Cabell First Novelist Award With Anne de Marcken

Anne de Marcken, winner of the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for “It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over,” will give a reading and participate in a moderated Q&A session about the writing and publishing of her book on November 5th, 2025, at 7 p.m.

Per the publisher’s official synopsis, “It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over” plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.

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 23284. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks.