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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.

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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!

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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.

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January 8, 2021

Out now: Saturation Project by Christine Hume!

Christine Hume’s first book of prose, Saturation Project, is now available for purchase! “The genre-defying genius of Saturation Project brings...

January 4, 2021

Mike Schoch in The Commuter

Check out DISQUIET staffer Mike Schoch’s new short story, “Son,” in this week’s Commuter!

December 8, 2020

Jane Dykema Couldn’t Accept the Ending of...

Read her brand-new essay in Electric Lit – but watch The Undoing first if you don’t want to be spoiled!


November 30, 2020

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...

October 28, 2020

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...

October 22, 2020

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.


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