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Maaza Mengiste longlisted for the Booker Prize
We were thrilled to learn that Maaza Mengiste’s novel The Shadow King has been longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize! See the whole list here.
Learn About Disquiet International
Notice of Cancellation
In consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have made the decision to cancel Disquiet 2020. We're sorry to miss it, but looking forward to picking up where we left off and celebrating 10 years in 2021.
Lit Prize and Fellowships
Congratulations to our DISQUIET Lit Prize and Luso/Luso-American Fellowship winners for 2020!
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 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!
aboutThe Program
Workshops, costs and deadlines, additional activites and other information about the program.
Congratulations to Our Winners
Congratulations to our DISQUIET Lit Prize, Luso/Luso-American Fellowship, and scholarship award winners for 2020!
Jay Boss Rubin in Barzakh
“You Have to Use Your Brains to Survive,” the opening chapter of alum Jay Boss Rubin’s novel in progress, was published by Barzak magazine in...
Sally Wen Mao awarded Shearing Fellowship
Congratulations to Sally Wen Mao, 2019 DISQUIET faculty and Spring 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute!
Cleyvis Natera in Cupcakes & Cashmere
2019 alum Cleyvis Natera has a new essay up on Cupcakes & Cashmere! You can read “White Supremacy is Not Just an American Problem – It’s...
“Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn”...
You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.
Vanessa Chan joins the editorial staff at TriQuarterly
We’re thrilled to learn that Vanessa Chan, a 2019 alum who was shortlisted for the Disquiet Prize in fiction, has been announced as a new Fiction Editor...
