“If anything is within the powers
and province of humankind, believe
that it is within your own compass also.”

—Marcus Aurelius

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

Support the Award

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award has flourished thanks to the generosity of individual donors who have joined forces with the VCU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the VCU Department of English, the James Branch Cabell Library Associates, the VCU Friends of the Library, VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, the VCU Graduate School, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

Donors like you are making a huge difference in the quality of the program we put on and in the national recognition it brings to the University. We are sincerely grateful to every person and group who has made a donation, whether it was ten dollars or a thousand. Mille grazie! Merci beaucoup! Tusind tak!

Please consider making a gift in support of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. You will help advance the literary arts both in the Richmond area and nationally. Your gift is tax deductible as allowed by law. No pen is needed; you can use the link below.

As always, thank you for your support!