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Alum Melissa Wiley’s “[h]ungry, ascetic, erotic, and haunted” (Paul Lisicky) essay collection Skull Cathedral: A Vestigal Anatomy is coming your way in September 2020, and avaiable for preorder now from Autumn House Press.
You can read a recent interview with Melissa at Split City Reads.
We’re excited to announce that DISQUIET alum Rebecca Fishow’s story collection, The Trouble With Language, winner of the 2019 Holland Prize for Fiction, is available for preorder now from Trnsfr Books.
You can get a taste of Rebecca’s short fiction at Smokelong Quarterly or Quarterly West.
We were thrilled to learn that Maaza Mengiste’s novel The Shadow King has been longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize! See the whole list here.
“You Have to Use Your Brains to Survive,” the opening chapter of alum Jay Boss Rubin’s novel in progress, was published by Barzak magazine in their Spring 2020 issue! You can read it here.
Another excerpt is available in the latest issue (004) of the Buckmxn Journal.
Congratulations to Sally Wen Mao, 2019 DISQUIET faculty and Spring 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute!
2019 alum Cleyvis Natera has a new essay up on Cupcakes & Cashmere! You can read “White Supremacy is Not Just an American Problem – It’s a Global Pandemic” here.
You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.
We’re thrilled to learn that Vanessa Chan, a 2019 alum who was shortlisted for the Disquiet Prize in fiction, has been announced as a new Fiction Editor at TriQuarterly! Congratulations, Vanessa!
Check out travel writer Thomas Swick’s piece on Pessoa, Lisbon, and visiting Disquiet 2019 at Lithub!
DISQUIET guest Carter Sickels (author of The Prettiest Star) recently published a great piece in The Atlantic: “Being Trans Shouldn’t Exclude Me From Health Laws.” Don’t miss it!
You can find one of Carter’s short stories, “Wildlife,” in the Guernica archives.