4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (509+ words) Anna Heyward has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vogue, and more, and studied animal behavior and welfare science at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. In Living with Freddie: How a…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (361+ words) Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Guernica, and more. A winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, he spent six years as a political…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (419+ words) In her debut novel, The Light in Other Houses, Anna Marschalk-Burns explores motherhood, infertility, desire, and found family. The novel follows Zoe, who returns to her hometown of Minneapolis after years of failed fertility treatments and finds herself drawn into…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (150+ words) Vatomsky is a writer whose work has appeared in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian Magazine. They were shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize in 2024 and are also the…...

1+ week, 6+ 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, 6+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1825+ words) First Summer by Ekin Oklap is a tender, atmospheric coming of age that starts with a simple premise: a new girl moves in across the street, completely upending the narrator’s life. Clara and the narrator melt towards each other during…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (319+ words) Friedlander is a writer and graphic designer from Kansas who now lives in New York. She is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Sensual World will be published by Catapult on March 23, 2027. Debutiful…...

1+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (430+ words) Threaded through the friendship story is an unflinching look at race, class, and privilege, and the quiet, corrosive weight of what is owed between people who love each other unevenly. In the interview that follows, Mutonji speaks about naming the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) We asked Bazzett 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?...