KateLynn Hibbard’s 2018 poetry book Simples is one of five books nominated for the Read Poetry Central Minnesota program sponsored by Lyricality. Read this blog post by Lyricality’s founder to see some of the wonderful things readers have said about this Howling Bird Press book! https://lyricality.org/2019/12/27/7-reasons-to-read-katelynn-hibbards-3rd-collection-of-poems-simples/
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We are excited that our 2019 fiction prizewinner, Irreversible Things by Lisa Van Orman Hadley, received a glowing review in Foreword Magazine! The first of many to come, we predict! Read the full review here:
We are excited to share the cover design for Lisa Van Orman Hadley’s Irreversible Things, winner of the 2019 Howling Bird Press Fiction Prize, featuring artwork by Jonny VanOrman!
Cover art by Jonny VanOrman
Read our interview with the author at:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/046f35ff-a342-4200-b7aa-7619ee8703bc
As advertised in The Writer’s Chronicle, we are open for submissions of nonfiction manuscripts at https://augsburghowlingbirdpress.submittable.com/submit
Our listing in The Writer’s Chronicle
Howling Bird Press, the publishing house of Augsburg University’s MFA in Creative Writing, offers an annual prize that results in book publication. As a teaching press, we are staffed by graduate students enrolled in our Publishing Concentration. Our prize alternates genres annually, from poetry to fiction to nonfiction.
From April 1 to July 31, 2019, we are accepting submissions in creative nonfiction. The press welcomes innovative, original work from established and emerging authors. The competition is open to all writers in English living in the U.S., whether published or unpublished. Manuscript word counts should be in the 20,000 to 50,000 range. File formats should be either Word .doc or .docx. Pages should be numbered, and the author’s name and address should appear on the first page.
Include a cover letter in the form provided online, and list contact information and a short (100 to 200 word) bio. There is a $25 entry fee. Current and former students of Augsburg’s MFA in Creative Writing are ineligible, as are current faculty and staff of Augsburg University. The winner is announced in January 2020. The winner receives $1,000 and book publication in fall 2020.
Submit online here:
Come celebrate with Howling Bird Press poet KateLynn Hibbard on March 6 at 7:00 p.m. She will be reading from Simples at SubText Bookstore in downtown St. Paul, 6 West Fifth Street. The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
For more information, visit the bookstore’s website:
https://subtextbooks.com/events/2019/3/6/katelynn-hibbard-for-simples
(February 2019, Minneapolis) The editors of Howling Bird Press are excited to announce the finalists and winner of the 2019 Fiction Prize:
Winner
Irreversible Things, Lisa Van Orman Hadley
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
The Physically Challenged: Stories, Henry Alley
The Spillway, Anne Elliott
Rotten Nectarines, Faith Holsaert
A Dead General, Wayne Karlin
Smash and Grab: Love Stories, Kirk Wilson
The press is grateful to the many authors who entered. It was an honor to consider such amazing submissions. The winning book will be published in fall 2019. Please check back here and on our social media for further updates.
KateLynn Hibbard, author of Simples
Recently, Pioneer Press Book Review Editor Mary Ann Grossman sat down with KateLynn Hibbard to discuss Simples, the Howling Bird Press 2018 Poetry Prize winner.
“I want people who think they don’t like poetry to read this book and maybe change their minds,” Hibbard tells Grossmann. “It seemed like a good hybrid of forms, incorporating history and poetry. There is a lot more historical fiction than historical poetry. I think of history in a way that is probably not typical. I deal with the emotional connection to it first of all.”
Grossman writes, “The collection includes poems about the rules single-women teachers had to follow (You must wear at least two petticoats), a battered wife who prays her husband will not come home drunk again, a mother writing to her sister listing five children who died in five years and how the locusts left nothing to eat, and an angry woman who makes money selling eggs, which she walks five miles to sell, but only her husband’s name is on the legal documents.”
“There are happy poems in the collection, too,” Grossman adds, “about making wild rose elixir, and the satisfaction of a woman who made curtains for her home. . . . Several of Hibbard’s poems are about naming flora and fauna.”
Read the full interview to learn more about Hibbard’s research and writing process: