36 posts in Tagged: alumni
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.
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.
DISQUIET alum Veronica Vo has a new piece in The Offing! You can read “Dictionary” here.
DISQUIET alum Emily Mathis is the winner of the Sonora Review Erotic Contest for her essay “Men Smoking”! Congratulations, Emily! Read “Men Smoking” here.
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!
If you find yourself in or around South Hadley, MA on October 2, why not stop in at Odyssey Bookshop for a conversation with Jeff Parker and DISQUIET alum Wes Blake about Wes’ debut novel, Pineville Trace? You can learn more about the event and RSVP here.
If you’ve pre-ordered 2024 DISQUIET alum Karol Lagodzki‘s debut novel Controlled Conversations, it’s heading to your mailbox now from Sunbury Press. If you haven’t, check it out!
LitMag’s fiction awards were dominated by DISQUIET alumni this year: Caitlin Scarano was awarded the Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction and Sofi Stambo won the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Congratulations, Caitlin and Sofi!
2024 DISQUIET alum Noelani Piters was awarded one of ten Emerging Voices Fellowships by PEN America. Congratulations, Noelani!
There’s a great review of alum Wes Blake’s debut novel Pineville Trace over at Smokelong Quarterly – and Pineville Trace is available for pre-order! (out September 3 from Etchings Press). There will also be an audiobook narrated by fellow Disquiet alum Michael Mau, and plenty of events over the next year, all over the country (so check out the schedule at the link).
