1455 in The Winchester Star
Big gratitude to Robyn Taylor of the Winchester Star for providing the first official media story regarding 1455’s name change and upcoming literary festival! You can check out the piece online here, and it’s pasted, below. A few things: you can find out...
1455’s Teen Poetry Contest, Sponsored by Friends of Handley Regional Library
A prize of $500 will be given to the winner of 1455’s First Teen Poetry Contest. 1455’s first Summer Literary Festival (July 18-20) will include a special Teen Poetry Reading, featuring Maia Siegel, who is co-judging the contest (along with writers on the...
VCLA AUTHOR SERIES AT HANDLEY LIBRARY, VOL. 6: ED AYMAR & ANGIE KIM
All of the readings thus far in VCLA’s Author Series have been special, but it’s possible this was the most organic –and symbolic– one yet. I was first introduced to novelist Ed Aymar via a mutual friend (who in turn was introduced to me by a...
VCLA Author Series at Handley Library, Vol. 5: Tim Denevi
It was fantastic to collaborate again with the great folks from my alma mater, George Mason University. My friend Matt Davis, who directs the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center (and who was with us for Ahmed Naji’s reading in January), returned to Handley...
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