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See the cover for To Stay, To Stay, To Stay by Devon Halliday

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See the cover for To Stay, To Stay, To Stay by Devon Halliday

To Stay, To Stay, To Stay, the debut novel by Devon Halliday, is set over the course of a single humid week and traces seven interconnected lives of an ensemble cast in a small Appalachian college town as private crises surface and begin to collide. As secrets spread and choices sharpen, it becomes a study of staying versus leaving, and how even our most certain decisions can feel provisional under pressure.

To Stay, To Stay, To Stay will be published on October 27, 2026, by McSweeney’s and is available for preorder now.

Halliday is a Pushcart Prize–winning writer with fiction published in Ploughshares, One Story, and West Branch, among other journals. Her essays and criticism appear in Liberties, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and CRAFT.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of To Stay, To Stay, To Stay, designed by Justin Carder with an illustration by Owen Pomery, along with a Q&A with Halliday about its creation.

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See the cover for Mistranslation by Madeleine Moss

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See the cover for Mistranslation by Madeleine Moss

Mistranslation, the debut novel by Madeleine Moss, follows twin sisters in upstate New York as childhood fractures into diverging identities shaped by family absence, cultural inheritance, and the arrival of a boy who unsettles both. Spanning years and continents, it traces how early misunderstandings calcify into lifelong tensions, asking what we inherit, what we misread, and what it costs to finally understand.

Mistranslation will be published on September 22, 2026, by University of Iowa Press and is available for preorder now.

Moss grew up in Ithaca, New York, and received a degree in French literature from Cornell University before obtaining her MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Mistranslation, designed by Kimberly Glyder, along with a Q&A with Moss about its creation.

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See the cover for The Meaning of Daughter by Alexia Nader

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See the cover for The Meaning of Daughter by Alexia Nader

The Meaning of Daughter, the debut novel by Alexia Nader, follows three generations of women navigating ambition, motherhood, and constraint, as each attempts to define herself through art, love, and autonomy within the expectations placed on her. As their choices reverberate across decades and geographies, the novel examines how desire, resentment, and inherited dreams fracture and reshape a family.

The Meaning of Daughter will be published on September 15, 2026, by University of Iowa Press and is available for preorder now.

Nader is originally from Miami and currently lives in San Francisco.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The Meaning of Daughter, designed by Kathleen Lynch, along with a Q&A with Nader about its creation.

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See the cover for Honor by A.B. Dozier

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See the cover for Honor by A.B. Dozier

Honor, the debut novel by A.B. Dozier, is set in 1920s Baltimore and follows Bella, a fiercely independent young woman navigating immigrant life while resisting the control of the Black Hand, an organized crime network that exploits and traffics vulnerable women. After her murder draws massive public attention, the investigation into her death exposes a vast web of interconnected crimes and reveals how the choices of a community, both complicit and resistant, allowed such violence to take hold.

Honor will be published on March 9, 2027, by Blair Publishing and is available for preorder now.

Dozier is a longtime human rights advocate who, while researching her family history in spring 2020, discovered a century-old Baltimore newspaper article about an unidentified body and followed it into the story that became Honor. She holds a BA in International Relations from Randolph Macon Woman’s College and an MA in Conflict Resolution from Lancaster University, and lives in Washington, DC with her husband, three sons, and a Maine Coon.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Compensation‘s cover, designed by Laura Williams, along with a Q&A with Dozier about its creation.

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See the cover for Women in Marigold by Mansi Dahal

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See the cover for Women in Marigold by Mansi Dahal

Mansi Dahal‘s debut poetry collection, Women in Marigold, moves from Kathmandu to New York City, from Saeeda Bai to Sylvia Plath, confronting the tension between life as a daughter in Nepal and a future as an artist in America.

Women in Marigold will be published on September 22, 2026, by Stillhouse Press and is available for preorder now.

Mansi Dahal is a writer from Biratnagar, Nepal, and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, where she was awarded the Waletzky Fellowship from the School of the Arts for her distinguished work. Women in Marigold is her debut poetry collection.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Women in Marigold, featuring a photograph by Tirtha Lawati, along with a Q&A with Dahal about its creation.

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See the cover of Compensation by Augustine Cerf

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See the cover of Compensation by Augustine Cerf

Augustine Cerf‘s debut novel Compensation opens in the immediate aftermath of loss and refuses to look away. When Charlotte’s adult son dies suddenly, grief does not hollow her out; it sharpens her, driving her toward a decision that feels both clinical and unthinkable: to extend his life by any means available, even if it requires bending the boundaries of motherhood, autonomy, and consent.

Compensation will be published on January 19, 2027, by Tin House and is available for preorder now.

Cerf is a London-based writer with an award-winning career in advertising. Compensation is her first novel.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Compensation‘s cover, designed by Lucy Kim, along with a Q&A with Cerf and insight from Kim about its creation.

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Announcing the 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellows

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Announcing the 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellows

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

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See the cover for Those Who Vanish by Patricia Grace King

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See the cover for Those Who Vanish by Patricia Grace King

Patricia Grace King, winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, grew up in western North Carolina and has since lived in Spain, Guatemala, and the UK, where she now resides. Her short fiction has won the Miami University Novella Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Florida Review‘s Leiby Prize, and the Kore Press Fiction Award.

Her Drue Heinz-winning book, Those Who Vanish, features stories that follow martyrs, missionaries, guerrillas, and gringos across Central America to the Midwestern United States. This year’s judge says of the collection, “King’s unrelenting exploration of our need to survive while retaining our humanity propels these narratives into surprising and heart-breaking terrain.”

Those Who Vanish is set to be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 1, 2026, and is available for preorder now.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of the story collection, designed by Alex Wolfe, alongside a Q&A with King about its creation.

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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

Nikki Ervice is the winner of the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize for fiction, whose work has also appeared in The VQR, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and Passages North. Her debut novel, Roadshow, is set to be released on November 10, 2026, by Astra House.

Roadshow follows Annie, a burned-out New York performer who leaves behind her life of bartending and burlesque to drive cross-country to Alaska after receiving a letter from her mother, who abandoned her at birth. As her journey grows increasingly desperate and dangerous, Annie confronts questions of identity, inheritance, and survival while being pulled toward a final reckoning with her past. Blending grit and intimacy, the novel explores the cost of passion and the fragile ties between family, class, and selfhood.

Roadshow is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is excited to reveal the cover, designed by Eli Mock, along with a Q&A with Ervice about how it was created.

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See the cover for Afterlight by Caleb Nolen

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See the cover for Afterlight by Caleb Nolen

Caleb Nolen is a poet whose work has appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Afterlight, is set to debut on June 5, 2026, by University of Utah Press.

The collection, which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, which was designed by Jessica Booth with art from Mike Ousley, alongside a Q&A with Nolen about how it was created.

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