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Shayla Lawson “writes like you’re having a conversation with your smartest, wisest, funniest friend and you don’t want it to end.” (R. Eric Thomas). Her new book of essays, This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope, comes out today from Harper Perennial, available here and everywhere.

The author of three books of poetry, most recently I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean, and a professor at Amherst College, Lawson’s other projects include curating The Tenderness Project with Ross Gay and performing with her band The Oceanographers.

Hear her poem “Pantone 427 U“, read “Forrest Gump“, or hear her read from This Is Major at a Zoom reading for THE ANTIBODY.

Shayla Lawson was scheduled to lead a poetry workshop at Disquiet 2020, and we hope she’ll return for 2021.

 

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A note from the DISQUIET staff

Dear Friends,

As many of you know 2020 was to be the tenth edition of Disquiet. Because of COVID that celebration has been delayed until 2021, and now that the days that would have been Disquieted (June 21 – July 3) are upon us, the saudades have hit hard.

We will have much to say about ten years of DIsquiet at next year’s program, but right now in the US we are in the midst of a long-overdue cultural reckoning with the systems of racism and bias that underpin so much of American society. So we have decided to recognize the Disquiet that would have been by featuring each day the work of one Black writer who was slated to present at Disquiet 2020.

Please read and support them and their work, and consider coming to DISQUIET next year where, scheduling and health codes permitting, you’ll be able to work with them.

Sincerely,

The DISQUIET staff

Good News Roundup: New Writing and Awards

A few news items from our alumni you may have missed:

Scott Edward Anderson was awarded the First Literary Prize from the publisher Letras Lavadas, in conjunction with PEN Azores, for his memoir Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances.

Marilyn Duarte’s essay Echoes of the Three Marias in the Me Too Movement was published in The Longleaf Review.

Vix Guiterrez’s essay Dark Sky City, workshopped at Disquiet 2019, was published in Subtropics.

Jennifer Jean collaborated with Amir Al-Azraki on a translation of “I Sleep in my Inkwell and Wave to the Distant,” appearing in the June issue of Poetry

Two Disquiet alumni, Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Theodore Wheeler, were awarded NEA fellowships for 2020.

Congratulations to all!

 

 

 

 

Out now! A Fish Growing Lungs by Alysia Sawchyn

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Alysia Sawchyn’s debut book of essays, A Fish Growing Lungs, is available now from Burrow Press!

“At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs takes the form of linked essays that reflect on Sawchyn’s diagnosis and its unraveling, the process of withdrawal and recovery, and the search for identity as she emerges from a difficult past into a cautiously hopeful present.”

If it’s stll Wednesday afternoon when you read this, there may still be time to register for Alysia’s online book launch (7pm Eastern) via Zoom.

“An escape into inspiration”

A group of major Portuguese authors have found a way to keep themselves and their readers busy during the lockdown: they’re writing a serial novel, with each writer given 24 hours to respond to the previous chapter.

You can read about the project in The Guardian, or follow the story in English, here.

Issue 19 of The Common out today!

 

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The Common is one of the best-looking (and just plain best) journals out there. You can browse the new issue (including a portfolio of Sudanese fiction and art, “essays on brothers and murder trials, fiction about gender roles, bomb shelters, and life inside a correctional facility, and poems by Don Share, John Freeman, Tara Skurtu, and more,”) for free online or order your own copy to enjoy.

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