Celebrate The New Nonfiction 2025 debut authors featured in our September/October 2025 issue with a virtual reading and conversation with features editor India Lena González. This event will take place on Thursday, September 25, at 7PM EDT.
Register now for this free event!
In the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, we introduce five debut authors: Sarah Aziza, author of The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders (Catapult, April); Erika J. Simpson, author of This Is Your Mother (Scribner, May); Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night (Knopf, October); Amanda Hess, author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age (Doubleday, May); and Samina Najmi, author of Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time (Trio House Press, October). Read essays by the debut authors as well as excerpts from their books.
This virtual event will include readings from the authors and a conversation about their books and their writing practices. RSVP now!