“Wayward” by Amanda Borquaye now available in NinthLetter!
We’re so happy to announce that Amanda Borquaye’s winning nonfiction piece “Wayward” is up on Ninth Letter for you to read! You can find it here.
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Katherine Vaz on Primeira Pessoa
Our own Katherine Vaz is the first American to be interviewed by Fátima Campos Ferreira for the Portuguese primetime interview program Primeira Pessoa (First Person). You can watch it (in Portuguese) here: https://www.rtp.pt/play/p14571/e893735/primeira-pessoa
“Good Tank Farms” by Millicent Borges Accardi in Paris Review
Congratulations to alum Millicent Borges Accardi, whose poem “Good Tank Farms” appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Paris Review!
Check out her interview with Portuguese-American writer Stephen Rebello about his new book, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Strangers on a Train, in The Portuguese-American Journal.
New Swahili Fiction translated by Jay Boss Rubin
The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories, the first full-length book of fiction by award-winning contemporary Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo, is availiable now, translated from the Swahili by DISQUIET alum Jay Boss Rubin and published by Itasca Books.
“Cuentos de Hoy” by Silvia Spring in Iowa Review
2023 alum Silvia Spring has a story out in the Fall 2025 issue of the Iowa Review! You can find “Cuentos de Hoy” and the rest of the issue here.
Only Son by Kevin Moffett
DISQUIET faculty Kevin Moffett’s novel Only Son was longlisted for the National Book Award, and is available now from McSweeney’s!
Dead Things and Where to Put Them by Marina Carreira
2024 Luso-American Fellow Marina Carreira’s new book, Dead Things and Where to Put Them, is out now from Cavankerry Press! Grab a copy here.
Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão
We’re excited to learn that 2023 alum Jennifer Galvão’s debut novel, Maria, Maria, is now forthcoming from Random House!
New poem by Carson Wolfe in Poetry!
You can read “Silicon Valley, in the Backseat of a Tesla” here.
Carson’s book, Coin Laundry at Midnight, is forthcoming from Button Poetry in 2026 and available for preorder.
Vigil by Susie Taylor
Congratulations to 2023 alum Susie Taylor, whose collection Vigil was awarded the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for fiction and the 2025 Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction!