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You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.
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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 at TriQuarterly! Congratulations, Vanessa!
Thomas Swick on Disquiet
Check out travel writer Thomas Swick’s piece on Pessoa, Lisbon, and visiting Disquiet 2019 at Lithub!
Carter Sickels in The Atlantic
DISQUIET guest Carter Sickels (author of The Prettiest Star) recently published a great piece in The Atlantic: “Being Trans Shouldn’t Exclude Me From Health Laws.” Don’t miss it!
You can find one of Carter’s short stories, “Wildlife,” in the Guernica archives.
Ananda Lima wins Newfound Prose Prize
Ananda Lima, a 2020 Lusa-American Fellow, has been awarded the 2020 Newfound Prose Prize! Her chapbook “Tropicália” will be published by Newfound in the spring of 2021. Congratulations, Ananda!
Kritika Pandey awarded Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Big congratulations to 2018 DISQUIET Program Assistant Kritika Pandey, who was awarded the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story “The Great Indian Tee and Snakes.” You can read it in Granta, here.
2019 Shirley Jackson Award Winner Sarah Rose Etter
Congratulations to alum Sarah Rose Etter, whose debut novel The Book of X won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for “works of horror, dark fantasy and psychological suspense that best exemplify the legacy of horror author Shirley Jackson.” You can read an exerpt from The Book of X here.
Serena Simpson in Ninth Letter
We’re thrilled to announce that Serena Simpson’s essay “On Choosing,” winner of the 2020 DISQUIET Prize for Nonfiction, has been published in Ninth Letter. You can read it online here.
From the introductory statement by editor Philip Graham: “[A]s Simpson examines personal decisions both private and public, she homes in on the small print of her experience, insisting on her individual interior self and not allowing it to be subsumed into a larger, perhaps discordant narrative. This is a very brave essay, one where declaration, accusation and confession wind around each other. It is truth-telling that goes deep.”
Don’t miss it!
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones “holds the reader from first page to last, with her compassionate observation, her clear-eyed insight and her beautifully written and complex characters” (Amy Bloom). The author of four novels and a professor at Emory and Cornell, Jones’ most recent novel, the bestselling An American Marriage, received the prestigious 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. It was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list.
A novelist of the highest order, she is also a great literary advocate for the work of others, see most recently her introductions to classic reissues of Ann Petry’s The Street and Delores Phillips’ The Darkest Child. Her NYT review of Stacey Abrams’ new memoir, which we recently posted, and this article, on voting conditions in Georgia evidence her savvy in political analysis as well.
You can read her interview with the Paris Review or this recent profile in Vogue, or this excerpt from An American Marriage.
Jones taught at DISQUIET in 2013 and was scheduled to return as our guest writer in 2020. We hope she’ll be able to join us for our postponed tenth-edition program in 2021.
Buy An American Marriage here or anywhere books are sold.
Shayla Lawson
Shayla Lawson “writes like you’re having a conversation with your smartest, wisest, funniest friend and you don’t want it to end.” (R. Eric Thomas). Her new book of essays, This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope, comes out today from Harper Perennial, available here and everywhere.
The author of three books of poetry, most recently I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean, and a professor at Amherst College, Lawson’s other projects include curating The Tenderness Project with Ross Gay and performing with her band The Oceanographers.
Hear her poem “Pantone 427 U“, read “Forrest Gump“, or hear her read from This Is Major at a Zoom reading for THE ANTIBODY.
Shayla Lawson was scheduled to lead a poetry workshop at Disquiet 2020, and we hope she’ll return for 2021.
