All events are free and open to the public. The series is presented on behalf of VCU's MFA in creative writing program in partnership with the James Branch Cabell Library Associates and VCU Libraries. Additional sponsors are the VCU Department of English, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. Upcoming Visiting Writers events will be posted here and on our events page.
Anne de Marcken has won the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the VCU MFA in Creative Writing Program, and we are celebrating together April 4 -5, 2025! First come, first served for events listed below. We look forward to celebrating with you!
Zoë Gadegbeku is the 2023 winner of the Rebecca Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize for outstanding short fiction. Her story “Of Flowers and Sorrows,” published in v20n3 in the spring of 2023, was selected by our editors from short fiction published by Blackbird over the previous two-year period.
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