In his debut novel, Great Disasters, Grady Chambers traces the lives of six men coming of age in early-2000s Chicago, as friendship, first love, protest, and war shape the bonds that push and pull them. Chambers captures the humor, heartbreak, and hope that can be found even in moments of loss and devastation. He is […]| debutiful
Whenever I’m struggling to write stories or even sentences, when the creative process or the world outside my window or both are in such a state of crisis that it feels impossible to articulate what stories are for or why anyone bothers with them, I turn to my folklore and mythology shelf. I’m a member […]| debutiful
In her debut memoir-in-essays, Sing Me a Circle, Samina Najmi traces her life across Pakistan, England, and the United States, reflecting on the people, places, and stories that shape her vision of the world. Through essays on memory, displacement, and the enduring ties of family, Najmi forges an identity as a professor, mother, and writer. […]| debutiful
In her debut novel, Underspin, writer E.Y. Zhao brings readers into the table tennis world. In it, we follow a young prodigy who, from the ages of eight to twenty-five, was taking the sport by storm. Until he abandoned the sport and ended up dead. Zhao carefully crafts a coming-of-age that questions the pressures of […]| debutiful
Davin Malasarn is a biologist-turned-debut-writer. Based in Los Angeles, his work has appeared in Los Angeles Review, Rosebud, Opium Magazine, and SmokeLong Quarterly. The Outer Country, which will be published by One World on May 5, 2026, traces the fractured bond between two Thai sisters after one is sent to America and the other is left behind, their rivalry […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. Michelle Gurule, author of Thank You, John, joined the podcast to discuss being a sugar baby, when she first felt like a writer, and why her memoir is really about family. You can purchase a copy […]| debutiful
Jennifer Acker‘s debut book, The Limits of the World, was a fiction honoree for the Massachusetts Book Award, and her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, and The Yale Review, among other places. Now she’s back with another novel, publishing on April 14, 2026. Surrender follows […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. On every First Taste Reading Series episode, a writer introduces their book and reads a selection from it. Isabella DeSendi, author of Someone Else’s Hunger, reads a selection of poems from her debut poetry collection. […]| debutiful
Erin Van Der Meer is a former journalist-turned-fiction writer whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Elle. She was a Spruceton Inn Artist Resident in 2024. Her debut novel, The Scoop, is a piercing satire about a journalist working the night shift at a tabloid and the explosive consequences of her […]| debutiful
In her debut novel, Happiness & Love, Zoe Dubno follows a young woman who, after returning to New York for her former best friend’s funeral, is drawn into a downtown dinner party that spirals i…| debutiful
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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…| 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,…| 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 …| 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…| 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 includi…| debutiful
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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…| 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 insp…| debutiful
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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
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
