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10th Anniversary and Faculty Lineup to Die For
Disquiet 2020 will be Disquiet’s 10th Anniversary!! To celebrate, we’ve got one of the most exciting faculty lineups imaginable: GUEST AUTHOR:...
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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 21 - July 3, 2020
meet our Faculty
2020 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 activites and other information about the program.
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Creative writing workshops, craft talks, editing seminars, publishing panels and literary walks—all in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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2020 Faculty Joy Williams in Paris Review
We’re so thrilled to have legend Joy Williams join the faculty this year! Here’s one of our favorite interviews with her in The Paris Review.
2020 Faculty Gabriel Bump in Publisher’s Weekly
Gabriel Bump is a Disquiet Alum, former Disquiet Staff, and now returns as Disquiet Faculty! His debut novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, is going to...
Maaza Mengiste in the New York Times
Disquiet 2020 Faculty Maaza Mengiste’s new novel THE SHADOW KING received a review in the NYT which ends: “…for once, all this grandeur, all...
Camille Bordas in The New Yorker
2019 Faculty Camille Bordas’s new story, “The Presentation on Egypt” in The New Yorker is killer!
Christopher Cerf in Forbes
Disquiet’s own Christopher Cerf is the Cultural Icon continuing Dr. Seuss’s Legacy
