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See the cover for Ripples into the Wild by Abby Manzella

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See the cover for Ripples into the Wild by Abby Manzella

In her debut short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, Abby Manzella explores man-made disasters, climate change, the pandemic, and imagined future catastrophes. Moving between realism and the speculative, the collection features everything from children telling ghost stories to characters confronting actual monsters while considering what might exist beyond loss and grief.

Manzella is a Pushcart Prize winner whose writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection is set to be published by Cornerstone Press on February 23, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Ripples into the Wild’s cover, designed by Paige Biever and Ross Tangedal, along with a Q&A with Manzella about its creation.

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See the cover for Overwintered by Elina Katrin

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See the cover for Overwintered by Elina Katrin

Overwintered, Elina Katrin‘s debut poetry collection, explores the body as a site of memory, displacement, illness, and renewal. Moving between Syria, Russia, and the United States, Katrin traces the complicated experience of inhabiting the immigrant body, the female body, and the ailing body while searching for connection and belonging. Through recurring images of flowers, dreams, and changing seasons, the collection considers what we inherit, what we carry alone, and what it means to emerge from winter transformed.

Overwintered will be published on February 1, 2027, by Trio House Press and is available for preorder now.

Elina Katrin is a poet and writer whose work explores migration, memory, womanhood, and the body. Her debut poetry collection, Overwintered, is forthcoming from Trio House Press.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Overwintered, designed by Coral Sue and featuring Lovis Corinth’s Women with Lilies in a Green House, along with a Q&A with Katrin about its creation.

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See the cover for Sensual World by Lauren Friedlander

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See the cover for Sensual World by Lauren Friedlander

Lauren Friedlander’s debut novel, Sensual World, is a surreal Midwestern campus gothic about ambition, obsession, and the terrifying lengths we’ll go in the name of art. Seventeen-year-old Bet Cowl escapes her remote Kansas hometown after discovering the manuscript of a supposedly cursed play and earning admission to the infamous acting conservatory founded by its playwright, Una Flood. There, Bet falls into an intense friendship with former child star Helen as the two endure increasingly extreme demands on their bodies, minds, and relationship. Queer, strange, and darkly funny, Sensual World asks what happens when artistic devotion begins to look a lot like self-destruction.

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 is honored to reveal the cover of Sensual World, designed by Victoria Maxfield and art-directed by Nicole Caputo. Below, Friedlander discusses the visual moodboard that accompanied her through eight years of writing, the artistic references that shaped the novel’s strange world, and the uncanny experience of finally seeing her book with a face of its own.

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See the cover for Villains by Samantha Neugebauer

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See the cover for Villains by Samantha Neugebauer

Villains, the debut short story collection by Samantha Neugebauer, follows characters searching for purpose, enchantment, and connection across the United States and around the world. Spanning thirteen stories, the collection explores the tensions of self-mythology, social hypocrisy, and shame—often through mother-daughter relationships—as its characters struggle to distinguish what is lasting from what is fleeting, and what is truly meaningful from what has simply become familiar.

Villains will be published on January 26, 2027, by Washington Writers’ Publishing House and is available for preorder now.

Samantha Neugebauer is a lecturer at NYU Washington, DC, and a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins, an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from NYU. Originally from Philadelphia, she spent nearly a decade working abroad and now lives in Washington, DC.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Villains, designed by Dave Ring, along with a Q&A with Neugebauer about its creation.

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See the cover for Blue Selvage by Preeti Parikh

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See the cover for Blue Selvage by Preeti Parikh

Blue Selvage, the debut poetry collection by Preeti Parikh, weaves lyric, essayistic, and documentary modes into an exploration of skin, cloth, color, and the body as living archives marked by gendered, racialized, and colonial histories. Moving across shifting homelands, languages, and forms, the collection examines memory, inheritance, and reclamation, asking how the body carries what culture attempts to erase and how language can become a means of re-stitching fractured identities.

Blue Selvage will be published on November 1, 2026, by Tupelo Press and is available for preorder now.

Preeti Parikh is an Indian-born poet and essayist whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and Nonwhite and Woman. A Kundiman Fellow, National Poetry Series finalist, and recipient of awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, she holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. She lives in Ohio with her family, and Blue Selvage is her debut poetry collection.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Blue Selvage, designed by Ann Aspell with art from Joanne Dugan, along with a Q&A with Parikh about its creation.

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See the cover for The Younger and Other Stories by Daniel J. O’Malley

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See the cover for The Younger and Other Stories by Daniel J. O’Malley

The Younger and Other Stories, the debut short story collection by Daniel J. O’Malley, gathers haunting stories that trace the moments when ordinary life begins to drift into the uncanny, when circumstances shift, reality dissolves, and the familiar world reveals itself to be far stranger than it first appeared. By turns tender and unsettling, the collection explores the unstable spaces between connection, consequence, and uncertainty in prose that is elemental, precise, and quietly unnerving.

The Younger and Other Stories will be published on April 13, 2027, by Hub City Press.

Daniel J. O’Malley’s fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Granta, Subtropics, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He grew up in Missouri and currently lives in West Virginia, where he teaches at Marshall University.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The Younger and Other Stories, which features art by Nancy Friedland, along with a Q&A with O’Malley 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 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 All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) by T Clark

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See the cover for All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) by T Clark

T Clark is a writer whose short fiction have appeared in  Joyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, and Fourteen Hills. They received their MFA from Indiana University and support from Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York; the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; the Lambda Literary Foundation; the Elizabeth George Foundation; the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing; and the Vermont Studio Center.

Their debut story collection All This Want (and I Can’t Get None)  explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town. It will be published by One World on June 23, 2026 and is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, which was designed by Michael Morris, along with a Q&A with Clark about its creation below.

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See the cover for Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think by Grace Spulak

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See the cover for Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think by Grace Spulak

Grace Spulak is a writer and attorney based in her home state of New Mexico with an MFA from Warren Wilson, who will be releasing her debut story collection, Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think, from Autumn House on April 21, 2025. Magdalena is set largely in New Mexico and explores the complexities of gender, queerness, trauma, and resilience.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think‘s cover, designed by Connie Amoroso, with art from Joel Becktell, along with a Q&A with Spulak about its creation.

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