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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 Press. If you haven’t, check it out!
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 Stambo won the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Congratulations, Caitlin and Sofi!
Noelani Piters awarded 2024 PEN Emerging Voices fellowship
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 pre-order! (out September 3 from Etchings Press). There will also be an audiobook narrated by fellow Disquiet alum Michael Mau, and plenty of events over the next year, all over the country (so check out the schedule at the link).
DISQUIET Grand Prize 2024: How to Gut A Fish by N.C. Happe
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 illustrations and an interview with the author. Congratulations again to N.C. Happe, and thanks to our partners at NinthLetter!
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.
BOMB Poetry Prize Finalists Jennifer Derilo and Jenny Qi
Two DISQUIET 2024 alumni, Jenny Qi and Jennifer Derilo, were named as finalists for this year’s BOMB Magazine poetry prize. Congratulations!
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
Ananda Lima’s “strange, intimate, haunting and hungry” fiction debut is already out! You owe it to yourself to pick up a copy when you get the chance.
New Fiction by Camille Bordas
2019 DISQUIET faculty Camille Bordas is officially everywhere, with stories out in Harper’s (“New Material,” May 2024) and The New Yorker (“Chicago on the Seine,” June 2024). Get acquainted if you haven’t already!

