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INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM

JUNE 21 - JULY 3, 2020
2020 Program Faculty and Guests to include Jennifer Acker (Editor, The Common), Jensen Beach, Gabriel Bump, Arthur Flowers, Tayari Jones, Shayla Lawson, Ben Lerner, Annie Liontas, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Maaza Mengiste, Katherine Vaz, Joy Williams, and Terri Witek, with Portuguese guests including Teolinda Gersão, Susana Moreira Marques, José Luís Peixoto, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Richard Zenith, and more TBA.


THE LITERARY PRIZE


Disquiet is now accepting contest submissions for The Disquiet Literary Prize for writing in any genre. The top winners in each genre will be published:

The grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship including tuition, lodging, and a $1,000 travel stipend to Lisbon in 2020.

In addition to the main prize, contest entrants may wish to be considered for:

  • The Denis Johnson "STAGAYA" scholarship for a writer who has not yet published a book with a national press (micro-presses and chapbooks are excepted).
  • The Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Scholarship for a female-identifying writer whose work engages with themes of justice, equality, or resistance.

The winner of each scholarship will receive free tuition for the 2020 Program in Lisbon.

Runners-up and other outstanding entrants may also be considered for financial aid.

Read the contest and scholarship guidelines and enter here.

Contest closes January 3, 2020.
Click Here to Submit to the Lit Prize

LUSO/LUSA-AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS

Through a collaboration with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), we are proud to offer four full fellowships for North American writers with a genealogical link to any Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country.
 

Four winners will receive a travel stipend, accommodations, and full tuition to the 2020 program, including a spot in our multi-genre workshop, "Writing the Luso Experience." Runners-up will be offered partial tuition scholarships.

There is no fee to enter.

Fellowship applications close January 3, 2020.
 
Click Here to Submit to the Fellowship
Disquiet 2020 Poetry Faculty Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and three novels. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. He teaches at Brooklyn College and is the poetry editor for Harper's.

Check out this conversation at Lit Hub between Ben Lerner and Ocean Vuong about Ben's most recent novel, The Topeka School.
 

Disquiet 2020 Writing the Luso/a-American Experience Faculty Katherine Vaz is the author of two novels, Saudade and Mariana, as well as two short story collections, Fado & Other Stories and Our Lady of the Artichokes & Other Portuguese-American Stories. She's the recipient of fellowships at Harvard University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Vaz has lectured internationally about Portuguese and Luso-American literature and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress (Hispanic Division).

Check out an excerpt from Katherine Vaz in Narrative Magazine.
 
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– George Saunders
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