Alice Winn has won the 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year. Her winning book, In Memoriam, published by Alfred A. Knopf, is a devastating love story between two young men that moves from the sheltered idyll of their public school to the unspeakable horrors of the Western Front during World War I.

Alice Winn grew up in Paris and was educated in the U.K. She has a degree in English literature from Oxford University. She lives in Brooklyn.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award celebrates the VCU MFA in Creative Writing program’s year long novel workshop, the first in the nation and one of the few still in existence. The winning author receives a $5,000 prize and participates in an event, traditionally in person, with two additional panelists, most often the agent and editor of the winning book. The event, open to all, focuses on the creation, publication and promotion of the author's first novel.

Winn will receive the award during a public event at VCU on November 19, 2024. The event will involve a reading, a moderated discussion, and a Q&A. Details of the event and additional materials will be made available at www.firstnovelist.vcu.edu/event