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Bruna Dantas Lobato longlisted for 2023 National Book...
We are thrilled to learn that Bruna Dantas Lobato, a 2018 Luso-American Fellow and current Program Assistant, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book...
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2024 Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for our 2024 program! Click here for details.
Lit Prize and Fellowships
Congratulations to the winners of our Luso-American Fellowship Competition: JD Debris, Nina Ferraz, Jeremy Klemin, and Daniel Marco Martins, and huge thanks to all who entered this year!
Reading Suggestions
International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 23 - July 5 2024
meet our Faculty
Our faculty and guests for 2024 will include Jessica Anthony, Chris Feliciano Arnold, Jamel Brinkley, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Novuyo Tshuma, Padgett Powell, Katherine Vaz, Terri Witek, and editors from The Common and Granta, plus many more TBA soon!
aboutThe Program
Workshops, costs and deadlines, additional activities and other information about the program.
Ready? Apply Now
Applications will open September 1 for the 2024 program.
Cristina Fries in Michigan Quarterly Review
“Don’t Leave, Cecilia” by 2023 DISQUIET alum Cristina Fries, is one of the stories in the Summer 2023 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. See...
Brother Alive shortlisted for Ursula K. Le Guin Prize
We’re excited to report that alum Zain Khalid’s debut novel, Brother Alive, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Leguin Prize for fiction!
2023 Grand Prize-winning story “Animals After...
The wait is over! You can now read Avigayl Sharp’s winning story, “Animals After Dark,” at Granta.com!
Out Now: Hemorrhaging Want & Water by Emily Marie...
The debut poety collection by Disquiet alum and 2020 Luso-American Fellow Emily Marie Passos Duffy is out now from Perennial Press! You can order it here.
Out now! Harbinger by Shelley Puhak
DISQUIET 2015 alum Shelly Puhak’s National Poetry Series winning book of poetry, Harbinger, is out today from Harper Collins! You can read her poem...
