Noy Holland on her mentor Gordon Lish in an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, edited by Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas. Read it on Lit Hub here!

After reading more than 1,000 entries, DISQUIET & Summer Literary Seminars are proud to announce this year’s winners of our joint contest in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. See the results here!

Great news: we’re pushing our deadline for the Short Play Contest back by one week!

So get up from your keyboard and stretch a little. Go outside. Get a coffee. Call your mother. AND THEN GET BACK TO WORK. We’re loving what you’re sending us, so keep it up!

Contest now closes: March 7, 2015.

In Portugal, everyone goes naked, on and off the beaches. By this I mean that what I found at Disquiet were people, not writers, not speakers, not editors, not panels. Over two very potent weeks, I got a chance to see my colleagues up close for who they really were and not for their titles. I heard their work, broke Pao de Deus with them, and realized that there is something alarmingly honest about Disquiet’s mission: when the time and place are right, we writers become true to ourselves, both on and off the page. I realized wasn’t just among writers at Disquiet, I was among colleagues in a shared experience of discovery.

DISQUIETer Annie Liontas writes about her experiences in Portugal this summer for South85. Lots more over here.

There’s only two days left to enter both the luso scholarships and the literary prize! For some motivation/inspiration/general wisdom, check out Oona Patrick’s Town Crier piece about Disquiet’s Luso scholarships, the North American Luso writing community, Presence/Presença, Fidalgo Books, and the upcoming AWP conference.

Oona also has an essay on “Portuguese contributions to, and representation in, North American literature” in the upcoming Spring, 2014, issue of The Puritan. Can’t wait!

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!