4+ day, 15+ 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…...

4+ day, 17+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ 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…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (319+ words) Friedlander is a writer and graphic designer from Kansas who now lives in New York. She is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Sensual World will be published by Catapult on March 23, 2027. Debutiful…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (430+ words) Threaded through the friendship story is an unflinching look at race, class, and privilege, and the quiet, corrosive weight of what is owed between people who love each other unevenly. In the interview that follows, Mutonji speaks about naming the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) We asked Bazzett to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers can get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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, 1+ week ago   (1596+ words) Kitten by Stacey Yu, one of Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debut Books, follows protagonist Katie, who is fresh out of university and desperate not to enter the adult world quite yet. When she goes to the Hamptons with her boyfriend James,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (596+ words) Leila Renee is a writer whose fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction and a Fulbright Award, and an MFA graduate of Syracuse University, she now makes her…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (373+ words) What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will take readers through their writing, editing, and sequencing of their debut short story collection. In our latest Inside the Collection…...