{"id":809,"date":"2026-09-25T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=809"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:12:19","slug":"2026-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-available-for-preorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2026\/09\/25\/2026-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-available-for-preorder\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize Winner Available for Preorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2026\/09\/MellitusFrontCover-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-829 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Jussel-cover-185x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Jussel-cover-185x300.webp 185w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/11\/Jussel-cover.webp 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>The winner of Howling Bird Press&#8217;s 2026 Nonfiction prize, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/mellitus-essays-on-up-rooting-1\"><em>Mellitus: Essays on Up\/Rooting<\/em><\/a><\/strong> by Jennifer Jussel, is available now for preorder.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/mellitus-essays-on-up-rooting-1\">Preorder from Itasca Books<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H8QCB7BW?lv=shuf&amp;channelId=500&amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/mellitus-essays-on-up-rooting\/41a190dc09fcd759\">Bookshop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Releases October 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis beautiful collection hangs together like poetry, offering a condensed yet fully satisfying reflection on chronic illness and its impact on relationships and hope. Jussel\u2019s admirable lyricism and economy make this a collection to return to and savor.\u201d \u2014Sonya Huber, author of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMellitus is a work of extraordinary unity\u2014even as it acknowledges our ruptures, gaps, and failures. Jussel shows us both her body\u2019s destruction and its resilience. She makes us feel what we often take for granted: that the body is the site and source of our minds, our futures, and our connection to one another. In her hands, the syringe is not just a tool, but an experience to be shared.\u201d \u2014Jonathan Gleason, author of <span class=\"a-text-italic\">Field Guide to Falling Ill<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of Howling Bird Press&#8217;s 2026 Nonfiction prize, Mellitus: Essays on Up\/Rooting by Jennifer Jussel, is available now for preorder. Preorder from Itasca Books, Amazon, or Bookshop Releases October 20, 2026 \u201cThis beautiful collection hangs together like poetry, offering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2026\/09\/25\/2026-howling-bird-press-nonfiction-prize-winner-available-for-preorder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}