The editors are pleased to announce that George Looney of Erie, Pennsylvania has won the 2022 CPR Editors’ Prize Book Award contest for his manuscript, The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible. Runner-up was In the Salt by Caitlin Dwyer and Honorable Mention goes to House of Dream and Then by Joannie Stangeland.
George Looney’s books include the recently-released Ode to the Earth in Translation, The Worst May Be Over, which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award, The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020, the Red Mountain Press Poetry Award-winning What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations, and the novel Report from a Place of Burning which was co-winner of The Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, editor-in-chief of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.
Looney will receive a standard publishing contract, 25 author copies of the book, and a $1000 honorarium. The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible is scheduled to be published in August, 2023.
