~ Able Muse Book Award ~
2024
Contest Winner Announcement
Able Muse is pleased to announce the winner of the Book Award for a poetry manuscript, judged anonymously by the final judge, Timothy Steele A message from the judge, Timothy Steele: For the first time ever, the only reader for the contest was the final judge, who read each and every entry to decide on the winner. Here’s his message to all contestants (a first for the contest): "Judging the 2024 Able Muse Book Contest was hard. So many of the approximately 150 entries delighted or moved me, yet only one could win. Another source of difficulty was the wide range of forms and subjects represented in the submissions. I often felt that I was comparing manuscripts that weren’t comparable. While authors who didn’t win may be disappointed, I encourage one and all to continue to practice the art of poetry. Few things are as challenging as writing well. Time and again, in their different and unique ways, the poets in this contest met this challenge. I salute them gratefully."—Timothy Steele Congratulations to the 2024
Able Muse Book Award
She wins the $1,000 prize and publication by Able Muse Press, Spring/Summer 2026. HONORABLE MENTIONS:• Blake N. Campbell: Shadowtackle
• Duane K. Caylor: My Father's Oaks
• J.P. Celia: Big City Lullabies
• Catherine Chandler: Song of the Blue Hour
• Hunt Hawkins: Evening Houses
• Steven Monte: Counterclockwise
• Fred Muratori: Life in the Entropics
• Asa Page: Where There's Smoke
• John Smith: To the Departed
• Michael Spence: Brine Evaporates to Salt on Blacktop
• Katherine Swett: Three CellosCongratulations to our winner and honorable mentions: well done to all! And thank you to everyone who entered.
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The Cupped Field
Green Hill
Manhattanite
The Borrowed World
Cause for Concern
Walking in on People
Virtue, Big as Sin
Dirge for an Imaginary World