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1455 Author Series Featuring Susan Rich
1455’s will celebrate National Poetry Month with Susan Rich, who will read from her collection Gallery of Postcards and Maps and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems. EVENT DETAILS APRIL 27 | 7:00 PM EST | FREE...
1455’S MOVABLE TYPE ISSUE 14 READING: DIVERSITY & BEAUTY
Excerpt from Issue 14's Director's Cut: Beauty, it’s said, is in the eye of the beholder, which is at once a succinct and satisfactory definition of how we receive and respond to art. What’s worth celebrating, and why, is the impulse of criticism, and while it’s up to...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES FEATURING CHUCK CASCIO, DANNY OLMES AND SEAN MURPHY AT RED’S TABLE
1455 is thrilled to partner with Red’s Table for an evening of book signings, great food, and the chance to chat with three local authors. CHUCK CASCIO, Author of Never Ask "Why": Football Players' Fight for Freedom in the NFL DANNY OLMES, Author of Memoirs of an...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID EBENBACH, AUTHOR OF ‘WHAT’S LEFT TO US BY EVENING’
An unusually cold, blustery March day did not stop us from enjoying a fantastic conversation with master storyteller David Ebenbach. As always, our friends at D.C.'s Potter's House were perfect hosts, and 1455 thanks them and everyone who joined us last Sunday! I...
1455 Author Series Featuring Gayle Brandeis
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Gayle Brandeis, who will read from and discuss Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss. EVENT DETAILS APRIL 11 | 7:00 PM EST | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT 1455’s Executive Director Sean Murphy will speak...
1455 Author Series Featuring David Ebenbach
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with David Ebenbach, who will read from What’s Left to Us by Evening. EVENT DETAILS MARCH 12 | 2:00 PM EST | THE POTTER'S HOUSE, DC 1455’s Executive Director Sean Murphy will speak with David about this book, and...
1455’s MOVABLE TYPE ISSUE 13 READING: STORYTELLING
Excerpt from Issue 13's Director's Cut. With hindsight, this unpredictable path from planning a physical writers retreat (2017), to leaning into free online programming (2021) to becoming a hybrid that celebrates storytelling anywhere, anytime, serves as a metaphor...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH BIRNBACH, AUTHOR OF ‘A DAUGHTER’S KADDISH’
1455 concluded its 2022 programming with another live event, and another installment of our Wine and Words Series collaboration with Kalero Vineyard. As I read Sarah's moving and inspiring book, it occurred to me that there were (at least) two major decisions she...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH LISA WILLIAMSON ROSENBERG, AUTHOR OF ‘EMBERS ON THE WIND’
Welcome back to the 1455 Author Series. Our final event for 2022 will be live at Kalero Vineyard (part of our ongoing Wine & Words Series), featuring Sarah Birnbach reading from and discussing her novel A DAUGHTER'S KADDISH. This month our featured author is Lisa...
Wine & Words: Featuring Sarah Birnbach
Escape to Northern Virginia’s wine country for a new event series presented by 1455 and Kalero Vineyard, showcasing local and international storytellers as they present their work and share insight into the creative process, inspiration, and the person behind the...
1455 Author Series Featuring Lisa Rosenberg
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Lisa Rosenberg, who will read from Embers on the Wind. EVENT DETAILS NOVEMBER 17 | 7:00 PM | FREE EVENT 1455’s Executive Director Sean Murphy will speak with Lisa about this book, and her experiences as a...
Reflections On 1455’s First StoryFestLive
By SEAN MURPHY Executive Director, 1455 Having offered our first live programming since Covid shut the world down, it’s at once a source of pride and anxiety to recall those early months of 2020, when we struggled to ascertain: how does a public facing organization...
1455 Author Series Featuring John Lingan
1455’s Author Series continues with John Lingan, who will read from A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival. 1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with John about this book, and the events that inspired it, followed by a Q&A....
RON CHARLES TO RECEIVE 1455 STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR AWARD
1455's Storyteller of the Year Award Recognizes Outstanding Craft and Work Relevant to Current Events at Live Event Featuring Local Artists Discussing the Art of Storytelling 1455 Literary Arts, an organization committed to advancing the art and craft of storytelling,...
Movable Type Issue No. 12: Young Poets Edition
This Issue is sponsored byRead about the cover design by Morgan RyanDIRECTOR'S NOTE Having completed another successful Young Poets Contest as part of 1455’s fourth annual Summer Fest, I can confirm two things: the contest attracts more diversity and talent each...
1455 SUMMER FESTIVAL 2022: EVENT RECAP
1455’s Fourth Annual Summer Festival concluded in celebratory fashion, having presented three days of extraordinary storytelling. Once again offering free, online programming, the festival that ran from July 14 – 16 delivered a variety of content, from interviews and...
1455’S 4TH ANNUAL YOUNG POETS CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fourth Annual 1455 Young Poets Contest. The theme for this year’s contest is Freedom, and the guidelines requested the poems to reflect on or react to the contemporary sociopolitical and cultural environment (including but...
Wine & Words: Featuring Contributors from If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing
Escape to Northern Virginia’s wine country for a new event series presented by 1455 and Kalero Vineyard, showcasing local and international storytellers as they present their work and share insight into the creative process, inspiration, and the person behind the...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH COURTNEY MAUM, AUTHOR OF ‘THE YEAR OF THE HORSES’
This was not my first, um, rodeo with Courtney Maum (be warned, obligatory --and unabashed-- horse puns were sprinkled throughout our chat, but credit to both of us for, ahem, reining it in). We met virtually last year as part of the wonderful Virginia Festival of the...
Wine & Words: Featuring Constance Sayers
Escape to Northern Virginia’s wine country for a new event series presented by 1455 and Kalero Vineyard, showcasing local and international storytellers as they present their work and share insight into the creative process, inspiration, and the person behind the...