Sally Wen Mao awarded Shearing Fellowship
Congratulations to Sally Wen Mao, 2019 DISQUIET faculty and Spring 2021 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute!
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Cleyvis Natera in Cupcakes & Cashmere
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.
“Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo
You can read “Dispatch from a Pandemic – Brooklyn” by Sofi Stambo at Another Chicago Magazine. Sofi won the DISQUIET Prize in Fiction in 2015.
Vanessa Chan joins the editorial staff at TriQuarterly
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!
Thomas Swick on Disquiet
Check out travel writer Thomas Swick’s piece on Pessoa, Lisbon, and visiting Disquiet 2019 at Lithub!
Carter Sickels in The Atlantic
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.
Ananda Lima wins Newfound Prose Prize
Ananda Lima, a 2020 Lusa-American Fellow, has been awarded the 2020 Newfound Prose Prize! Her chapbook “Tropicália” will be published by Newfound in the spring of 2021. Congratulations, Ananda!
Kritika Pandey awarded Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Big congratulations to 2018 DISQUIET Program Assistant Kritika Pandey, who was awarded the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story “The Great Indian Tee and Snakes.” You can read it in Granta, here.
2019 Shirley Jackson Award Winner Sarah Rose Etter
Congratulations to alum Sarah Rose Etter, whose debut novel The Book of X won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for “works of horror, dark fantasy and psychological suspense that best exemplify the legacy of horror author Shirley Jackson.” You can read an exerpt from The Book of X here.
Serena Simpson in Ninth Letter
We’re thrilled to announce that Serena Simpson’s essay “On Choosing,” winner of the 2020 DISQUIET Prize for Nonfiction, has been published in Ninth Letter. You can read it online here.
From the introductory statement by editor Philip Graham: “[A]s Simpson examines personal decisions both private and public, she homes in on the small print of her experience, insisting on her individual interior self and not allowing it to be subsumed into a larger, perhaps discordant narrative. This is a very brave essay, one where declaration, accusation and confession wind around each other. It is truth-telling that goes deep.”
Don’t miss it!