Maaza Mengiste longlisted for the Booker Prize
We were thrilled to learn that Maaza Mengiste’s novel The Shadow King has been longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize! See the whole list here.
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Jay Boss Rubin in Barzakh
“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.
Sally Wen Mao awarded Shearing Fellowship
Congratulations to Sally Wen Mao, 2019 DISQUIET faculty and Spring 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute!
Cleyvis Natera in Cupcakes & Cashmere
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.
“Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo
You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.