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Controlled Conversations by Karol Lagodzki
If you’ve pre-ordered 2024 DISQUIET alum Karol Lagodzki‘s debut novel Controlled Conversations, it’s heading to your mailbox now from Sunbury...
Learn About Disquiet International
International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 22 - July 4 2025
meet our Faculty
Faculty and guests for 2025 will include Gabriel Bump, Camille Bordas, Erica Dawson, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Cyriaco Lopes, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Terri Witek and editors from The Common and Granta, with more TBA!
aboutThe Program
Workshops, costs and deadlines, additional activities and other information about the program.
Ready? Apply Now
Applications for 2025 are open now! Apply by December 2 to secure your place in our Summer 2025 program.
Congratulations to Caitlin Scarano and Sofi Stambo!
LitMag’s fiction awards were dominated by DISQUIET alumni this year: Caitlin Scarano was awarded the Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction and Sofi...
Noelani Piters awarded 2024 PEN Emerging Voices...
2024 DISQUIET alum Noelani Piters was awarded one of ten Emerging Voices Fellowships by PEN America. Congratulations, Noelani!
Pineville Trace by Wes Blake
There’s a great review of alum Wes Blake’s debut novel Pineville Trace over at Smokelong Quarterly – and Pineville Trace is available for...
DISQUIET Grand Prize 2024: How to Gut A Fish by N.C....
The winner of the DISQUIET Grand Prize for 2025, N.C. Happe’s essay “How To Gut A Fish,” is available now at NinthLetter.com, featuring 3-D...
Gift Shops of the American Wild by Becky Mandlebaum
You can read alum Becky Mandlebaum’s terrific essay “Gift Shops of the American Wild” in the June 2024 issue of The Sun.
