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April 24, 2020

New Short Fiction Roundup: David Beaty, Anna Catalano, Vanessa Chan

There’s a lot of great new fiction out there by DISQUIET alumni. Here are a few that we know about – check them out if you can!

David Beaty holds the record for the most Disquiet programs attended in a row – all of them! You may remember “Toad” from 2019’s fiction workshop with Camille Bordas – and even if you don’t, you can read it now in Green Mountains Review.

2018 alum Anna Catalano‘s story “Lazarus” can be found in the Spring 2020 issue of Planet Scumm – an energetic and extremely readable triannual magazine of short science fiction with a hilarious editorial voice. Check them out at planetscumm.space!

Vanessa Chan was shortlisted for the Disquiet Prize in 2019. Her story “Coronation” can be found in Porter House Review, a great-looking online journal from Texas State University.

Enjoy!

April 24, 2020

Beebe Bahrami on Lisbon (and DISQUIET)

by Laura Breitenbeck in News

Travel writer Beebe Bahrami has published a piece about Lisbon in Perceptive Travel – you can read it here.

April 17, 2020

All-Star Essay Collection including Jen Hirt

by Laura Breitenbeck in News

Disquiet alum Jen Hirt joins Jericho Brown, Camille T. Dungy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Elena Passarello, and many, many more in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, a project of the online journal Terrain.org.

All royalties from sale of the book will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Union of Concerned Scientists.

April 15, 2020

“Withdrawal” by Alysia Sawchyn in Gulf Coast

by Laura Breitenbeck in News

Alysia Sawchyn’s debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, is coming your way from Burrow Press on June 9, 2020 – but you can read one of the essays, “Withdrawal,” right now in Gulf Coast!

April 14, 2020

Out Now! Bubblegum by Adam Levin and Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht by Catherine Moore

by Laura Breitenbeck in News

Two new releases by Disquiet faculty and alumni are available today!

Adam Levin‘s new novel Bubblegum is out today, with an excerpt in Guernica for your reading pleasure.

Catherine Moore‘s chapbook-length collection of poems about bog bodies, Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht, is available now from Unsolicited Press – or read an excerpt in The Piltdown Review.