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See the cover for Miracle Cures by Carey Dunne

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See the cover for Miracle Cures by Carey Dunne

Carey Dunne’s debut novel, Miracle Cures, is a darkly funny exploration of wellness culture, pseudoscience, and the things we choose to believe. When fact-checker Nelly begins working for a celebrity wellness magazine, she spends her days investigating dubious health claims until a health scare sends her searching for a miracle cure of her own.

Dunne is a writer and former fact-checker whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Baffler, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. Miracle Cures will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 9, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Miracle Cures, designed by Sarah Flood-Baumann. Below, Dunne discusses medieval medicine, Hieronymus Bosch’s The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, and how centuries-old quackery became the perfect inspiration for a novel about our modern search for miracle cures.

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See the cover for Lessons in Attention by Jimin Kang

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Jimin Kang’s debut novel, Lessons in Attention, is an intimate, atmospheric story about disappearance, identity, faith, and belonging. Following Brazilian translator Lua as she searches for her missing friend Toby, the novel moves across continents as Lua confronts what it means to leave homes and loved ones behind while searching for a place to belong.

Kang is a writer whose work explores questions of home, migration, and identity. Lessons in Attention will be published by Tin House on June 22, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Lessons in Attention, designed by Maura Intemann. Below, Kang and Intemann discuss the novel’s recurring water imagery, the geographies that shape Lua’s journey, and how collage became a way to capture a character whose sense of self stretches across places, cultures, and lives.

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See the cover for Bodies of Water by Rebecca Winterich-Knox

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See the cover for Bodies of Water by Rebecca Winterich-Knox

Rebecca Winterich-Knox’s debut novel, Bodies of Water, is a gothic domestic drama about grief, betrayal, and the secrets that surface when two families reunite at an ancestral seaside estate. Set over one week on the Massachusetts coast, the novel follows seven characters reckoning with loss, shifting relationships, and the histories that bind them together.

Winterich-Knox holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn. Bodies of Water will be released by Zando on June 15, 2027. It is available for preorder now.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Bodies of Water, designed by Ash Tsai. Below, Winterich-Knox discusses drawing inspiration from the New England coastline, creating a sense of suspense through landscape, and how two nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings were transformed into the novel’s stormy seaside cover.

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Magic, Faith, and the Maternal Body in Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s Book of Hours

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Magic, Faith, and the Maternal Body in Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s Book of Hours

Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s Book of Hours is a visceral novel about birth, motherhood, faith, and the uneasy relationship between women and the institutions meant to care for them. Following an unnamed protagonist through pregnancy, labor, and its aftermath, the novel draws on Catholic saints, medieval mythology, and magical thinking to explore what happens when bodily autonomy, belief, and identity begin to fracture.

I spoke with Whittet about writing from personal trauma, the strange transformation of becoming a mother, and finding magic and faith in experiences that can be both beautiful and brutal.

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See the cover of We Are Not These Bodies by Kirtan Nautiyal

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See the cover of We Are Not These Bodies by Kirtan Nautiyal

Kirtan Nautiyal’s We Are Not These Bodies is a memoir in essays about fathers, sons, faith, and Indian American belonging. Structured around the Hindu ritual of aarti, Nautiyal traces his effort to reclaim his cultural inheritance while exploring family history, infertility, his work as an oncologist, and the loss of his father.

Nautiyal is an Indian American writer and practicing hematologist and oncologist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Guernica, Electric Literature, and Longreads, among others. We Are Not These Bodies will be published by the University of North Carolina Press on February 23, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of We Are Not These Bodies, designed by Lindsay Starr. Below, Nautiyal discusses avoiding stereotypical imagery, the significance of a lamp offered to flowing water, and how the final design reflects the book’s themes of tradition, return, and transience.

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See the cover for The House in Talbiya by Omer Friedlander

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See the cover for The House in Talbiya by Omer Friedlander

Omer Friedlander’s The House in Talbiya is a multigenerational novel following two families, one Israeli and one Palestinian, connected by a house in Jerusalem. Spanning a century, the novel moves from Prague and Jerusalem to Ramallah, Berlin, and New York, exploring diaspora, exile, loss, and the longing for home.

Friedlander is the author of The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. He was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Tel Aviv, and now lives in New York City. The House in Talbiya will be published by Random House on March 9, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The House in Talbiya, designed by Rachel Ake. Below, Friedlander discusses the paintings that inspired the cover, the significance of its house and bird imagery, and how the final design captures the novel’s fragmented layers of memory, displacement, and home.

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See the cover for Gold in the Furnace

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See the cover for Gold in the Furnace

Kathleen McNamara’s Gold in the Furnace is a debut story collection exploring life at the edges of reality in the modern American West. Across landscapes shaped by fire, flood, and snow, McNamara’s characters confront addiction, paranoia, grief, climate disaster, and the strange places where the natural and supernatural collide.

McNamara’s fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review, Witness, and elsewhere. Gold in the Furnace, winner of the EastOver Press Prize for Debut Story Collection, will be published February 23, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Gold in the Furnace, designed by Beste M. Doğan. Below, McNamara discusses her desire for a dreamlike cover, the influence of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons in One Head, and how classic art came to capture the collection’s dark, surreal, and occasionally playful vision of the American West.

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See the cover for Side Streams by Yasmin Adele Majeed

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See the cover for Side Streams by Yasmin Adele Majeed

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s debut novel, Side Streams, is a polyphonic story about family secrets, queer identity, art, and the silences passed between generations. Growing up between her mother’s Filipino American roots and her father’s tight-knit Pakistani American community in the Bay Area, Aliya Amjad becomes fascinated by the mysteries her mother refuses to explain, including an art installation dedicated to an unknown woman. Decades later, Aliya reconnects with her childhood friend Samir, and together they begin untangling the secrets their parents kept and questioning whether silence protected their families or simply kept them apart.

Majeed is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2025, Narrative, Guernica, and Joyland, among others.

Side Streams will be published by Little, Brown on March 30, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Side Streams, designed by Grace Han with art direction by Keith Hayes. Below, Majeed discusses wanting a cover grounded in the California Bay Area, the Diego Rivera mural that helped inspire the novel, and how the final design captures the beauty, friction, and wonder of trying to turn an artistic vision into something tangible.

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See the cover for The Ninth Island by Andrew Chi Keong Yim

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See the cover for The Ninth Island by Andrew Chi Keong Yim

Andrew Chi Keong Yim’s The Ninth Island is a poetry collection about displacement, inheritance, and the search for home, following his family from Hawaiʻi to Las Vegas while reaching across generations to his Chinese American great-grandmother.

Yim is a poet and teacher whose work explores family, place, and the forces that shape Hawaiʻi and its diaspora. The Ninth Island will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on February 9, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The Ninth Island, designed by Alex Wolfe with photography by Patrick Nevada. Below, Yim discusses images of Hawaiʻi, Las Vegas’s culture of facsimile, and how an empty pair of car seats came to capture the book’s themes of absence, longing, and displacement.

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Announcing the 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort

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Announcing the 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort

Poets & Writers has announced the Fall 2026 fiction cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early-career writers. The program gives selected writers the chance to work with an experienced book publicist who will guide them in leveraging the opportunity of their first or second major book publication.

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