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.
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!
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.
Sindya Bhanoo’s short story “Malliga Homes,” winner of the Grand Prize in this year’s Disquiet contest, is now available on Granta.com! You can read it here.
Disquiet 2020 will be Disquiet’s 10th Anniversary!! To celebrate, we’ve got one of the most exciting faculty lineups imaginable:
GUEST AUTHOR: Tayari Jones
FICTION: Joy Williams, Maaza Mengiste, Molly Antopol, Gabriel Bump
POETRY: Ben Lerner, Shayla Lawson
NONFICTION: T Kira Madden, Chanan Tigay
LUSO/A-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Katherine Vaz
EDITORS from Granta and Jennifer Acker from The Common
CRAFT SESSIONS led by Jensen Beach, Deanne Fitzmaurice, Arthur Flowers, Annie Liontas, Cyriaco Lopez, and Terri Witek
PORTUGUESE GUESTS: Teolinda Gersão, Susana Moreira Marques, José Luís Peixoto, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Jacinto Lucas Pires and Richard Zenith
We can’t wait to celebrate with you!!!