3+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 15+ 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…...

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…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

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, 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   (766+ words) What happens when one day, one impulsive decision, one declined call is what defines the rest of your life? Alicia Upano‘s debut is a love story, it’s a natural disaster novel, and most of all, it’s a haunting reckoning…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (418+ words) Samantha Paige Rosen: When did you start writing? And when did you start identifying as a writer, if that was at a different point in your life? SPR: I know you still work from home and your day job is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (89+ words) I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith Mere by Danielle Giles M.R. James’s ghost stories All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laura Evans studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at university before…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (86+ words) In Chinese folktales, there is an intriguing concept, Cosmos in a Calabash. Imagine a magical calabash that the immortals wear on their belt. It looks as small as a flask. But if you enter into the calabash, you’ll experience a…...