I wrote the first draft of my debut hardcover, The Seventh Ribbon, during 2020’s quarantine, when we all wished we had a ...

Instruction Manual for Future Lover, Madeline Garfinkle‘s debut novel, is a sharp, funny exploration of modern dating, ...

Horror is having a moment. Maybe it always has been, but now it’s creeping into the literary mainstream. Genres have bled into one another, and writers are doing incredibly exciting things. Horror isn ...

Brenda LaTorre’s debut novel, Bruja’s Nest, follows Yolanda, a teenager growing up in a household of abuse and disorder. When her mother sends her to work as a servant at the Fernández De la Rosa ...

Wardzala’s Another Name for Red has some of the most harrowing fiction I’ve ever read. The hyper-sexualization of Native ...

Charlotte, the debut novel by Elizabeth Ferris, is a historical reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s life during the turbulent ...

Below are 24 short stories from some of Debutiful founder Adam Vitcavage’s favorite debut short story collections, all published since the website’s launch in 2019. Each book cover is linked to an ...

Do you ever have a particular vibe you just love in art and media, and then realize that there’s a common throughline for why you love these particular songs, stories, artworks? What began with a gif ...

Since 2019, Debutiful has covered the best and most exciting debut books and their authors. Now, we want to help readers discover the best and most exciting short stories from established and emerging ...

The Best Podcasts About Books, The Mary Sue, May 3, 2023 – “If you want to know what’s happening in the debut side of publishing, look no further than Debutiful.” The Best Book Podcasts for Literary ...

I read more debut books this year than ever before. My general process is to read a handful of pages for every book that comes my way. From there, I decide to finish about a dozen per month to curate ...