Reading Suggestions
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...
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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.
Lit Prize and Fellowships
The Disquiet Prize is now closed! Results to be announced in March.
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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 Dates TBD
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.
Mike Schoch in The Commuter
Check out DISQUIET staffer Mike Schoch’s new short story, “Son,” in this week’s Commuter!
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!
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...
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...
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.
