1455 STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR LISA LING: RECAP
The Storyteller of the Year Award Recognizes Outstanding Narrative Skill, and Stories Relevant to Current Events at Multi-day Festival Featuring 200+ Authors, Poets, and Creatives Discussing the Art of Storytelling RECAP FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEAN MURPHY My...
1455 Teen Poetry Contest Winners & Their Poems
Grand Prize ($5,000 Award): “At a Wake, I Confront” by Yvanna Vien Tica Second Prize: “Elegy for Our Pseudohistories” by Yejin Suh Third Prize: “Letters from Pennsylvania to Washington: for Ellie Chu” by Stella Lei Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)...
1455’S 3RD ANNUAL TEEN POETRY CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Third Annual 1455 Teen Poetry Contest. The theme for this year’s contest is Finding Community During Crisis, and the guidelines requested the poems to reflect on or react to the contemporary sociopolitical and cultural...
1455 & Alamo Drafthouse Winchester Present: Charles Casillo, author of ELIZABETH AND MONTY
Big thanks to our partners in crime at the awesome Alamo Drafthouse Winchester (and cohorts Andy Gyurisin and Brad Gullickson) for helping facilitate a wonderful and enlightening conversation with Charles Casillo, author of ELIZABETH AND MONTY. At 1455 we’re...
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