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1455 Author Series Featuring Susan Rich
1455’s Author Series continues with Susan Rich, who will read from Blue Atlas. EVENT DETAILS APRIL 9 | 6:00 PM EST | Facebook Live 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Susan about this book and the craft of poetry, followed by a Q&A. ABOUT...
1455 Author Series Featuring Cynthia Manick
1455’s Author Series continues featuring host Sean Murphy in discussion with Cynthia Manick, who will read from No Sweet Without Brine. EVENT DETAILS FEBRUARY 6 | 6:00 PM EST | Facebook Live 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Cynthia about...
1455 Author Series Featuring Stephen Kiernan
1455’s Author Series continues with Stephen Kiernan, who will read from The Glass Chateau. EVENT DETAILS DECEMBER 12 | 6:00 PM EST | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Stephen about this book and the craft of fiction,...
1455 & PBF Present: A Reading with Sean Murphy
It has been my extreme pleasure to collaborate with (and enthusiastically support) Winchester's Petter Bullough Foundation. More about their history and mission here, and some previous programming we've done together, featuring the amazing L. Renée here. We were...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH JENNIFER LANG, AUTHOR OF ‘PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND’
"I married this place as much as I married this person." In PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND, Jennifer Lang explores and interrogates some of the big, if most difficult questions many of us face at some point in our lives: What is Home? What does it mean to put roots down and/or...
1455 and PBF Present a Poetry Reading & Conversation with Sean Murphy
Join us at 5:30pm on Thursday October 5 for a poetry reading in the gardens of the Peter Bullough Foundation with poet, executive director of 1455 Literary Arts, and author of Rhapsodies in Blue, Sean Murphy. Following his first collection The Blackened Blues, his...
1455 Author Series Featuring Alyson Weinberg
1455’s Author Series continues with Alyson Gold Weinberg, who will read from Bellow & Hiss. EVENT DETAILS NOVEMBER 5 | 2:00 PM EST | The Potter's House, Washington D.C. 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Alyson about this book and the...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH BEN PURKERT, AUTHOR OF ‘THE MEN CAN’T BE SAVED’
Writers strikes. Fear and Loathing of all-things-AI. Cutbacks within the industry and academia. One could be forgiven for assuming it's all bad news all the time, so when a genuine feel-good story unfolds within our literary world, we should celebrate accordingly. Ben...
1455 STORYFEST 2023: EVENT RECAP
1455’s Fifth Annual StoryFest concluded in celebratory fashion, having once again offered free, online programming that showcased extraordinary storytelling. The event, which occurred July 14 – 15, delivered a variety of content, from interviews and readings to...
1455 Author Series Featuring Jennifer Lang
1455’s Author Series continues with Jennifer Lang, who will read from Places We Left Behind. EVENT DETAILS SEPTEMBER 19 | 7:00 PM EST | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Jennifer about this book and the craft of memoir,...
1455’S 5TH ANNUAL YOUNG POETS CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fifth Annual 1455 Young Poets Contest. The theme for this year’s contest is Connection, and the guidelines requested the poems to reflect on or react to the contemporary sociopolitical and cultural environment (including...
WHAT WRITERS TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PERSEVERANCE
The first rule of writing is to understand, and eventually embrace the fact that there are no rules. There are also no short-cuts. (Sorry, posers.) Writing, like life, is ultimately all about balance. And how well you can maintain it. Or, how well you attempt to...
1455’S MOVABLE TYPE ISSUE 15 READING
1455's annual State of the Art issue was an absolute mic drop: packed with content, insight, and art. If you've not yet reviewed this issue, set aside a few hours and dig in: you'll discover fresh insights from Jon Madof, who has not only deftly navigated the...
1455 Author Series Featuring Ben Purkert
1455’s Author Series continues with Ben Purkert, who will read from The Men Can’t Be Saved. EVENT DETAILS AUGUST 15 | 7:00 PM EST | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Ben about this book and the craft of fiction, followed...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH DAN BRADY, AUTHOR OF SONGS IN E—
The 1455 Author Series continued with local poet and literary MVP Dan Brady. As always, it's wonderful to discuss craft and process in a live setting, and our thanks to the amazing Potter's House for being such excellent partners! (Find out more about them and their...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH W. DAVID HUBBARD, POET & POLYMATH
lt was not officially Spring until we decided it was, and we decided it was the other weekend with another live event, and another installment of our Wine and Words Series collaboration with Kalero Vineyard. It's always a special joy to chat with a local writer,...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH, AUTHOR OF ‘GALLERY OF POSTCARDS AND MAPS’
National Poetry Month would not have been complete if 1455 didn't feature a poet! It was therefore my extreme pleasure to have time to chat with poet, teacher, and literary activist Susan Rich, who has not one, but two recent books, both of which come highly...
1455 Author Series Featuring Dan Brady
1455’s Author Series continues with Dan Brady, who will read from Songs in E——. EVENT DETAILS JUNE 4 | 2:00 PM EST | FREE LIVE EVENT 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Dan about this book and the craft of poetry, followed by a Q&A....
1455 Wine & Words Featuring David Hubbard
1455’s Wine & Words series continues at Kalero Vineyard with Wayne David Hubbard, who will read from Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe. EVENT DETAILS MAY 7 | 4:00 PM EST | FREE EVENT 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with David...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH GAYLE BRANDEIS, AUTHOR OF ‘DRAWING BREATH’
April is going to be a busy month, and we kicked off programming last night with our Author Series, featuring Gayle Brandeis. One of the benefits of running 1455 is having the constant opportunity to meet (and read) the work of extraordinary authors. As is usually the...