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The Red Ear Blows Its Nose: Poems for Children and Others By Robert Schechter Illustrated by S. Federico 7-Apr-23	Strong Feather By Jennifer-Reeser March 24, 2023	Writing While Parenting By Ben Berman March 10, 2023	Murder in Times Square (A Deidre Mystery, Book One) By William Baer February 3, 2023
How to Cut a Woman in Half By Janis Harrington November 25, 2022	Wise to the West By Wendy Videlock November 4, 2022	Oxblood By Nicole Caruso Garcia October 7, 2022	New Jersey Noir - Barnegat Light By William Baer September 2, 2022
Terminal Park By Richard Wakefield April 22, 2022	Able Muse, Winter 2021/2022 (No. 29 - print edition) Edited by Alexander Pepple February 2, 2021	Remembering Lethe By Brian Culhane December 17, 2021	Fetch, Muse By Rebecca Starks November 26, 2021

2021 Able Muse Book Award (for poetry manuscripts)

Final Judge: Mark Jarman
$1000 prize plus publication of winning manuscript by Able Muse Press. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
Entry deadline: March 31, 2021

2021 Able Muse Write Prize (for poetry & fiction)

2021 WINNERS:
Amina Gautier: fiction winner;
E. D. Watson: poetry winner.
Read more including finalists, etc. . . .

Say What You Will - Poems
by Len Krisak

Winner, 2020 Able Muse Book Award
". . . enormous erudition, sure, but equally with wit and charm, solemnity and grace, in this exquisite book.."—Ilya Kaminsky

New Jersey Noir: Cape May
A Novel
by William Baer

The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels, Book 2
". . . this is a can’t-put-it-down thrill ride."—Publishers Weekly

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S. Federico

S. Federico draws, writes, and lives in New York City with his cat.

The Red Ear Blows Its Nose: Poems for Children and Others

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ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD, 2022 Results

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2022

Contest Winner Announcement

Final Judge: Rachel Hadas

Able Muse is pleased to announce the winner of the Book Award for a poetry manuscript (judged anonymously throughout by the Able Muse Contest Committee and the final judge, Rachel Hadas.)