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If you find yourself in or around South Hadley, MA on October 2, why not stop in at Odyssey Bookshop for a conversation with Jeff Parker and DISQUIET alum Wes Blake about Wes’ debut novel, Pineville Trace? You can learn more about the event and RSVP here.
If you’ve pre-ordered 2024 DISQUIET alum Karol Lagodzki‘s debut novel Controlled Conversations, it’s heading to your mailbox now from Sunbury Press. If you haven’t, check it out!
LitMag’s fiction awards were dominated by DISQUIET alumni this year: Caitlin Scarano was awarded the Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction and Sofi Stambo won the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Congratulations, Caitlin and Sofi!
2024 DISQUIET alum Noelani Piters was awarded one of ten Emerging Voices Fellowships by PEN America. Congratulations, Noelani!
There’s a great review of alum Wes Blake’s debut novel Pineville Trace over at Smokelong Quarterly – and Pineville Trace is available for pre-order! (out September 3 from Etchings Press). There will also be an audiobook narrated by fellow Disquiet alum Michael Mau, and plenty of events over the next year, all over the country (so check out the schedule at the link).
The winner of the DISQUIET Grand Prize for 2025, N.C. Happe’s essay “How To Gut A Fish,” is available now at NinthLetter.com, featuring 3-D illustrations and an interview with the author. Congratulations again to N.C. Happe, and thanks to our partners at NinthLetter!
You can read alum Becky Mandlebaum’s terrific essay “Gift Shops of the American Wild” in the June 2024 issue of The Sun.
Two DISQUIET 2024 alumni, Jenny Qi and Jennifer Derilo, were named as finalists for this year’s BOMB Magazine poetry prize. Congratulations!
Ananda Lima’s “strange, intimate, haunting and hungry” fiction debut is already out! You owe it to yourself to pick up a copy when you get the chance.
