1+ week, 5+ day ago   (201+ words) In her debut short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, Abby Manzella explores man-made disasters, climate change, the pandemic, and imagined future catastrophes. Moving between realism and the speculative, the collection features everything from children telling ghost stories to characters…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (285+ words) Elina Katrin is a poet and writer whose work explores migration, memory, womanhood, and the body. Her debut poetry collection, Overwintered, is forthcoming from Trio House Press. Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Overwintered, designed by Coral Sue…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (123+ words) Kearsley began her career as a business journalist before becoming a ghostwriter for Fortune 500 tech and finance companies. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Forbes, and elsewhere, and she writes the humor newsletter Does That…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (569+ words) Amanda Nyren: You’re a dating columnist who’s written a romantic comedy about how hard modern dating is. From your expert perspective, why is it so hard? Annie Lord: Apps and the way that they abstract people has made it all…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1596+ words) Kitten by Stacey Yu, one of Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debut Books, follows protagonist Katie, who is fresh out of university and desperate not to enter the adult world quite yet. When she goes to the Hamptons with her boyfriend James,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (596+ words) Leila Renee is a writer whose fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction and a Fulbright Award, and an MFA graduate of Syracuse University, she now makes her…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (578+ words) I caught up with Newton to discuss writing a novel from the inside out, how screenwriting shaped her approach to fiction, capturing a specific moment in New York’s cultural history, and why embracing life’s messiness became the book’s guiding principle....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) We asked Lauter to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers can get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (100+ words) Blue Selvage will be published on November 1, 2026, by Tupelo Press and is available for preorder now. Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Blue Selvage, designed by Ann Aspell with art from Joanne Dugan, along with a Q&A…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (486+ words) The following is our exchange, conducted by email and edited and condensed for clarity. Doug Jones: This novel is a feat of the imagination. The cat narrator is clever, uproarious at times, is knowledgeable about music, pop culture, art, film,…...