August 2025 – debutiful
10 posts published by Adam during August 2025| debutiful
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
The following is an excerpt from Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers. She is a writer and musician originally from Atlanta. Her fiction has appeared in The Baffler, The Massachusetts Review, Guernica, and elsewhere Hothouse Bloom is about a woman named Anna who retreats to an orchard seeking solitude and communion with nature, but her old friend Jan disrupts her withdrawal, […]| 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
Rachel Taff has cut her teeth in the television world where she was recently the Director of Development at Dynamic Television, which produced Ginny and Georgia. She’s worked on shows including Snowfall, The Plot Against America, SMILF, American Dad, and Fresh Off the Boat. Now, she’s turning her attention to the page with a debut […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. Yiming Ma, author of These Memories Do Not Belong To Us, joined the podcast to discuss transitioning from the business and tech world to writing fiction, learning about how his memories work, and his love for […]| 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
C. Mallon is the author of Dogs, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Below Mallon offers the books, films, and music that inspired Dogs. Dogs opens hard and fast with a junk car, a high school wrestler and a “great big autistic kid” […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. Megan Cummins, author of Atomic Hearts, joined the podcast to discuss debuting a novel after a successful story collection, writing a teen voice for adult readers, and her position at Public Books. You can purchase a […]| debutiful
Larissa Pham follows up her essay collection Pop Song, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, with her debut novel, Discipline. The book will be released by R…| debutiful
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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
Every now and then, I like to ask writers, “Is there a question you’d like me to ask?” I’m always surprised by the types of questions they’d want to ask themselves, so I decided to take the idea of…| debutiful
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
After releasing her debut novel After World in 2023, Debbie Urbanski is back with her debut short story collection Portalmania. The collection explores any and every genre from sci-fi and fantasy t…| debutiful
