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Café ORFEU: Nov 30
If you’re in the New York City area, check out this project of recent Disquiet alumni: Cafe Orfeu will take place on November 30th, 6 PM at the Consulate...
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2024 Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for our 2024 program! Click here for details.
Lit Prize and Fellowships
Congratulations to the winners of our Luso-American Fellowship Competition: JD Debris, Nina Ferraz, Jeremy Klemin, and Daniel Marco Martins, and huge thanks to all who entered this year!
Reading Suggestions
International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 23 - July 5 2024
meet our Faculty
Our faculty and guests for 2024 will include Jessica Anthony, Chris Feliciano Arnold, Jamel Brinkley, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Novuyo Tshuma, Padgett Powell, Katherine Vaz, Terri Witek, and editors from The Common and Granta, plus many more TBA soon!
aboutThe Program
Workshops, costs and deadlines, additional activities and other information about the program.
Ready? Apply Now
Applications will open September 1 for the 2024 program.
Congratulations to Bruna Dantas Lobato and Justin...
Congratulations to 2019 DISQUIET faculty Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts, and to Bruna Dantas Lobato, DISQUIET PA and...
Gabriel Bump’s The New Naturals
Have you been waiting for the new novel by DISQUIET faculty (and alum!) Gabriel Bump? You’re not alone, and you’re in luck: The New Naturals is out...
Online event: Everything But Plot with T Kira Madden
DISQUIET is thrilled to present Everything But Plot: Building Suspense on the Line Level, an online craft talk with T Kira Madden, coming up on Saturday,...
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
DISQUIET alum Sarah Rose Etter has a new novel out! Read an interview in The Chicago Review of Books, hear it talked about on NPR, or order it today!
Bruna Dantas Lobato longlisted for 2023 National Book...
We are thrilled to learn that Bruna Dantas Lobato, a 2018 Luso-American Fellow and current Program Assistant, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book...