Writing fiction itself might be (and often is) considered an act of translation: from experience to language, from emotion to logic, from chaos to legibility. Perhaps it is a mere coincidence, or a stroke of good luck, then that these three fall debut novelists selected for our craft series each... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-12-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
Here are this year's finalists for the best debut YA novel and best YA nonfiction of the year, as selected by librarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-09 13:23:56 UTC ]
A partnership between Hello Sunshine, Reese's Book Club, and We Need Diverse Books is behind a spate of debut novels by underrepresented writers, including Chatham Greenfield's 'Time and Time Again.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novels by Essie Chambers and Marcela Fuentes are among this month's selections by the nation's biggest book clubs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
This diverse slate of standout debut novels by women spans genre, from historical saga to contemporary comic novel to postapocalyptic fantasy, as well as the globe, from California to a far-flung Nordic isle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
This spring has come with its fair share of excellent debut novels. Here are three more, for your reading pleasure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Three Black women novelists make their debut with tales of inheritance, friendship, and alternate futures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novels by Diane Marie Brown, Lakiesha Carr, and Claire Jiménez are among the nation's biggest book clubs' March picks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novels by Jessica George, Monica Heisey, and Leanor Shearer get the book club treatment from Jenna Hager, 'Marie Claire,' and 'Good Morning America.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and poet Derek Owusu is to chair the judging panel for the National Centre for Writing's (NCW) £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-20 01:09:43 UTC ]
'My Little Golden Book About Betty White,' #3 in the country, honors the last of the Golden Girls, who died December 31. Plus the month's book club picks include a pair of debut novels, and Alice Oseman's fourth Heartstopper graphic novel sends pulses racing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Starting in February 2022, Anchor will publish hardcover titles for the first time, including three debut novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
The Arthur C. Clarke Award, which recognizes the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year, has released their 2021 shortlist—and for the first time in the award’s 35-year history, the shortlist is entirely made up of debut novels. “As we announce... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-06-30 16:03:59 UTC ]
Find a new author to follow or the first book your fave wrote with this list of debut novels by queer authors for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-18 11:31:50 UTC ]
It’s here: the final day of the National Book Foundations’ longlist announcements. Yep, it’s time for the fiction list, as chosen by judges Dorothy Allison, Ruth Dickey, Javier Ramirez, Danzy Senna (Chair), and Jeff VanderMeer from a pool of 397 submitted books. It includes two debut short story... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-20 14:32:33 UTC ]
The list features two debut novels, including one from the youngest author ever to make the list, in addition to a novel in verse from an award-winning poet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three female authors will compete for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. All three authors shortlisted for this year’s £10,000 award, which is for debut novels, are published by Penguin Random House. Emma Healey is shortlisted for Elizabeth is Missing (Viking), Carys Bray for A Song for Issy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three debut novelists are in the running for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic novels. Writer Caitlin Moran, actress Helen Lederer and Nina Stibbe have all made the shortlist for the prize, alongside Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh and Joseph O'Neill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 20-strong longlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction features five debut novels, alongside an author nominated for her 20th book. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]