Before and After the Book Deal: A Conversation with Courtney Maum
Join 1455 for a special Virginia Festival of the Book event featuring Courtney Maum and her book Before and After the Book Deal. Acclaimed author Courtney Maum shares everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask, in...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: WHITNEY COLLINS
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Whitney Collins, who will read from her collection Big Bad. Whitney is the author of the short story collection, BIG BAD (Sarabande Books), which won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. In addition, Whitney...
1455 Presents: “WRITTEN IN ARLINGTON,” A READING & DISCUSSION
On behalf of 1455, it’s my pleasure and honor to partner with The Anacostia Swim Club, presenting events in January, February, and March. Our first, a reading from and discussion about the wonderful anthology Written in Arlington, took place yesterday, and video...
1455’s Movable Type #3: The Political Imperative
During early autumn, 2020 (you know, five thousand years ago), while envisioning what I hoped the third issue of 1455’s MOVABLE TYPE might be, I resigned myself to the inevitability that, by the time of its publication, it would be dated. In fact, and against...
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