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Applications will open soon for our 2026 program! We'll be updating the site throughout the next few months, so check back soon for more information.

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International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal June 28 - July 10 2026

meet our Faculty

2026 faculty will be announced soon! 2025's faculty and guests included Gabriel Bump, Camille Bordas, Erica Dawson, Emma Copley Eisenberg, John Keene, Adam Levin, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Cyriaco Lopes, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Terri Witek and editors from The Common and Granta.

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We'll be updating program information for 2026 shortly - come back in September for workshops, costs and deadlines, and other information about the program

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Applications for 2026 will be available soon! Apply by December 5 to secure your place in our Summer 2026 program.

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July 25, 2025

Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão

We’re excited to learn that 2023 alum Jennifer Galvão’s debut novel, Maria, Maria, is now forthcoming from Random House!
July 14, 2025

New poem by Carson Wolfe in Poetry!

You can read “Silicon Valley, in the Backseat of a Tesla” here. Carson’s book, Coin Laundry at Midnight, is forthcoming from Button Poetry in...
July 10, 2025

Vigil by Susie Taylor

Congratulations to 2023 alum Susie Taylor, whose collection Vigil was awarded the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for fiction and the 2025 Alistair MacLeod Award for...

June 30, 2025

Ellie Black and Aiden Heung in The Common

Congratulations again to DISQUIET Prize poetry finalists Ellie Black and Aiden Heung, whose poems you can read here alongside Pedro Poitevin in The...
June 24, 2025

“Caribbean Gothic” by Tylea Richard out now!

Congratulations again to the winner of the 2025 DISQUIET Prize in Nonfiction, Tylea Richard! Tylea’s winning essay, “Caribbean Gothic,” is...
June 17, 2025

New translation by Jay Boss Rubin

2015 alum Jay Boss Rubin’s translation of the Swahili novel Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi is out today! Rosa Mistika was first published...

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