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Debutiful

Debutiful

Discover new voices with Debutiful. Each episode features a conversation with a writer discussing why they write, how they write, and the path to publishing their debut book.

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329 episodes

  1. The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Nafissa Thompson-Spires - What Is the Sophomore Slump? 24:33
  2. The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Huneycutt - Write Your Messy Zero Draft 32:29
  3. The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw - Defining Your Own Success 46:47
  4. Observer by Nicholas Russell - Letting Ignorance Be Bliss 51:13
  5. The Responsible Party by Claire Carusillo - Writing a Fictional Character Named Claire Carusillo 35:41
  6. Appetite by P Paramita - Write Your Obsessions 36:40
  7. The Make-Believe by Hannah Murray - On Magic and Madness 30:59
  8. A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood - Writing Your Body and Soul 34:45
  9. The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders - Writing a "BIG" Book 50:30
  10. Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow - Finding the Right Way to Tell Your Story 40:18
  11. Voyagers by Meg Charlton - The Best Alien Novel of the Year 39:36
  12. Girl's Girl by Sonia Feldman - Creating an Online Marketing POV 38:56
  13. Waiting On A Friend by Natalie Adler - A Dyke-About-Town 43:40
  14. No God But Use by Bobuq Sayed - Finding the Viewpoints 34:45
  15. Debuti-Vault: Torrey Peters Discusses Detransition, Baby (2021) 46:39
  16. Middlemen by Laura B. McGrath - Are Literary Agents Parasites? 39:17
  17. One Leg on Earth by 'Pemi Aguda - Enjoying the Hard Parts of Creativity 28:27
  18. The Memory Museum by M Lin - "So, Do You Have a Novel?" 43:28
  19. Squirming by Monika Ostrowska - Writers Should Be Readers 39:15
  20. Harmless by Miranda Shulman - How To Write Four First Drafts And Still Love Your Novel 41:09
  21. Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran: Queer Academia and Gothic Horror 29:12
  22. The Fountain by Casey Scieszka: The Ever-Evolving Journey to Writing a Book 44:08
  23. Debuti-Vault: Brandon Taylor Discusses Real Life (2020) 50:31
  24. Bloodfire, Baby by Eirinie Carson - Seeking People to People Vibes 31:54
  25. She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva - Surprising Yourself With Every Draft 39:27
  26. Salvation by C. William Langsfeld - Dispatches from the Western Slope 26:30
  27. Escape! by Stephen Fishbach - Behind-the-Scenes of the Great American Reality TV Novel 50:52
  28. Take It From Me by Alia Hanna Habib: Let's Talk About Nonfiction Careers 44:43
  29. Scavengers by Kathleen Boland: How the American West Inspires Her Writing 43:22
  30. Buckeye by Patrick Ryan: What Makes A Story Worth It 32:34
  31. Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu - The Lineage of Writers 42:53
  32. Wanting by Claire Jia - Life After Publishing Your Debut 31:49
  33. First Taste: Ally Ang reads from Let the Moon Wobble 9:35
  34. Ravishing by Eshani Surya - Body On the Page 33:17
  35. First Taste: Cloud Delfina Cordona Reads From The Past is a Jean Jacket 6:29
  36. That's Not How It Happened by Craig Thomas - Writing From the Heart 40:52
  37. Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer - Writing for the Screen and Why This Story Needed To Be A Novel 33:26
  38. First Taste: Max Delsohn Reads From Crawl 12:51
  39. This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz - Fiction, Nonfiction, and "Slutty Reading" 40:01
  40. Sister Creatures by Laura Venita Green - Writing When the Timing is Right 39:43
  41. First Taste: Teresa Dzieglewicz reads from Something Small of How to See a River 12:57
  42. Thank You, John by Michelle Gurule - What's a Sugar Baby? 31:24
  43. First Taste: Isabella DeSendi Reads From Someone Else's Hunger 11:53
  44. First Taste: Brian Gyamfi Reads From What God in the Kingdom of Bastards 6:51
  45. Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond - Writer with a Capital W 50:42
  46. The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham - Modern Gothic Academia 40:28
  47. The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace - From (Not On) the Screen to the Page 37:19
  48. First Taste: Antonio Michael Downing Reads From Black Cherokee 10:40
  49. First Taste: Ed Park Reads From An Oral History of Atlantis 12:54
  50. Dominion by Addie E. Citchens - The Great Mississippi Novel 35:11