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Alice Winn, winner of the 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for In Memoriam, gives a reading and participates in a moderated Q&A session about the writing and publishing of her book. In Memoriam tells a tale of forbidden love between two young men as it follows them from their sheltered English boarding school to the horrors of the Western front in World War I.
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.
About the Author
Winn grew up in Paris and was educated in the United Kingdom. She has a degree in English literature from Oxford University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In Memoriam received the 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and won the British Book Award for Debut Fiction. It was named a GMA Buzz Pick and a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR and The Washington Post. In Memoriam also was longlisted for the Center for Fiction Debut Novel prize.
The New York Times Book Review writes that in In Memoriam, Winn’s “exquisite pacing lives in her syntax as much as her plot, giving vim and vigor to every line.” Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians, calls the novel “magnificent — dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of ‘Brideshead Revisited’ and ‘Atonement.’ I loved it.”
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.
For more information please visit our First Novelist web page