“Men Smoking” by Emily Mathis
DISQUIET alum Emily Mathis is the winner of the Sonora Review Erotic Contest for her essay “Men Smoking”! Congratulations, Emily! Read “Men Smoking” here.
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Congratulations to Caitlin Scarano and Sofi Stambo!
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!
Noelani Piters awarded 2024 PEN Emerging Voices fellowship
2024 DISQUIET alum Noelani Piters was awarded one of ten Emerging Voices Fellowships by PEN America. Congratulations, Noelani!
BOMB Poetry Prize Finalists Jennifer Derilo and Jenny Qi
Two DISQUIET 2024 alumni, Jenny Qi and Jennifer Derilo, were named as finalists for this year’s BOMB Magazine poetry prize. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Bruna Dantas Lobato and Justin Torres!
Congratulations to 2019 DISQUIET faculty Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts, and to Bruna Dantas Lobato, DISQUIET PA and 2018 Luso-American Fellowship recipient, whose translation of Stênio Gardel’s novel The Words That Remain won the National Book Award for translated literature!
Bruna Dantas Lobato longlisted for 2023 National Book Award
We are thrilled to learn that Bruna Dantas Lobato, a 2018 Luso-American Fellow and current Program Assistant, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain. Congratulations, Bruna!
Brother Alive shortlisted for Ursula K. Le Guin Prize
We’re excited to report that alum Zain Khalid’s debut novel, Brother Alive, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Leguin Prize for fiction!
Maaza Mengiste longlisted for the Booker Prize
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.
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!