica, Esquire, BOMB, Electric Literature, Bookforum, NOON, The LA Review of Books, The Iowa Review, The American Reader, art+culture, Poets and Writers, and The Faster Times, amongst others. DeWitt was the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and was a Founding Editor of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art. She founded the Roxbury Writers Residency at her then home in the Catskills and has taught for many years at various colleges including: Columbia University, Barnard, Bard, Skidmore and The New School.