1455 in The Winchester Star
Big gratitude to Robyn Taylor of the Winchester Star for providing the first official media story regarding 1455’s name change and upcoming literary festival! You can check out the piece online here, and it’s pasted, below. A few things: you can find out...
1455’s Teen Poetry Contest, Sponsored by Friends of Handley Regional Library
A prize of $500 will be given to the winner of 1455’s First Teen Poetry Contest. 1455’s first Summer Literary Festival (July 18-20) will include a special Teen Poetry Reading, featuring Maia Siegel, who is co-judging the contest (along with writers on the...
Author Series with Cindy Ross
The 1455 Author Series at Handley Regional Library continues with Cindy Ross, who will read from her latest book The World is Our Classroom. Cindy had her formal education in Fine Arts Painting, attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She...
Author Series with Cliff Garstang
The 1455 Author Series at Handley Regional Library continues with Cliff Garstang, who will read from his latest book The Shaman of Turtle Valley. Cliff is a fiction writer and former international lawyer. His novel in stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, won the Library...
VCLA’s Rebrand: Let’s Party Like it’s 1455
New name. Same organization. Only more so. The Virginia Center for Literary Arts (VCLA) is now 1455. Who? Why? What? How? Where? Let me tell you a story. I’m a lifelong and very proud native son of The Old Dominion, and as such the original name Virginia Center...
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