1455 PRESENTS MOVABLE TYPE ISSUE 10 READING: POWER
(Excerpt from Issue 10’s Director’s Cut): According to Plato, the measure of a man is what he does with power. George Orwell, who knew a thing or two about what drives human behavior—and with a couple more centuries of history than Plato was privy...
Seeking Proposal Submissions for 4th Annual Summer Festival
Annual Event Returns for the Fourth Year! 1455 Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization seeking to advance the appreciation of and passion for both creativity and community, seeks proposals for presentations, workshops, craft talks and creative readings for its 4th...
1455 & VA Festival of the Book: Writing In Your Life, Day by Day
It remains an honor for 1455 to partner with and support the Virginia Festival of the Book (which officially kicks off today: check out the complete schedule of events here). Here’s the pre-event blurb: Ron Hogan (Our Endless and Proper Work) and Lisa Tener (The...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH KRIS O’SHEE, AUTHOR OF ‘OUR LAST BLUE MOON’
As I mentioned during last night’s conversation with this month’s featured author Kris O’Shee, I came to her memoir Our Last Blue Moon with my own backstory: I am a proud alum of George Mason University, and 1455 is delighted to partner with the Alan...
The Blackened Blues LIVE: Poetry and Music with Sean Murphy and Quentin Walston
The Barns of Rose Hill partnered with 1455 Literary Arts for a special reading with Sean Murphy, who read from his new collection The Blackened Blues, accompanied by pianist Quentin Walston. The Blackened Blues, which Dr. Cornel West has called “a powerful and...
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