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Please join us in congratulating the Spring 2026 Writing Award recipients! 🏆📝⭐️Thank you to everyone who submitted their...
04/09/2026

Please join us in congratulating the Spring 2026 Writing Award recipients! 🏆📝⭐️

Thank you to everyone who submitted their work for consideration.

Stop by Hibbs 308 tomorrow to snack on some free pizza and browse course offering for next semester!! 🍕📓✏️
03/18/2026

Stop by Hibbs 308 tomorrow to snack on some free pizza and browse course offering for next semester!! 🍕📓✏️

It is that time of year again! Our writing awards are officially open. Check out the link in our bio to submit 🏆📝
03/02/2026

It is that time of year again!

Our writing awards are officially open. Check out the link in our bio to submit 🏆📝

The departments of English and History are excited to invite students on the quintessential English experience: two week...
02/24/2026

The departments of English and History are excited to invite students on the quintessential English experience: two weeks of living and learning inside the walls of Christ College, University of Cambridge. ✈️🧳

See John Milton’s original drafts. Read his great epic poem, Paradise Lost. Reproduce both as Milton and his first printers did—with quill and movable type. Ramble among the same gardens as Charles Darwin, collecting beetles and drawing plants as he did. 🪲🌿

Info session with free pizza this Thursday at noon! 🍕

The Visiting Writer’s Series is holding a reading featuring two of VCU MFA Alumni! Be sure to tune in on Thursday, Febru...
02/16/2026

The Visiting Writer’s Series is holding a reading featuring two of VCU MFA Alumni! Be sure to tune in on Thursday, February 19th to listen to the very talented Lea Marshall and AJ White 📚🎙️✏️

The Cabell First Novelist Award is seeking community readers! 📖🏆This is a great opportunity to read new books and contri...
02/10/2026

The Cabell First Novelist Award is seeking community readers! 📖🏆

This is a great opportunity to read new books and contribute to the selection process. Email [email protected] for information on how you can participate.

The VCU Visiting Writers Series is hosting a joint-reading featuring recently hired VCU Creative Writing faculty Edgar K...
02/02/2026

The VCU Visiting Writers Series is hosting a joint-reading featuring recently hired VCU Creative Writing faculty Edgar Kunz and Devon Walker-Figueroa! 🗣️📚

This talk will also be available via Zoom.

Happy first day of classes! We are looking forward to watching campus spring into life as everyone returns. 🐝🌸🍎
01/12/2026

Happy first day of classes! We are looking forward to watching campus spring into life as everyone returns. 🐝🌸🍎

Still registering for classes ?No worries! Check out some of these awesome courses that will be offered this upcoming se...
12/08/2025

Still registering for classes ?

No worries! Check out some of these awesome courses that will be offered this upcoming semester. 📖🍎

Join us tomorrow, December 4th in the Temple building, to listen to our talented undergrads read their original works of...
12/03/2025

Join us tomorrow, December 4th in the Temple building, to listen to our talented undergrads read their original works of poetry!

This is a great opportunity to engage with peers in the writing community and celebrate their amazing creativity.

We hope to see you there! 🍪🖋️

Interested in pursuing a MFA at VCU but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck! VCU MFA Program Info sessions are com...
11/10/2025

Interested in pursuing a MFA at VCU but don’t know where to start?

You’re in luck! VCU MFA Program Info sessions are coming up and here to answer all of your questions about the program. 📝 🍎

The zoom links to the info sessions can be found in our bio.

This Wednesday, November 5th, Cabell First Novelist Winner Anne de Marcken is coming to The James Cabell Library!Come he...
11/03/2025

This Wednesday, November 5th, Cabell First Novelist Winner Anne de Marcken is coming to The James Cabell Library!

Come hear the winner of the 2025 prize talk about and read an excerpt from her novel, “It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over”. 🐦‍⬛🧟‍♀️

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Hibbs Hall, Suite 306, 900 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA
23284

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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(804) 828-1331

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