Phoebe Greenwood is a London-based journalist who was a freelance correspondent in Jerusalem covering the Middle East for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and Sunday Times between 2010 and 2013. From 2013 to 2021, she was an editor and correspondent at the Guardian specialising in foreign affairs. Her debut novel, Vulture, is a war satire akin to Catch-22, where an ambitious young journalist […]| debutiful
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy‘s writing has been selected for NPR’s Selected Shorts, and she was a 2014 Stegnar Fellow as well as the winner of the 2019 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Other Wife, follows Zuzu, a biracial woman in her late thirties, as she reflects on the choices that shaped her […]| debutiful
Rose Keating is an Irish writer who studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. She also won the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now Prize, and the Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts […]| debutiful
Xenobe Purvis is a British-based writer who was born in Tokyo. She’s studied at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Purvis was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. Her debut novel The Hounding, is billed as The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides as it follows five sisters in a small village in […]| debutiful
Chloe Michelle Howarth’s debut book, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year and the Nero Book Awards when it was published in 2023. Now, the book is debu…| debutiful
I haven’t published a good think piece for quite some time, but I’ve found myself increasingly irritated by many things to do with the book reviewing space of late. On a recent trip to …| Theresa Smith Writes
Yrsa Daley-Ward is the esteemed poet of The How, bone, and The Terrible and now her debut novel The Catch is one of the best books of the year so far. In it, estranged twin sisters are forced back …| debutiful
Welcome, and happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m so happy you’ve dropped by. Whether you’re a regular participant in the Poetry Friday world, or you ended up here from a search or a link, please know that we’re a welcoming community! Read, comment, think, share, and enjoy! I’m in a […]| Laura Purdie Salas
For those of you who have followed this blog for a long time, you would be familiar with my beautiful little Husky named Zeus, whose adventures and antics were a regular feature in my newsletter po…| Theresa Smith Writes