International Literary Program

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PROGRAM & GUIDE
International
Literary Program
LISBON
JULY 3 æ JULY 15
æ 2016
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM
Program Schedule
 open-to-the-public session
Metro station
 GETTING THERE
All events indicate both the meeting point for the event AND directions to the event
if you wish to travel there on your own. Following the program schedule, there are
detailed maps and directions for each location. For those who wish to be escorted,
an assistant will meet participants at the CNC approximately 45 minutes before
each event to travel there together by taxi, foot, or public transport.
JULY 3, Sunday
4.00 pm ORIENTATION & WELCOME (see the Maps & Directions sections
for directions to the CNC from the program hotels/hostels)
Centro Nacional de Cultura
Rua António Maria Cardoso, 68
Baixa-Chiado
6.00 pm | 8.00 pm DISQUIET ’16 OPENING RECEPTION
Hotel do Chiado – “Entretanto” Rooftop Bar
Rua Nova do Almada, 114
Baixa-Chiado
Drinks and appetizers will be served.
JULY 4, Monday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm CORE WORKSHOPS
Fiction with MIKHAIL IOSSEL; Fiction with MAAZA MENGISTE;
Fiction with PADGETT POWELL;
Fiction & Nonfiction with MOLLY ANTOPOL;
Nonfiction & Memoir with CHANAN TIGAY;
Poetry with ERICA DAWSON;
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LISBON, JULY 3  JULY 15  2016 PROGRAM & GUIDE
Writing the Luso-Experience with KATHERINE VAZ
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm LAUNCH OF NEM CÁ NEM LÁ with FRANK X. GASPAR,
MARGARIDA VALE DE GATO, KATHERINE VAZ, MARTIN EARL, OONA PATRICK,
RICHARD ZIMLER, RUI ZINK, TERESA F. A. ALVES, and the PEnPAL PROJECT
São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Jardim de Inverno (Winter Garden)
Baixa-Chiado
Nem Cá Nem Lá (Neither Here nor There) is a Portuguese-language anthology
of 29 new translations of both classic and emerging North American writers of
Portuguese descent—from John Dos Passos to Esmeralda Cabral—some of whom
are appearing in Portuguese translation for the first time. Nearly half are past
DISQUIET participants, faculty, or guest speakers, and many of the writers
and translators met in joint translation workshops with the University of Lisbon
or in the conference of the same name held concurrently
with DISQUIET ‘13.The event will be moderated by Teresa F. A. Alves.
Since its reopening on November 30, 2002, the São Luiz Municipal Theatre has
established itself as a major presence in Lisbon’s theater scene, with hundreds
of performances per season between the Main Hall and the Winter Garden. The
original theatre was built in 1894 and then re-built using the original design two
years after it burnt down in 1914.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with MOLLY ANTOPOL and JACINTO LUCAS PIRES
Bertrand Chiado
Rua Garrett, 73
Baixa-Chiado
Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the New York Public
Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a “5 Under 35” Award from the National
Book Foundation, and France’s Translation Prize. The book was longlisted for the
National Book Award; was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut
Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book Award,
the California Book Award and others; and will be published in seven countries.
Her writing has appeared widely and won a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She’s the recipient
of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford,
where she currently teaches.
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and
playwright. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz
and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 DST Distinguished Literature Award for the
best book published in Portugal in the past two years. Lucas Pires won the Prémio
Europa/David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal)
in 2008. Grosso modo, his new short-story collection, has just come out in Portuguese
(by Cotovia). Jacinto Lucas Pires has written three novels, two short-story
collections and two non-fiction books. He plays with the band Os Quais,
and he keeps the blog O que eu gosto de bombas de gasolina. His soccer column
appears in O Jogo.
Bertrand Chiado is the oldest bookstore in the world still in operation. It was
founded in 1732, destroyed by the earthquake of 1755, and then rebuilt some years
later at this, its present location. With 52 other locations, Bertrand is now the
largest national book-chain in Portugal.
9.00 pm | 11.00 pm MIRADOURO MEET-UP
Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara
Join us for an informal evening meet-up at one of Lisbon’s famous miradouros.
(For more information on miradouros, see “Miradouros” in the Program Guide,
above.)
JULY 5, Tuesday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS
Adventures in Form with DAVID CAPLAN;
Parody and Satire with CHRISTOPHER CERF;
Performance and Storytelling with ARTHUR FLOWERS;
The Pessoa Game with CYRIACO LOPES and TERRI WITEK;
Structured Writing Time with DISQUIET STAFF;
Baixa-Chiado
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 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING with DAVID CAPLAN, FRANK X. GASPAR,
and R. DEAN JOHNSON
Livraria Ferin
Rua Nova do Almada, 70-74
Baixa-Chiado
David Caplan is the author of the poetry collection In the World He Created According
to His Will (University of Georgia Press, 2010), as well as three books of criticism,
most recently, Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming
Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014). He received the 2012 Emily Clark Balch
Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review for “Observances,” a sequence
of poems set in a Chabad Lubavitch yeshiva in Morristown, New Jersey. His other
honors include two Fulbright lectureships in American Literature at the University
of Liège in Belgium. He serves as a contributing editor to Pleiades: A Journal of
New Writing and Virginia Quarterly Review and holds the Charles M. Weis Chair
in English at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Frank X. Gaspar is the author of five collections of poetry and two novels. His work
has appeared widely in magazines and literary journals, including The Nation,
The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review,
The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner,
The Tampa Review, Miramar, and others. He is the Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair,
Writer in Residence, Mercer University, 2016, and also teaches in the MFA Writing
Program at Pacific University, Oregon. His most recent novel is Stealing Fatima,
the story of a priest’s search for redemption in a small town at the tip of Cape Cod,
recently translated and published in Portugal.
R. Dean Johnson is the author of Delicate Men: Stories (Alternative Book Press,
2014) and Californium: A Novel of Punk Rock, Growing Up, and Other Dangerous Things
(Plume-Penguin, 2016). An Associate Professor at Eastern Kentucky University,
he also serves as director of EKU’s low-residency MFA in creative writing program,
Bluegrass Writers Studio. Originally from California, he now lives in Kentucky with
his wife, the writer Julie Hensley, and their two children.
The origin of the Livraria Ferin bookshop dates back to the early 19th Century
Peninsular War. Belgian Jean Baptiste Ferin, the first of his name to immigrate
to Lisbon, was the great-great-great-great grandfather of the present bookseller,
Joao paulo Dias Pinheiro. Livraria Ferin is the second oldest bookstore in Lisbon
and has remained in the hands of the same family throughout its history.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with TEOLINDA GERSÃO and MAAZA MENGISTE
FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
(Luso-American Development Foundation)
Auditorium
Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21 (Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from
CNC 45 mins before start time)
Teolinda Gersão was born in Coimbra (Portugal) and has lived in Germany,
São Paulo, and Mozambique. She is the author of 16 books, novels and short story
collections, translated into 12 languages. She was awarded the Pen Club Prize
for the Novel twice in 1981 and 1989, the Grand Prix for the Novel by the Portuguese
Writers´ Association in 1995, the Fiction Prize of the ICLA (International Critics´
Literary Association) in 1995 and the Portuguese Writers´ Association’s Grand Prix
for the Short Story in 2001, the Literary Prize of the Inês de Castro Foundation in
2008 and the Prize for Novel António Quadros in 2012. She was writer-in-residence
at Berkeley University in 2004, and many of her short stories have been published
in literary reviews in the USA. Her novel The Word Tree was published in Great
Britain by Dedalus. Her latest novel, Passagens, came out in March 2014 and won
the Fernando Namora Prize in 2015. Her next book of short stories is coming out
in October. Her forthcoming publications abroad include A Cidade de Ulisses
(The City of Ulysses), Os Teclados (The Keyboards) and Três Histórias com Anjos
(Three Angel Stories) in Rio de Janeiro, by Oficina Raquel. A Cidade de Ulisses
will be published in the USA by Dalkey Archive.
Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar, photographer, and the award-winning
author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best
contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of
2010 by The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other
publications. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared in The New Yorker,
The Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio 4, Granta, and Lettre Internationale,
among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the
2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First
Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award
in Adult Debut. She was also a writer on the documentary film, Girl Rising. Her
second novel, The Shadow King, is forthcoming.
FLAD’s headquarters are in a seventeenth century historic house. They have been
helping in its recovery and restoration as part of their ongoing mission to preserve
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national heritage. The “noble house” was built when downtown Lisbon was restored
after the 1755 earthquake. It is a fine example of the Lisbon architecture from the
early post-earthquake years.
JULY 6, Wednesday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm CORE WORKSHOPS ANTOPOL; DAWSON; IOSSEL;
MENGISTE; POWELL; TIGAY; VAZ
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30pm | 4.00 pm PUBLISHING TALK with JOHN HENNESSY,
ELIZABETH L. HODGES and GUILHERMINA GOMES followed by
WINE RECEPTION courtesy of The St. Petersburg Review
Bertrand Chiado
Rua Garrett, 73
Baixa-Chiado
John Hennessy is the author of two collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge
and Tunnel, and his poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including
Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, Poetry, Fulcrum, Harvard Review, The
New Republic, The Huffington Post, Best New Poets 2005, and The Yale Review. In
2007-2008 he held the Resident Fellowship in Poetry at the Amy Clampitt House.
Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common, a print magazine based at Amherst
College, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Elizabeth L. Hodges is the editor/publisher of St. Petersburg Review and
Springhouse Journal. She has published work in the Connecticut Poetry Review,
The New Virginia Review, The North American Review, and Ploughshares among others.
Her book of poetry, Witchery, was published this Spring 2016 by MadHat Press.
Guilhermina Gomes has been working in international and Portuguese publishing
for more than 30 years. For decades she has attended the Frankfurt and London
book fairs. And she is currently the Director of Círculo de Leitores, a reader's circle,
and Temas e Debates, a quality nonfiction trade publisher. She completed degrees
from Cambridge University and the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon as
well as a publishing course at Stanford University, and she is a Juror of the Literary
Prize José Saramago.
The St. Petersburg Review is an annual independent journal of contemporary
literature that seeks to support global connections and affinities through publishing
quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama from writers of all countries. The SPR
has published 100+ international writers from 50+ countries and has held literary
events in Boston, Chicago, Montreal, NYC, Paris, and St. Petersburg.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with MIKHAIL IOSSEL and CHANAN TIGAY
Museu do Chiado
Rua Serpa Pinto, 4
Baixa-Chiado
Mikhail Iossel, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants
to Know (W.W. Norton) and co-editor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers
View the United States (Dalkey Archive, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New
Russia (Tin House, 2010), is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia
University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada – and the founding director of the Summer
Literary Seminars international program. His stories, in English and in translation
to a number of other languages, have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Literarian,
Agni Review, The North American Review, Boulevard, Best American Short Stories, and
elsewhere.
Chanan Tigay is the author of The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s
Oldest Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins), and two long works of nonfiction, “The Special
Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army” (McSweeney’s) and “Nuclear
Meltdown,” released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear
disaster in Japan. His journalism has appeared in publications including The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the San
Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. He is assistant professor of creative
writing at San Francisco State University.
Museu do Chiado is famous for its collection of paintings and sculptures from the
Romantic and Modernist periods (1850-1950). It is housed in the Convento de São
Francisco in an area frequented by many of the artists represented in the museum.
In recent years it has been working to grow its collection of contemporary artists
and to showcase temporary exhibitions in diverse media.
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JULY 7, Thursday
10 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS CAPLAN; CERF; FLOWERS; LOPES & WITEK;
DISQUIET STAFF
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm PANEL: ANGOLAN PORTUGUESE WRITERS
with DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA and JOSÈ EDUARDO AGUALUSA,
moderated by MAAZA MENGISTE
Livraria Ferin
Baixa-Chiado
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1982. A graduate
of the New University of Lisbon and of the University of Lisbon, she was one of the
recipients of serrote’s essay prize (Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil) in 2013. Her writing
has appeared in Afrolis, Buala, Common Knowledge, Forma de Vida, Ler, Observador,
and XXI. Esse Cabelo (Teorema/ Leya, 2015), a mixture of fiction, memoir, and essay,
and the winner of the Novos Literature Prize 2016, is her first book.
José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], born 1960 in Huambo, Angola, spends
most of his time in Portugal, Angola and Brazil, working as a writer and journalist.
His books have been translated into 25 languages.
So far, four of his books have been translated into English: Creole (2002, Arcadia.
Orig.: Nação crioula), The Book of Chameleons (2006, Arcadia, UK; 2008, Simon &
Schuster, USA. Orig.: O Vendedor de Passados), My father’s wives (2008, Arcadia.
Orig.: As mulheres do meu pai) and Rainy Season (2009, Arcadia. Orig.: Estação das Chuvas).
He also wrote four plays, W generation, O monólogo, Chovem amores na Rua do Matador
and A Caixa Preta. The last two were written with Mia Couto.
He received three literary grants: one from the Centro Nacional da Cultura in 1997
to write Creole, a second one in 2000 from the Fundação do Oriente which allowed him
to stay three months in Goa and write Um estranho em Goa and a third one in 2001
from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst which allowed him to live one year
in Berlin where he wrote O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio. In the beginning of 2009,
Agualusa completed his novel Barroco tropical in Amsterdam while living in the
residency for writers, a joint initiative by the Dutch Foundation for Literature
and the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature.
Agualusa was recentely shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize.
 6:30 pm | 8pm READING with ARTHUR FLOWERS and ANNIE LIONTAS
São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Jardim de Inverno (Winter Garden)
Baixa-Chiado
Arthur Flowers, native of Memphis, is author of novels and nonfictions, including
Another Good Loving Blues, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman,
and the graphic work I See The Promised Land from Tara Books, India. He is a
Delta-based performance poet, webmaster of Rootsblog, and has been Executive
Director of various nonprofits and the Harlem Writers Guild, NYC. He has received
various awards including an NEA and The Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues
Alive Award, a distinction for which he is unduly proud. He teaches MFA Fiction
at Syracuse University.
Annie Liontas’ debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New
York Times Book Review as Editor’s Choice and was selected by the ABA as a 2015
Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title. She is the co-editor of the anthology
A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and the recipient of a grant from the
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Annie was the 2016 Visiting Writer at UCDavis.
Since 2003, she has been dedicated to urban education, working with teachers
and youth in Newark and Philadelphia. She lives across the street from the best
pizza jawn with her wife and cat. Follow her @aliontas.
Miradouro do Elevador de Santa Justa (meet in the Largo do Carmo square around
Chafariz do Carmo and in front of Convento do Carmo)
Join us for an informal evening meetup at one of Lisbon’s famous miradouros.
JULY 8, Friday
Baixa-Chiado
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 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING with CHRISTOPHER CERF, CYRIACO LOPES
and TERRI WITEK
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Rua Academia das Ciências, 19
Baixa-Chiado
Please note that the dress code here is business casual.
Christoper Cerf is an author, music and television producer, composer-lyricist,
humorist, and co-founder and president of the educational media production
company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., where he serves as Co-Executive Producer
of the ten-time Emmy-winning PBS children’s literacy show, Between the Lions.
In addition to his work as a senior editor at Random House and service as a
member of the Modern Library’s Board of Advisors, Cerf helped launch the National
Lampoon and conceived and co-edited Not the New York Times. All these successes
notwithstanding, he is perhaps best known for his work as an author and satirist.
He is the author of several books, including Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary
of Deceptive Language, co-written with Henry Beard and published just in time
for the 2016 election campaign.
In the past few years Cyriaco Lopes’ work has been seen in the U.S. at the
Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s
Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other
venues. In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, Poland, Chile,
and Portugal. In his native Brazil the artist has shown at the National Museum of Fine
Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, and the Museum of Art of São Paulo,
among other institutions. His work was curated into exhibitions by artists such as Janine
Antoni, Luciano Fabro, and Lygia Pape, as well as by curators such as Paulo Herkenhoff.
Lopes was the winner of the Worldstudio AIGA and RTKL awards, the Contemporary Art
Museum Project award (Saint Louis) and the Prêmio Phillips of a trip to Paris. His most
recent New York City show, Crimes Against Love, was featured on the front page
of The Advocate. His collaborations with Terri Witek include Big Bronze Statues,
chosen as one of the highlights of the 2009 season by Time Out New York, A Shelter
on King’s Road, and Uma Coisa N’Outra.
Terri Witek is the author of Body Switch (2016), Exit Island (which includes a suite
of images by Cyriaco Lopes and an art book edition), The Shipwreck Dress, Carnal
World, Fools and Crows, Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book
Arts Contest) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self. Her poems
have appeared in Slate, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, The American
Poetry Review, and other journals, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the
MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat, and the state
of Florida. A native of northern Ohio, she holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing
at Stetson University. With Cyriaco Lopes she teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field
in Stetson’s low residency MFA of the Americas. http://www.terriwitek.com/
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa is one of the oldest national scientific institutions
in continued existence, having been founded on December 24, 1779, during the
reign of Queen Mary I. Its mission is to promote scientific research, encourage
the study of the Portuguese language and literature, and to promote the study of
Portuguese history.
 6:30 pm | 8pm READING with DENIS JOHNSON
Livraria Ferin
Baixa-Chiado
Denis Johnson is the National Book Award-winning author of The Laughing
Monsters, Tree of Smoke, Train Dreams, and Jesus’s Son. In addition to several
novels, he has written non-fiction, poetry, plays and screenplays. An Iowa Writers’
Workshop graduate and Guggenheim Fellow, Johnson has been awarded the
Whiting Writer’s Award (1986), a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993), The Paris
Review’s Aga Khan Prize (2002), and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
(2008, 2012). Born in Munich, he now lives in North Idaho.
JULY 9, Saturday
FREE DAY
(see “Taking Advantage of Off-Days” in the Guide for suggested activities)
JULY 10, Sunday
FREE AFTERNOON
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 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with ROSA ALICE BRANCO, ERICA DAWSON
and MEGAN FERNANDES
Ler Devagar
Rua Rodrigues de Faria, 103
(The bookstore inside the LXFactory)
Rosa Alice Branco is a poet, essayist, translator and researcher at ID+ (Institute of
Research in Design, Media and Culture). With a Ph.D. in Philosophy, she teaches
“Theory of Perception” at ESAD College of Art and Design (Matosinhos) and directs
the “Design e” book collection, published by ESAD and Verso da História publishers.
Her bibliography includes essays and 13 books of poetry, including her complete
poetic work, Soletrar o Dia (2002), and O Gado do Senhor, which won the wellregarded EspiralMaior prize. In 2012, she was chosen by an international jury to
represent Portugal in the Poetry Olympics at the “Parnassus Poetry Festival” in London.
In 2013, she was awarded the International Translation Prize in Corsica. Later this year,
her book Cattle of the Lord will be published in the USA by Milkweed Editions.
Erica Dawson, winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize and the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize,
is the author of two collections of poetry: Big-Eyed Afraid and The Small Blades Hurt. Her poems have appeared in two editions of Best American Poetry, in Birmingham
Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, Southwest Review, Virginia
Quarterly Review, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, and other journals and anthologies.
Holding an MFA from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from University of
Cincinnati, she is an assistant professor of English and Writing at University
of Tampa, where she teaches both in the undergraduate program and directs
the low-residency MFA.
Megan Fernandes is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015)
and the poetry editor of the anthology Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books 2011).
Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, Pank
Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets,
and others. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College
and a former FLAD-DISQUIET Luso-American fellowship winner.
Ler Devagar is a bookstore inside the LXFactory, a hip art and design space housing
150 artists and startups in a re-invigorated industrial fabrics complex. Lining
the main strip are many cafes, restaurants, and design-stores, with boutique ad
agencies, design firms, startups, galleries, and studios above. Wander upstairs in
Ler Devagar to see the antique printing press.
JULY 11, Monday
Baixa-Chiado
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING AND Q&A ON FERNANDO PESSOA
with RICHARD ZENITH
Casa Fernando Pessoa
Rua Coelho da Rocha, 16
Born in Washington, DC, Richard Zenith is a long-time resident of Portugal,
where he works as a freelance writer, translator, researcher and critic. He has
prepared numerous editions of Fernando Pessoa’s work and translated much of his
prose and poetry into English. His Education by Stone: Selected Poems by Brazil’s
João Cabral de Melo Neto won the 2006 translation award from the Academy
of American Poets. Zenith’s fiction translations include novels by António Lobo
Antunes, José Luandino Vieira, and José Luís Peixoto. Author of a Fotobiografia de
Fernando Pessoa, he has also published poems and a collection of short stories,
Terceiras Pessoas.
Opened in November 1993, the cultural centre Casa Fernando Pessoa was conceived
by the Lisbon City Council as a tribute to Fernando Pessoa and his memory. With its
auditorium, garden, exhibition rooms, works of art, a library exclusively dedicated to
poetry, in addition to furniture and personal items from the poet’s estate, the Casa
Fernando Pessoa is a small but multifarious Pessoan world in the city where he lived
and the area in which he spent the last fifteen years of his life, Campo de Ourique.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm READING with LUÍSA COSTA GOMES and KATHERINE VAZ
FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American
Development Foundation)
Auditorium
Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21
(Taxi is the best way to get to FLAD; but as with all events, groups will leave from CNC 45
mins before start time)
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Luísa Costa Gomes writes short stories, novels, plays, and screenplays. She has
written 11 plays, 6 novels, 5 collections of short stories, several books for children,
and 2 librettos, including the libretto for the opera White Raven by Philip Glass
and Robert Wilson, performed in Lisbon at Teatro Camões in 1998, and at the Teatro
Real de Madrid. Some of her awards include the Pen Club Portugal Prize (2010)
and the Fernando Namora Prize for Best Portuguese Novel (2010), both for Ilusão
(Illusion), and the Prize Camilo Castelo Branco Prize for Contos Outra Vez (Twice Told
Tales), awarded by the Portuguese Writers Association (1998).
Katherine Vaz has been a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University
and Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. This fall she is the Harman
Fellow in Fiction at Baruch College. She’s the author of two novels, Saudade (a
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection) and Mariana, published in six
languages and picked by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International
Books of 1998. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won a Drue Heinz Literature
Prize and Our Lady of the Artichokes won a Prairie Schooner Award. Her children’s
stories have appeared in anthologies by Viking, Penguin, and Simon and Schuster,
and her short fiction has appeared in many magazines. She’s the first PortugueseAmerican to have her work recorded by the Library of Congress (Hispanic Division).
JULY 12, TUESDAY
10 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS CAPLAN; CERF; FLOWERS; LOPES & WITEK;
DISQUIET STAFF
Baixa-Chiado
1.00 | 2.15 pm EDITING SESSION
EDITING TOWARDS THE INEVITABLE: PRACTICES FOR REVISION
with ANNIE LIONTAS
EDITING POETRY: THE SUCCESSFUL MAGAZINE SUBMISSION
with JOHN HENNESSY
Baixa-Chiado
Sign-up for a session on the sign-up sheets during orientation.
Editing Towards the Inevitable with Annie Liontas: How can we arrive at a story’s
perfect, inevitable expression? We can’t, but we write and re-write, hoping to get
to that ever-elusive raison: we claim it, we let it claim us, and then we curate the
work to allow for little else. Following in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway, this
seminar introduces participants to a methodology for revision that allows for critical
application of edits. Think of us as mechanics getting under the hood, trying to get
this thing to run.
Editing Poetry: The Successful Magazine Submission with John Hennessy: Drawing
from his experience on both sides of the submission process, as poet and poetry
editor for The Common, John Hennessy will help participants in this seminar
prepare their work for magazine publication. We’ll discuss editing individual poems,
selecting the best combination of poems to make up the submission, choosing the
appropriate venues for your work, writing the cover letter, and a few poor decisions
to avoid. Participants are invited to send a selection of 3-6 poems (to a maximum
of 8 pages) ahead of the seminar so that we can use our meeting time to help
each member of the group polish a selection of poems to send to editors.
 2.30 pm | 4.00 pm READING with JOHN HENNESSEY and SUSANA MOREIRA
MARQUES
Livraria Ferin
Baixa-Chiado
John Hennessy is the author of two collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge
and Tunnel, and his poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including
Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, Poetry, Fulcrum, Harvard Review, The New
Republic, The Huffington Post, Best New Poets 2005, and The Yale Review. Hennessy
went to Princeton University on a Cane Scholarship, and he received graduate
degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas.
In 2007-2008 he held the Resident Fellowship in Poetry at the Amy Clampitt House.
Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common, a print magazine based at Amherst
College, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and journalist living in Lisbon. Between 2005
and 2010 Moreira Marques lived in London, working at the BBC. She has won
several prizes for her journalism, including the 2012 UNESCO ‘Human Rights and
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Integration’ Journalism Award (Portugal). She is the author of Now and at the Hour
of Our Death, published in 2015 in the UK and the US by And Other Stories, in a
translation by Julia Sanches. Now and at the Hour of Our Death (Agora e na Hora da
Nossa Morte) is the result of visits to a home palliative care project in the remote
northeast of Portugal and was first published by Tinta-da-china in Portugal in 2012.
6.00 | 8.30 pm PARTICIPANT OPEN MIC
[sign-up to read on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]
Grémio Literário
Rua Ivens, 37
Baixa-Chiado
The Grémio Literário was created in 1846 by royal charter of Queen D. Maria II, thus
giving her support to the initiative of a prestigious group of writers, politicians, and
aristocrats of the Portuguese liberal world. Thirty years later the Grémio settled
into its present facilities, the Loures Palace, in the Chiado quarter, that elegant
center of the Lisbon intellectual and social society, a characteristic building in the
local romantic architecture, with decorated rooms, a rich library, restaurant, and a
picturesque garden dating to 1844 and overlooking the river Tagus and the Moorish
Castle. Among its members, past and present, the Grémio boats twenty-four heads
of state and prime ministers.
Miradouro de Santa Catarina
Baixa-Chiado
Join us for an informal evening meet-up at one of Lisbon’s famous sites.
JULY 13, Wednesday
Baixa-Chiado
1.00 | 2.15 pm EDITING SESSION HENNESSY; LIONTAS
Room: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Baixa-Chiado
[sign-up for a session on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]
 2.30pm | 4.00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION ON LITERARY MENTORS CELEBRATING
ALBERTO DE LACERDA AND THE NEW ANTHOLOGY A MANNER OF BEING:
WRITERS ON THEIR MENTORS with ARTHUR FLOWERS, SCOTT LAUGHLIN,
ANNIE LIONTAS, SABINA MURRAY, and JEFF PARKER
Room: Galeria Fernando Pessoa
Largo do Picadeiro, 10
Baixa-Chiado
In honor of Alberto de Lacerda, to whom the DISQUIET program is dedicated, this
panel discussion will explore the role of mentors in writing and celebrate the recent
publication of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors (University
of Massachusetts Press), edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker. All panelists
are included in the anthology.
4.30pm | 6.00 pm SCREENWRITING SEMINAR with SABINA MURRAY
Room: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Baixa-Chiado
What is screenwriting all about and how does it differ from fiction? This session will
focus on handling time, character, and action in writing for film, as well as give
some basic information on the processes that come into play as a story makes its
way to the big screen.
Sabina Murray is the author of three novels and two story collections—the recent
Tales of the New World, and The Caprices, which won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award.
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute. She wrote the screenplay
for the film Beautiful Country, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit
Award and the Norwegian Amanda Award. She teaches in the MFA Program at the
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A novel, Valiant Gentlemen,
is forthcoming this November.
 6.30 pm | 8.00 pm LECTURE with RUI VIEIRA NERY – “The Portuguese Fado:
From Afro-Brazilian to a National Identity”
Museu do Fado
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, 1
Santa Apolónia
Rui Vieira Nery was born in Lisbon in 1957. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology
from the University of Texas at Austin (1990), which he attended as a Fulbright
Scholar and a grantee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He teaches
at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and he is a senior researcher at the
Ethnomusicology Institute – Centre for Music and Dance Studies and of the
Centre for Theatre Studies. As a musicologist and cultural historian he published
numerous studies on Portuguese music history. From 1995 to 1997 he served
as Secretary of State for Culture in the Portuguese government and is now
an individual member of the Portuguese National Cultural Council, the main
advisory board to the Minister of Culture. He was chairman of the Scientific
Committee of the nomination of Fado to the UNESCO’s Representative List
of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The Museu do Fado celebrates Fado’s exceptional value as an identifying symbol
of the City of Lisbon and its deep roots in the tradition and cultural history of the
country. Visitors learn the history and evolution of Fado through multimedia exhibits
that present the music’s influence from its use in cinema to its role in 20th Century
censorship. Experience technical descriptions of Fado guitars and biographies of all
major Fado personalities.
Miradouro da Graça (a.k.a. Miradouro Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen)
& Miradouro da Nossa Senhora do Monte
Join Parker at Miradouro da Graça for a walk up to a second miradouro,
the Miradouro da Nossa Senhora do Monte, the highest viewpoint in Lisbon.
JULY 14, Thursday
10.00 am | 12.30 pm WORKSHOPS CAPLAN; CERF; FLOWERS; LOPES & WITEK;
DISQUIET STAFF
Baixa-Chiado
1.00 | 2.15 pm EDITING SESSION HENNESSY; LIONTAS
Baixa-Chiado
[sign-up for a session on the sign-up sheets during the orientation]
 2.30 pm | 4 pm READING with SABINA MURRAY and PATRÍCIA REIS
Museu do Aljube
Rua Augusto Rosa, 42
Sabina Murray is the author of three novels and two story collections—the recent
Tales of the New World, and The Caprices, which won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute. She wrote the screenplay
for the film Beautiful Country, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award
and the Norwegian Amanda Award. She teaches in the MFA Program
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A novel, Valiant Gentlemen,
is forthcoming this November.
Patrícia Reis (1970) began her journalistic career in 1988 working in different
Portuguese and international media and moved to New York to work at Time
Magazine. She now lives in Portugal and is the publisher of her own magazine,
Egoísta, and partner of the Design Atelier 004. She is the author of the photo-novel
Beija-me (Kiss Me, 2006), the novella Cruz das Almas (Cross of Souls, 2004),
and the novels Amor em Segunda Mão (Second Hand Love, 2006) and Morder-te
o Coração (To Bite your Heart, 2007), all published by Dom Quixote. No silêncio
de Deus (In God’s Silence), was published in Portugal in September 2008 and
in Brazil in March 2009. Her latest novel, entitled Contracorpo¸ was published
in March 2013. This year, together with writer Maria Manuel Viana, the novel
Gramática do Medo (Grammar of Fear) was published.
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The Aljube – from the Arabic name meaning “well without water” and “prison” was an ecclesiastic prison until the 19th century. During the 1st Republic it was
used as a women’s prison. From 1928, the Military Dictatorship used Aljube prison
for political and social detainees and, with time, it became a private prison of the
political police. It was deactivated in 1965 and now houses the Museu do Aljube,
a museum dedicated to the memory of the fight against dictatorship and the
struggle toward freedom and democracy.
 6.00 | 8.30 pm READING with AFONSO CRUZ and PADGETT POWELL
Casa dos Bicos – Fundação José Saramago
Rua dos Bacalhoeiros
Terreiro do Paço
Afonso Cruz is the author of seven novels, including Kokoschka’s Doll, which won
the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012, and Jesus Christ Drank Beer,
considered the Best Portuguese Novel of the Year by Time Out Lisbon magazine
and the readers of Público. His most recent novel, Where do Umbrellas End Up won
the 2014 Portuguese Society for Authors Award. He was elected as one of the 40
talents for the future by the newspaper Expresso. He is also a columnist, illustrator,
animated film director, and member of the band The Soaked Limb.
Padgett Powell has published six novels and three story collections, most recently Cries
for Help, Various. Edisto made TIME’s Best-of-Year Fiction list and was a nominee
for the National Book Award; it has been published in many countries and languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Paris Review, and
in the anthologies Best American Short Stories, O.Henry Prize Stories, and New Stories
from the South. His awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Pushcart Prize, the
Paris Review John Train Humor Prize, the Prix de Rome from the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction.
He currently teaches at MFA@FLA, the writing program at the University of Florida.
The José Saramago Foundation was created in June 2007 and is funded exclusively
by proceeds from the works of Saramago, who in 1998 won the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Its three basic goals are the promotion of Portuguese and universal culture,
the defense of human rights, and the protection of the environment. Saramago’s ashes
are buried under the roots of the olive tree facing the main entrance of the Casa dos
Bicos, named after the diamond-shaped stones that cover its façade.
JULY 15, Friday
10.00 am | 12.30 Pm CORE WORKSHOPS ANTOPOL; DAWSON; IOSSEL;
Baixa-Chiado
FREE AFTERNOON
6.30 pm | 8.30 pm FAREWELL RECEPTION at the Residence of Robert A. Sherman,
U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 18
(Taxi is the best way to get here; as with all events, groups will leave from CNC
45 mins before start time)
Drinks and appetizers will be served.
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