Meet 6 writers from The Common’s Festival of Debut Authors

Meet 6 writers from The Common’s Festival of Debut Authors

On Wednesday, March 27th, The Common will host a virtual celebration that highlights emerging talents during their 2024 Festival of Debut Authors. You can learn more about the festival and register for the event here.

Debutiful caught up with five of the writers appearing at the virtual event so readers could get to know them a little better. Enjoy this round table with the emerging poets, prose writers, and translators who are ready to make their mark on the literary world.

Participating in the roundtable is:

  • Felice Belle (author of the debut poetry collection Viscera)
  • Amika Elfendi (writer, artist, and translator)
  • Jordan Escobar (author of the chapbook Men With the Throats of Birds)
  • Irina Hrinoschi (writer, filmmaker, poet and translator working in English, German and Romanian)
  • Nina Perrotta (translator of Clara Alves’s London on My Mind)
  • Shanna Tan (translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum)

You can learn more about each author by clicking their names, which will take you to their websites.

Register for the March 27th virtual event, which starts at 7pm ET, here!

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