Reading Suggestions
A.O. Scott on Joy Williams
Florida comes up a lot in Williams’s work (she has written a nonfiction book about Key West). It’s a landscape of vacation homes and cut-rate amusements...
Learn About Disquiet International
Lit Prize and Fellowships
The Disquiet Prize is now open for submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction! See updated contest details here.
Notice of Cancellation
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we regret that we have had to cancel our Summer 2020 program. We hope to be able to provide an update on the 2021 program by February 2021.
About
Lisbon
Disquiet is, to my way of thinking, the very best program of its type in the world.
- George Saunders, 2012 Guest Writer
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International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 20 - July 2, 2021
meet our Faculty
2021 North American Faculty & Guests to include Gabriel Bump, Tayari Jones, Shayla Lawson, Annie Liontas, Ben Lerner, T Kira Madden, Maaza Mengiste, Cyriaco Lopes, Katherine Vaz, Joy Williams, Terri Witek, and editors from The Common, Granta, and others, with more TBA!
aboutThe Program
Workshops, costs and deadlines, additional activities and other information about the program.
Enter our Writing Contest
The DISQUIET Lit Prize is now open! Enter by January 15, click here for details.
Issue 20 of The Common is here!
We’re so excited to see Issue 20 of The Common, featuring a portfolio of writing from the Lusosphere and the winner of the 2020 Disquiet Literary Prize...
Rui Zink in Ninth Letter
The American premier of Portuguese guest writer Rui Zink’s novel The Installation of Fear is available to read at Ninth Letter, here.
Out now: Lyrics for Rock Stars by Heather Sappenfield
Heather Sappenfield’s short story collection Lyrics for Rock Stars, winner of the V Press LC Compilation Book Prize, is out today –...
“I can’t just be hopeful for the sake of...
I can’t just be hopeful for the sake of it. I find that I have to figure out actions that feel like they create a less precarious life for the future. So for...
Out now: Wiving by Caitlin Myer
Wiving is a wonder, a hypnotic account of the dangers of desire–specifically female desire–when it dares to run counter to all the barriers that...
