Great news: we’re pushing our deadline for the Short Play Contest back by one week!
So get up from your keyboard and stretch a little. Go outside. Get a coffee. Call your mother. AND THEN GET BACK TO WORK. We’re loving what you’re sending us, so keep it up!
Contest now closes: March 7, 2015.
Elaine Avila writes about winning the first annual Disquiet Short Play Contest, her time in Lisbon, and “the exhilaration of being part of a group that is telling its stories for the first time.”
“Girls” by Laura Adamczyk, the winner of the 2014 DISQUIET Literary Prize, earned a mention in GQ’s What We’re Reading: “A beautifully written and disquieting fiction with strange, emotional accuracy.” That’s just what we said! If you haven’t read it yet, now is as good a time as any.
Go to DISQUIET 2015 (details forthcoming), and then retire in the Algarve!
In Portugal, everyone goes naked, on and off the beaches. By this I mean that what I found at Disquiet were people, not writers, not speakers, not editors, not panels. Over two very potent weeks, I got a chance to see my colleagues up close for who they really were and not for their titles. I heard their work, broke Pao de Deus with them, and realized that there is something alarmingly honest about Disquiet’s mission: when the time and place are right, we writers become true to ourselves, both on and off the page. I realized wasn’t just among writers at Disquiet, I was among colleagues in a shared experience of discovery.
DISQUIETer Annie Liontas writes about her experiences in Portugal this summer for South85. Lots more over here.