Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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In this BookTrib interview, Maggie Su speaks about how her debut novel, Blob: A Love Story (Harper, 2025), began as a short story and then a play, and her interests in surreal and speculative stories.
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In this Green Apple Books event, Karissa Chen reads from her debut novel, Homeseeking (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025), and speaks about how her late grandfather’s experiences during the Chinese Civil War inspired the book in a conversation with Vanessa Hua.
Tags: Fiction | Karissa Chen | Homeseeking | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Vanessa Hua | Green Apple Books | reading | conversation | debut novel | 2025 -
In this Buzz Books virtual event, Cebo Campbell discusses how the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Toni Morrison inspired his debut novel, Sky Full of Elephants (Simon & Schuster, 2024), in a conversation with Simon & Schuster senior editor Olivia Taylor Smith.
Tags: Fiction | Cebo Campbell | Sky Full of Elephants | Olivia Taylor Smith | Simon & Schuster | Buzz Books | debut novel | 2024 -
“The book is, in many ways, about expectations and change.” In this Fane Productions event, Juli Min reads from her debut novel, Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau, 2024), and discusses her choice to begin the novel in the future in Shanghai and how the diverse and multifaceted city is its own character in a conversation with author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.
Tags: Fiction | Juli Min | Fane Productions | Shanghailanders | Spiegel & Grau | 2024 | debut novel | interview | reading | Shanghai | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan -
In this Books Are Magic event, Kat Tang reads from her debut novel, Five-Star Stranger (Scribner, 2024), and describes her experience revisiting a novel manuscript years after finishing her MFA in a conversation with author Jinwoo Chong.
Tags: Fiction | Kat Tang | Five-Star Stranger | Scribner | Jinwoo Chong | Books Are Magic | reading | debut novel | 2024 -
In this interview, Ferdia Lennon talks about his Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize–winning novel, Glorious Exploits (Henry Holt, 2024), which opens in Sicily in 412 BCE with two characters hatching a plan to direct a production of Euripides’s Medea.
Tags: Fiction | Ferdia Lennon | Glorious Exploits | Henry Holt | Waterstones | debut novel | interview | 2024 -
In this virtual event hosted by Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Maryland, Jiaming Tang reads from his debut novel, Cinema Love (Dutton, 2024), and discusses writing about forbidden queer love and the immigrant experiences that were crucial to his work. Tang is featured in “First Fiction 2024” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
