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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch

By Matt Seidel and Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

This season’s buzzy adult and YA fiction debuts, including stories of a sex worker assassin, a New York cab driver accused of murder, and a Latina teen poet, are all about controlling the narrative.
Children's Spring 2026 Writers to Watch

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

We spotlight the authors of five of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts. Their offerings include a tale inspired by Ghanaian legend, a dystopian middle grade novel, a YA novel starring a Latina poet, and more.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Yosha Gunasekera

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The author’s love for 'My Cousin Vinny’ and her work for the Innocence Project inspired ’The Midnight Taxi’ (Berkley, Feb.), a mystery about a cabbie wrongly accused of murder.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Petra Lord

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

A lifelong fantasy reader, the author began what would become her highly anticipated debut YA novel 'Queen of Faces' (Holt, Feb.) as a side project while studying TV writing.
Writers to Watch: Spring 2026: Bsrat Mezghebe

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

“The Eritrean story is the greatest story never told,” says the author of ‘I Hope You Find What You Are Looking For’ (Liveright, Feb.), about the country’s 30-year-war for independence and its diaspora.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Woody Brown

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The nonspeaking author's debut novel, 'Upward Bound' (Hogarth, Mar.), is set in a cash-strapped adult daycare center for autistic and disabled adults.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Kirsten King

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The antiheroine of 'A Good Person' (Putnam, Mar.) goes to extreme, some might say stalkerish, lengths to turn the man she’s been hooking up with into her fiancé.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: René Peña-Govea

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

In the author's debut novel, 'Estela, Undrowning' (Quill Tree, Mar.), a Latina student at an elite public high school finds herself at the center of a citywide debate about merit-based admissions.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Cassie Miller

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The author’s debut YA rom-com, 'Meet Me Under the Lights' (Viking, Mar.), is a love letter to small towns and two of the things their residents hold dear: baseball and community theater.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Anna Monders

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

After reading an article in the 'MIT Technology Review,' the author, an alumna of the school’s planetary science master’s program, found the spark for her dystopian middle grade novel, ‘Tested' (Aladdin, Mar.).
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Ama Ofosua Lieb

By Joanne O’Sullivan | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

Growing up in Ghana, the author of 'Goldenborn' (Scholastic, June) loved listening to stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of legend.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Bobuq Sayed

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

In the author’s debut novel, 'No God But Us' (Harper, May), two gay men from the Afghani diaspora cross paths in Istanbul in 2015.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Emeline Atwood

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

At the beginning of the author’s debut novel, 'A Real Animal' (Catapult, July), the protagonist wakes up in her college dorm room to find herself transformed into a leopard.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Lisa Lee

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

In the author’s debut novel, 'American Han' (Algonquin, Mar.), two Korean American siblings buckle under impossible standards.
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Rebecca Novack

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

A sex worker assassinates a presidential candidate and tries to set the record straight on her favorite podcast in the author’s incendiary debut, ‘Murder Bimbo’ (Avid Reader, Feb.).
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Anna Kovatcheva

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The Bulgarian-born author portrays a charlatan vampire slayer in her folkloric novel, 'She Made Herself a Monster' (Mariner, Feb.).
Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Portia Elan

By Matt Seidel | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

‘Homebound' (Scribner, May), the author’s intricate debut novel, addresses contemporary concerns while indulging in nostalgia for the early days of computer gaming.
A Singular Utterance: PW Talks with Peter Conners

by Sam Spratford | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

The publisher of Boa Editions, which turns 50 this year, is making the case for protecting small presses amid widespread cuts to arts funding.
How ‘Leaving Home’ by Mark Haddon Got Made

by PW staff | 01/02/2026 @ 07:00PM

An inside look at the publication process for the bestselling author’s illustrated memoir.
Authors File New Lawsuit Against AI Companies Seeking More Money

By Ed Nawotka | 12/23/2025 @ 11:00AM

Six authors who opted out of the the proposed Anthropic settlement have filed individual lawsuits against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity AI, seeking $150,000 for each title from each defendant per the Copyright Act.

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