“Last June, I disembarked from an early morning Portuguese airplane. Two hours and a trip through customs later, my feet hit the cobblestoned streets of Lisbon, Portugal. Temporal and spatial regularities ceased to exist; the city seemed timeless, the air felt, oddly, both British and Spanish at the same time.
I had arrived.”
See more of Joseph Nichols’ EKU Bluegrass Writers Studio blogpost here.
There’s only two weeks left to enter The DISQUIET Literary Prize for writing in any genre! Now with three–count ’em, three!–ways to get published, with fiction in Guernica, nonfiction in Ninthletter.com, and poetry in The Collagist. And one grand prize winner, to be selected by an outside judge, will receive a full scholarship including tuition, lodging, and airfare to Lisbon in 2014. What more could you ask for? Enter now!
Our friend Derek Nikitas discusses the DISQUIET experience as part of EKU’s low-res MFA program, “The Bluegrass Writers Studio.” You can read his blog post here: http://www.creativewriting.eku.edu/insidelook/summer-highs-our-low-residency-mfa
There’s only one month left to enter the DISQUIET Literary Prize with your best fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. Winners will be published in Guernica, Ninthletter.com, and The Collagist. That’s three ways to get published! On top of that, one grand prize winner will be chosen by an outside judge to receive a full scholarship (including travel, tuition and lodging) to attend this year’s program in Lisbon, Portugal. More details available here.
DISQUIET International Literary Program is proud to announce its first Short Play Contest! Submit your 10-15 minute play (any genre, any style) to win airfare, accommodations, and tuition to the 2014 Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal (June 29-July 11, 2014). The winner will participate in a playwriting workshop with Jacqueline Goldfinger and have a staged reading of their play performed. Finalists and runners up will be offered partial tuition scholarships to the 2014 Program.
Submit plays using our Submittable page by midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on March 1. All writers who submit will be notified of the winner by April 1.