14 posts in July 2020
“You Have to Use Your Brains to Survive,” the opening chapter of alum Jay Boss Rubin’s novel in progress, was published by Barzak magazine in their Spring 2020 issue! You can read it here.
Another excerpt is available in the latest issue (004) of the Buckmxn Journal.
Congratulations to Sally Wen Mao, 2019 DISQUIET faculty and Spring 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute!
2019 alum Cleyvis Natera has a new essay up on Cupcakes & Cashmere! You can read “White Supremacy is Not Just an American Problem – It’s a Global Pandemic” here.
You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.
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!
Check out travel writer Thomas Swick’s piece on Pessoa, Lisbon, and visiting Disquiet 2019 at Lithub!
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, 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!
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.
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.