“From the moment Kit Marlowe’s ghost stepped into my room, I knew I wanted to speak with him about queer existence,” writes @HessePhillips, author of LIGHTBORNE, in this original piece for CrimeReads. 🕯️🪶 crimereads.com/christopher-ma…

Spotted in the London Review Bookshop! Looks like there’s only a couple of copies left, so Londoners, swing by the next time you’re at this iconic bookshop!

🔷Calling the debut authors of 2025 🔷 We are officially open for submissions for our 2025 issue. Send your best work to [email protected] No submission fees. We always pay our authors.

“Motherhood connects the three parts of the book: how I was mothered, how I have mothered, how nature mothers me now that I am beyond the years of fertility.” - @benedicta_be

Fantastic reading from Gustav Parker Hibbett’s wonderful debut collection with Banshee Press!

An incredible night! The energy at the Southbank Centre was unmatched. Best of luck to the wonderful poets for tomorrow. #tseliotprize

Debut authors make up more than half of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist. The 2025 longlist also includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout 👇 thebookseller.com/news/kaliane-b…

Les finalistes des Goncourt de printemps 2025 #premierroman #nouvelle #biographie 📚📚📚

🔷 We are still accepting submissions for our second issue! 🔷 If you are a debut author, or a publisher of a debut author, contact us at [email protected] We pay our authors.

"Blue Press welcomes pieces from authors debuting their work in the coming year. Self-publishing writers included. Show us your poetry, prose, essays, reviews, short stories and art." bluepress.uk/#submit #WritingCommunity

A while back, we asked 25 debut authors for their top piece of advice for getting published. Here's what the final 5 had to say... 🧵

We are so delighted to announce that the second issue of Blue Press will be released in 2 weeks, on the 31st of July We could not be more excited to publish work from the following debut authors:

We’re so excited for the publication of Marcia Hutchinson’s debut The Mercy Step out with Cassava Republic When you inevitably fall in love with Mercy Hanson, check out Marcia’s short story in this year’s Blue Press for a slice of life with this extraordinary character

It’s time for the annual flip-through! This time, featuring the London skyline. We have work from the 23 best debut authors of the year in this issue, so don’t forget to mark your calendars for July 31st.

Just announced! The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025. An intoxicating tale of art, love and secrets set across a sun-drenched Provençal summer in 1920; find our gorgeous new edition with ribbon marker here: waterstones.com/book/the-artis… #WDFP

🔷The 2025 Issue is live!🔷 From big publishers to small presses, from novels to poetry collections, discover the greatest debuts of the year in 126 pages of an illustrated magazine. Keep print alive! Shop the issue online now, and in select bookshops. bluepress.uk/issue-2025/p/i…

A very dialed-in aesthetic and well-curated selection of debut writers. Honored to be a part of this, and can’t wait for my copy to arrive here in LA. ✨

We’re delighted to be featuring two of Giovanni’s poems in our print issue. If you love Woolf and/or Proust, you’ll want to check these out… Link in bio!