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Lisbon Travel 2019
Geeky Explorer has some good travel tips for the “San Francisco of Europe” but we’ll have our own in our 2019 Program Guide!
Learn About Disquiet International
International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 23 - July 5, 2019
meet our Faculty
2019 North American Faculty & Guests include Chris Feliciano Arnold, Jensen Beach, Camille Bordas, Jarita Davis, Erica Dawson, Deanne Fitzmaurice, Shane Hinton, Noy Holland, David Leavitt, Cyriaco Lopes, Jenny Offill, Justin Torres, Terri Witek, editors from The Common, Granta, and The Paris Review, and many more!
our post-ProgramResidency
Beginning after the Program in Lisbon ends, our residency in the Azores runs from July 7-16, 2019, in Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel. Write every day in a 7-hectare botanical garden and in the afternoon take trips to geothermal pools, hike volcanoes, or swim at the beach. Tuition includes 9 nights and breakfast at a centrally-located, historic hotel.
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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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2019 Faculty Justin Torres in Granta
2019 Faculty member Justin Torres, author of WE THE ANIMALS, discusses the line between autobiography and fiction in Granta.
2019 Faculty Camille Bordas in the New Yorker
One of our favorite stories from the last couple of years happens to be “Most Die Young” by 2019 Faculty Camille Bordas. Read it here in the New...
2018 Faculty Member Garth Greenwell in NYer
Check out Garth Greenwell’s new story in this week’s New Yorker. It’s part of the collection he read from in Lisbon last summer. And to bring...
Nonfiction winner Mary Birnbaum’s The Wrack Line...
Check out this year’s winning piece in the nonfiction category, The Wrack Line by Mary Birnbaum! Thank you to Ninth Letter for partnering with us for our...
This year’s winning piece, “The Dive”...
Just in time for Disquiet, our grand prize winning piece is up at Granta! Can’t wait to see you all there! And in the meantime, read this beaut!
