Reading Suggestions
Out now! The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood
Congratulations to Disquiet alum Stacy D. Flood, whose novella The Salt Fields is available now from Lanternfish Press! Aimee Bender called it...
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Lit Prize and Fellowships
The 2022 Disquiet Prize is now open for submissions!
2021 In-Person Program Cancelled
Due to ongoing pandemic conditions, we regret that we are unable to plan for an in-person summer program in 2021. We'll continue to post updates about other events, and look forward to returning to Lisbon as soon as circumstances allow.
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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 26 - July 8 2022
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.
Join our online events
We're working on a series of online events with DISQUIET faculty. See here for the latest.
Stephanie Dinsae and more in The Common
The Common issue #22 is here, and with it Stephanie Dinsae’s 2021 DISQUIET Prize-winning poem, “Dey.” Read it here! In Issue #22 you’ll...
Chanan Tigay on Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Here’s a fascinating piece in Smithsonian Magazine about a Portuguese counsul general who defied Salazar’s orders to write visas for thousands of...
Mother/land Available for Pre-Order
<i>Mother/land</i>, a new book of poems by 2020 Luso-American Fellowship recipient Ananda Lima, is coming out in October! You can order it now from...
Joy Williams in LitHub
Anything a writer says about their work is outside the work, a stranger to it. It’s a different language. It’s almost the enemy of the work....
Congratulations to Simon Shieh!
We’re thrilled to learn that DISQUIET alum Simon Shieh is one of five recipients of this year’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry...
