Padgett Powell, DQ Faculty ’14 and ’16, writes A Tribute to Barthelme in Tin House–an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, available now from UMass Press!

A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors is out! Edited by Disquiet’s Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas, featuring essays by Disquiet Faculty and Guests Arthur Rickydoc Flowers, Stefan Kiesbye, Noy Holland, Mary Gaitskill, Tayari Jones, Scott Laughlin, Adam Levin, Sam Lipsyte, George Saunders, Deb Olin Unferth, Rui Zinc… the list goes on!

Disquiet 2016 Fiction Faculty, Maaza Mengiste, judges this year’s prize! Find out more at Restless Books!

Go to Disquiet 2016 and experience these things while you write!

Congratulations to Polina Barskova (DISQUIET Guest ’15), who just won the Andre Bely Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Russia, a very prestigious literary place!