KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine with her poem "March" was the winner of the February writing contest by the Chattanooga Writers' Guild. The theme was "Hope," and the judge was Finn Bille.
There were seven entries.
Edge of the Echo is scheduled to launch Ms. Ballentine’s seventh collection in the Spring of 2021 with Iris Press. Her earlier books can be found on Blue Light Press, Middle Creek Publishing and Celtic Cat Publishing. She is published in Crab Orchard Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, and other fine presses. Her work also appears in anthologies, including In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017).
March's contest theme is "Endurance." The judge will be John C. Mannone, assisted by Ann Thornfield-Long and Mark Anderson. John C. Mannone has poems in the North Dakota Quarterly, Le Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, New England Journal of Medicine, and others. His poetry won the Dwarf Stars Award (2020) and Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest (2020). He was also the recipient of the Carol Oen Memorial Fiction Prize (2020) and the Joy Margrave Award (2015, 2017) for creative nonfiction. He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as the celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). His latest collection, Flux Lines, is forthcoming from Linnet’s Wings Press (2021). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. A former CWG president and retired physics professor, he lives between Knoxville and Chattanooga.
Full contest rules and how to submit are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/144cvXGdUTz_kmVY-B_EvmsQ61AurqjFYRZAs8QkEe84/edit?usp=sharing