Join Katherine Vaz for a two-day online class on Fernando Pessoa and Portuguese Literature, July 19 and 20: .

Julia Lichtblau's @center4fiction reading group, Braided Narratives: Afro-Francophone Novels by Diop and GauZ', starts August 26:.

All you Brooklynites and Brooklyn-adjacent-ites, be sure to check out the summer reading groups led by DISQUIET alumni Julia Lichtblau and Zack Graham at the @center4fiction on Lafayette Ave!.

2025 DISQUIET participant Curtis McRae's debut collection of short stories, Quietly, Loving Everyone, was just released on April 29th from @VehiculePress and will be launched in Montreal on May 15th! Check it out here:

Huge congratulations to 2023 DISQUIET faculty member Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction!.

Massive congrats to 2015 DISQUIET alum Corey Van Landingham on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry!

So excited for DISQUIET 2012 alum Karen Uhlmann’s debut novel INTERSECTIONS, out next Tues, May 6!

DISQUIET alum and 2024 NEA fellow Darina Sikmashvili has a new story forthcoming in @TheEndMagazine! For more info about her writing, visit

Celebrate the final days of National Poetry Month with Gyroscope Review’s Poem Renaissance, featuring DISQUIET alum David Colodney! Read his poem here:

Check out this interview with DISQUIET 2013 alum @natashahakimiz on her new book, Another World Is Possible!.

Huge congrats to DISQUIET 2024 alum Karol Lagodzki, whose novel Controlled Conversations was named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel!.

2018 DISQUIET alum Kelly Vance recently appeared in Ghost City Review (@GhostCityPress) with “Coping Strategies.” Read it here!

Check out this beautiful poem by 2015 alum Corey Van Landingham in the @sewaneereview!

Congratulations to DISQUIET alum @wesblake_ ! His novella Pineville Trace was a 2025 Feathered Quill Award finalist.

Can’t wait for The Grand Paloma Resort, a novel by DISQUIET 2019 alum @cleyvisnatera! Coming August 12.

Check out Devotion in the Open Air, a gorgeous anthology edited by DISQUIET alum @ChyinaP!.

2023 alum Joseph Earl Thomas’s (@jetvgc) new essay “Ganny” appears in the new issue of @Harpers! Gorgeous, fraught, loving, and furious–read it here.

“Just Girls,” the 2025 DISQUIET Fiction Prize-winning story by @saraheperrin, is out now in @GrantaMag! Read it here:

Congrats to Stefan Bindley-Taylor, winner of 2025's Flowers Fellowship honoring faculty emeritus Arthur Flowers! Thanks to a generous donor, the Flowers Fellow will receive a full tuition waiver to attend Disquiet, plus airfare, housing, and a small stipend for expenses.

So excited to see DISQUIET alum Adam al-Sirgany’s (@adam_al_sirgany) new story collection MORE HELL available for preorder! Coming Aug 2025 from Whisk(e)y Tit press.