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New Releases
- The Independent Shops Putting Debut Authors in the Front Window
- What Debut Authors Can Learn From the Books That Almost Went Unpublished
- Twelve October Debuts Worth Clearing Space For
- The Best Debut Covers of the Season, and the Designers Behind Them
- How Self-Published Debuts Are Finding Their Way Onto Bookstore Shelves
- The Small Presses Betting Their Lists on First-Time Authors
- How to Pick a Debut Novel You Will Actually Finish
Fiction
- A Hospice Nurse Wrote Her First Novel on Night Shifts Over Eleven Years. Now Readers Can't Stop Passing It Around
- The Query Letter That Landed Imani Clarke an Agent in Nine Days
- Rosa Delacroix-Vance Drew the Map Before She Wrote a Single Chapter
- Why Quiet Science Fiction Is Having a Moment, Starting With Orbit of the Lesser Moons
- From Accounting Ledgers to Literary Fiction. Why Samuel Okafor Kept His Day Job
- Iron & Honey Builds a Kingdom Where the Bees Decide, and Mostly Makes It Sing
- The Undertow Club Is a Locked-Room Mystery With Ice Water in Its Veins
- In Low Tide Protocol the Villain Is the Water, and It Is Terrifying
- Nine Lamps Over Kettle Street Lights Up 1924 Harlem One Secret at a Time
- The Salt Orchard Is a Slow, Unsparing Novel About What a Family Can Save
Memoir & Essays
- How One Book Club Turned a Self-Published Memoir Into a Regional Bestseller
- Poet Tomasz Wren Kept 212 Drafts of a Single Sonnet. We Read Every One
- Delia Montrose on Writing About Her Father Without Writing Him Off
- Hannah Birch Walked 900 Miles of Field Margins to Write Fieldwork
- Grief, Birdsong and the Sonnet. Tomasz Wren's Debut Is a Winter Worth Staying In
- Five Poetry Debuts Worth Reading Slowly
- How Memoirists Fact Check the People They Love
- Why Debut Essay Collections Are Finding Readers Again
- Fieldwork Finds a Whole Country in the Margins
- What the River Kept Reads a Father Through His Weather Reports
Interviews
- Priya Venkataraman Built Her Debut Thriller Around a Real Coastal Flood Model
- Listen. Beatrice Lang on the Locked-Room Mystery She Set at a Winter Swim Club
- Jonah Adebayo-Reyes Spent Four Years in the Archives to Bring Harlem's Last Lamplighters Back to Life
- A Retired Machinist Published His First Novel at 67. He Says He Was Right on Time
- How a Greenhouse Love Story Found Its Readers One Bookstore at a Time
- Kai Nakamura-Holt on Readbacks, Loneliness and Writing a Novel With No One to Blame
- Rosa Delacroix-Vance on Hive Politics, an 812-Page Draft and What Bees Know About Plot
- Hannah Birch on Blisters, Borrowed Beds and Learning to Lay a Hedge
- Samuel Okafor on Lagos, His Father's Exercise Books and the Man Who Wrote His Novel With Him
- Delia Montrose on Two Voices, One River and the Night She Almost Turned Back
First Chapters
The Shortlist
- Six First Books, Six Roads to Publication. Inside the 2026 RedSquibble Shortlist
- Waders, a Billhook and a Lawn Mower. Where the Six Finalists Were When the Phone Rang
- Six Books That Almost Made the Shortlist
- What 1,140 Debut Submissions Taught Us About First Books
- Sixty Books, Three Judges, One Long Argument. The Debut Prize Panel Talks
- The 2026 Debut Longlist. Twelve First Books Still in the Running
Books
- A Grammar of Small Birds by Tomasz Wren
- Fieldwork by Hannah Birch
- Glasshouse Summer by Imani Clarke
- Iron & Honey by Rosa Delacroix-Vance
- Ledger of Quiet Things by Samuel Okafor
- Low Tide Protocol by Priya Venkataraman
- Nine Lamps Over Kettle Street by Jonah Adebayo-Reyes
- Orbit of the Lesser Moons by Kai Nakamura-Holt
- The Last Good Summer on Arden Lane by Colin Mercer
- The Salt Orchard by Mara Ellison
- The Undertow Club by Beatrice Lang
- What the River Kept by Delia Montrose
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