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Anne de Marcken, winner of the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over, gives a reading and participates in a moderated Q&A session about the writing and publishing of her book. It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over brings a new perspective to a zombie novel telling the tale of the heroine from a unique perspective.

The event is free and open to all and will be held in person but will also be live-streamed through Zoom. The in-person location will be James Branch Cabell Library, Room 303, 901 Park Ave., Richmond, Va. 23219. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks.

Registration for this event is forthcoming

About the Author

de Marcken is a queer interdisciplinary artist and writer living on unceded land of the Coast Salish people in Olympia, Washington. She is the founding editor and publisher of the 3rd Thing.

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is the co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize. It also won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for fiction and the Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Publisher’s Weekly writes that in It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, “De Marcken never loses sight of the grand themes of life, death, and decay, as the narrator riffs cleverly on the nature of her condition (‘Zombies used to be drug addicts, television watchers, videogame players. Now zombies are zombies. Consumers are consumers’). It amounts to a sharp and weighty depiction of what does and doesn’t make someone human.”

For special accommodations or to register offline contact Ryan Larson, event manager, at (804) 828-0593 or open_in_newrbpander@vcu.edu.

Sponsors

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is presented on behalf of VCU’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Sponsors include: the James Branch Cabell Library Associates, VCU Libraries, the Friends of VCU Libraries, the VCU Department of English and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

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Anne de Marcken, winner of the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over, gives a reading and participates in a moderated Q&A session about the writing and publishing of her book. It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over brings a new perspective to a zombie novel telling the tale of the heroine from a unique perspective.

The event is free and open to all and will be held in person but will also be live-streamed through Zoom. The in-person location will be James Branch Cabell Library, Room 303, 901 Park Ave., Richmond, Va. 23219. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks.

Registration for this event is forthcoming

About the Author

de Marcken is a queer interdisciplinary artist and writer living on unceded land of the Coast Salish people in Olympia, Washington. She is the founding editor and publisher of the 3rd Thing.

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is the co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize. It also won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for fiction and the Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Publisher’s Weekly writes that in It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, “De Marcken never loses sight of the grand themes of life, death, and decay, as the narrator riffs cleverly on the nature of her condition (‘Zombies used to be drug addicts, television watchers, videogame players. Now zombies are zombies. Consumers are consumers’). It amounts to a sharp and weighty depiction of what does and doesn’t make someone human.”

For special accommodations or to register offline contact Ryan Larson, event manager, at (804) 828-0593 or open_in_newrbpander@vcu.edu.

Sponsors

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is presented on behalf of VCU’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Sponsors include: the James Branch Cabell Library Associates, VCU Libraries, the Friends of VCU Libraries, the VCU Department of English and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

Withfriends believes in building financial resilience for indie bookstores through community support.

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When & Where
Nov 5, 2025, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: EST
Free


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