A production of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and storielibere.fm, in collaboration with cultural association Monteverdelegge In 2005, Luigi Bernardi, who was an acclaimed mystery writer and, at the same time, a keen talent scout, advised aspiring young writers to go to a bookshop and try to imagine their book squeezed between thousands of others. Leafing through the letters of Alfabeto Italiano, the page opens at the letter E: E as in “Esordienti”, or Debut Writers in English, the word on which we have alighted on this stage of the journey through Italian publishing. A word that inspires the dreams of all those who have a book locked away in a drawer or, more probably, in a computer's memory. But it is a word that publishers also like, tempted by the idea of discovering among the incoming manuscripts the title that will win over thousands or maybe millions of readers. With Alessandro Gazoia and Mario Marchetti