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!
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Ellie Black and Aiden Heung in The Common
Congratulations again to DISQUIET Prize poetry finalists Ellie Black and Aiden Heung, whose poems you can read here alongside Pedro Poitevin in The Common’s June 2025 poetry feature!
“Caribbean Gothic” by Tylea Richard out now!
Congratulations again to the winner of the 2025 DISQUIET Prize in Nonfiction, Tylea Richard! Tylea’s winning essay, “Caribbean Gothic,” is out now at NinthLetter.com – read it here!
New translation by Jay Boss Rubin
2015 alum Jay Boss Rubin’s translation of the Swahili novel Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi is out today! Rosa Mistika was first published in Tanzania in 1971 and is now available in English for the first time. You can order it here (or through Yale University Press London outside the US and Canada) or read an interview with Jay Boss Rubin in the Chicago Review of Books.
“Exterminations” by Susan Li in Georgia Review
2024 alum Susan Li’s essay “Exterminations,” runner-up for the Georgia Review Prose Prize, is out now in the Winter 2024 issue of The Georgia Review. You can read it here.
New essay by Steven Tagle!
Read DISQUIET staff member Steven Tagle’s essay “To the First-Time Porn Star” in Off Assignment here.
Veronica Vo in The Offing
DISQUIET alum Veronica Vo has a new piece in The Offing! You can read “Dictionary” here.
“Men Smoking” by Emily Mathis
DISQUIET alum Emily Mathis is the winner of the Sonora Review Erotic Contest for her essay “Men Smoking”! Congratulations, Emily! Read “Men Smoking” here.
Debut story collection from Kathryn Kruse
2017 alum Kathryn Kruse‘s debut story collection, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone, is available for preorder now, forthcoming February 2025 from Jackleg Press.
You can preorder it here!
New fiction from Camille Bordas
Two new stories from fiction faculty member Camille Bordas: “New Material” in Harper’s and “Chicago on the Seine” in The New Yorker. Enjoy!