{"id":774,"date":"2026-02-05T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=774"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:20:57","slug":"2025-howling-bird-fiction-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2026\/02\/05\/2025-howling-bird-fiction-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Howling Bird Fiction Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of Howling Bird Press’s 2025 Fiction Prize is Annie Bruno, for her novel\u00a0Until You Find Your Way.\u00a0<\/em>Her novel will be published by Howling Bird Press this March, and is available for preorder now from Itasca Books!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Until You Find Your Way<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Annie Bruno<\/a> (forthcoming March 23, 2026)<\/p>\n

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Preorder from Itasca Books<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Barnes and Noble<\/a>, or Bookshop\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of losing their eldest child, Beada and Porter have become an estranged couple, living on different continents. She\u2019s in rural Minnesota raising their two other teens, while Porter visits from Bangkok \u201cwhen he can,\u201d disguising his pain as arrogance. When Beada\u2019s only outlet\u2014careful, unorthodox confessions to the local priest\u2014take an abrupt turn, a quiet but seismic shift forces everyone in the family to decide what they cannot live without.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith precise, exquisite prose, Bruno illuminates the relationship between loss and desire and how the heart can find its way when it learns to let go.\u201d \u2014Cassandra Garbus, author of Solo Variations<\/i>\u00a0and winner of the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winner of Howling Bird Press’s 2025 Fiction Prize is Annie Bruno, for her novel\u00a0Until You Find Your Way.\u00a0Her novel will be published by Howling Bird Press this March, and is available for preorder now from Itasca Books! Until You … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"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\/774"}],"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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}