We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication

This debut collection is big on creativity but, overall, short on satisfaction

It is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attention

In ‘Vertigo’, the writer highlights familiar worlds as they are about to fracture

Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival

‘I began to write – not to make sense of things, the opposite in fact. I wrote in order to keep rationality and purpose at bay, to prolong and bask in the rhythmic chaos of existence, and luxuriate in the magnificent mystery of everything’

Seven Irish authors longlisted for 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Ruth Frances Long wins Best Creator of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bennett’s form-twisting debut collection, Pond, is daring, intense and exhilarating

The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art