Ned Balbo
Judged: Jan-Mar 2015
Ned Balbo
Ned Balbo‘s The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press) received the Donald Justice Prize and the Poets’ Prize. His previous books are Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize and ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal) and Galileo’s Banquet (Towson University Prize co-winner). Co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he has also received the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. His poetry, prose, flash fictions, and translations appear in Able Muse, Burrow Press Review, Cimarron Review, Hopkins Review, Iowa Review, Measure, Pleiades, Sou’Wester, River Styx, and elsewhere. He currently teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Environment Program at Iowa State University.
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August 2022 Winners
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First Place
Sodom by the Sea
by Ken Ashworth
The Writer's Block
Second Place
Good Omens
by Christine Potter
The Waters
Third Place
Isaac and the Apple
by Rus Bowden
Babilu
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July 2022 Winners
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First Place
striking a match in an empty house
by Billy Howell-Sinnard
The Waters
Second Place
My Soul to Keep
by Jim Doss
Babilu
Third Place
Li Po Adrift
by Bob Bradshaw
The Writer's Block
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