{"id":17,"date":"2017-01-24T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-03-30T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:16:41","slug":"2017-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-and-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2017\/01\/24\/2017-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-and-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Nonfiction Prize Winner and Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Howling Bird Press is pleased to announce the winner of our 2017 prize in nonfiction:\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Still Life with Horses<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0by Jean Harper, which the press will publish in fall of this year.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jean Harper\u2019s first book <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rose City: A Memoir of Work<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> won the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Indiana University East and lives and writes on a hundred-year-old horse farm in northern Indiana. Her website is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jeanharper.org\/\"> www.jeanharper.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">We also send hearty congratulations to the finalists for this year&#8217;s competition (in alphabetical order by last name):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steve Fellner,\u00a0<em>I Wanted to Eat Lightbulbs and Other Essays<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Ferrence,\u00a0<em>Field Trips\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gary Fincke,\u00a0<em>The Darkness Call<\/em><\/p>\n<p>J.L. Schneider,\u00a0<em>Cusichaca Moonshine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fred Taylor,\u00a0<em>Migrating Toward Home<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gail Waldstein,\u00a0<em>The Mother Factor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We received many wonderful submissions, and we are grateful to\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the authors who entrusted us with their work&#8211;it was a pleasure to read them all.<\/p>\n<p>Our next contest will be open to poetry manuscripts. Submission dates are April 15 to June 30, 2017, and manuscripts are uploaded at our Submittable page, where further guidelines will be posted:\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Howling Bird Press on Submittable\" href=\"https:\/\/augsburghowlingbirdpress.submittable.com\/submit\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/augsburghowlingbirdpress.submittable.com\/submit<\/a>. There is a $25.00 entry fee.<\/p>\n<p>The previous winners of our contests are Jacob M. Appel&#8217;s short story collection\u00a0<em>The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street<\/em>\u00a0(2016) and Marci Vogel&#8217;s poetry collection\u00a0<em>At the Border of Wilshire and Nobody<\/em>\u00a0(2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howling Bird Press is pleased to announce the winner of our 2017 prize in nonfiction:\u00a0Still Life with Horses\u00a0by Jean Harper, which the press will publish in fall of this year.\u00a0Jean Harper\u2019s first book Rose City: A Memoir of Work won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2017\/01\/24\/2017-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-and-finalists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}