INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM

JUNE 21 - JULY 3, 2020

2020 Program Faculty and Guests to include Jennifer Acker (Editor, The Common), Molly Antopol, Jensen Beach, Gabriel Bump, Arthur Flowers, Tayari Jones, Shayla Lawson, Ben Lerner, Annie Liontas, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Maaza Mengiste, Chanan Tigay, 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 fiction winner in Granta.com,
the nonfiction winner in Ninthletter.com,
the poetry winner in The Common.

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.

Deadline this Friday: January 10, 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.

Deadline this Friday: January 10, 2020

Click Here to Submit to the Fellowship

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Disquiet, now in its tenth year, is an international literary program held in Lisbon, Portugal. Its goal is to bring together the best North American and Portuguese writers for two weeks of culture, writing, and adventure.

You'll share your creative writing and receive feedback from our world-renowned faculty in workshops for

fiction with Joy Williams, Maaza Mengiste, and Gabriel Bump
poetry with Ben Lerner and Shayla Lawson
and creative nonfiction with T Kira Madden, Molly Antopol, and Chanon Tigay

You'll also have the chance to explore other aspects of craft in afternoon workshops on a variety of subjects, including

experimental poetry,
performance and oral storytelling,
visual storytelling,
with more TBA

Typical highlights of previous years have included:

participant open mics at the oldest literary club in Portugal,
tours of the Berardo Contemporary Art Gallery,
day trips to Cascais and Sintra,
literary walks,
talks with leading editors from The Common, Granta, and The Paris Review,
manuscript consultations,
inspiring readings with North American and Portuguese writers.

"I can't imagine anyone with an interest in writing or literature going through the Disquiet program and not being profoundly transformed – by the quality of the teaching, by the magic of Lisbon, and by the way the program is organized, which guarantees intellectual and cultural immersion to an extent unimaginable to the casual tourist. Disquiet is, to my way of thinking, the very best program of its type in the world: intense, humane, wildly energetic, with its heart in exactly the right place."
—George Saunders

"I've been a few places as a writer at this point, but I've been nowhere more rewarding. All that saves me from burning up upon re-entry right now is the thought that I need to go back--that I want to be a part of this thing and this place."
—Casey Walker, participant

"Word's best writing program"
— Denis Johnson

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