Thomas Swick on Disquiet
Check out travel writer Thomas Swick’s piece on Pessoa, Lisbon, and visiting Disquiet 2019 at Lithub!
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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.