Howling Bird, a student-run press at Augsburg College, is Minnesota’s newest small publisher. Howling Bird聽will take flight December 1 with the announcement of the winner of the press’ first National Poetry Prize, according to the Pioneer Press.
The honored poet will receive聽$1,000 and publication by Howling Bird in a trade paperback. That book will be guided聽through the publication process, from editing and design to marketing and distribution, by three students in the newly established publishing concentration in Augsburg’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. To learn more about the MFA program and its students, read “” on the Pioneer Press website.