ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD
2011 Results
Final Judge: Andrew Hudgins
(Judged anonymously throughout by the Able Muse Contest Committee and the final judge, Andrew Hudgins)
Congratulations to the 2011
Able Muse Book Award
WINNER
Matthew Buckley Smith
for his poetry manuscript
Dirge for an Imaginary World
He wins the $1000 prize and publication by Able Muse Press, Spring/Summer 2012
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FINALISTS
• Aaron Poochigian - The Cosmic Purr
• Maryann Corbett - Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter
• Michael Cantor - Life in the Second Circle
• April Lindner - This Bed Our Bodies Shaped
• Richard Wakefield - A Vertical Mile
Some of the top placing finalists above, in our anonymous judging process, will also be offered a standard Able Muse Press book contract
HONORABLE MENTION
• D.R. Goodman - A Certain Joy
• Stephen Scaer - The Frog's Lament
• Austin McRae - The Organ Builder
• Janet Kenny - This Way to the Exit . . .
Austin MacRae (not verified)
Congrats to all! I look
Congrats to all! I look forward to reading all these new books!