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.”
Brendan Bowles , International Programs Director
Brendan Bowles is from Toronto, Ontario. He holds an MA from the University of Toronto and an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work has been published and produced for stage and radio and has been generously supported by grants, fellowships and residencies from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Villa Sarkia, the Banff Center, the Canada Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. He was a 2017-2018 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford for 2019-2021. More info at www.brendanbowles.com
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