[Alex Pepple]

The NEW ISSUE of ABLE MUSE, Print Editon (Number 27) - Winter 2019, has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, & iBooks editions), with online excerpts at: www.AbleMuse.com. The digital and web editions of the complete issue (provided to the print edition subscribers only as a bonus), is also available now online at www.ablemuse.com, along with generous excerpts of the issue for non-subscribers.

With Special Feature: Tribute to Timothy Murphy
(guest-edited by Richard Wakefield)
Featured Art: The Hunt Theme

WITH THE 2019 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY —
Includes the 2019 winning stories & poems from contest winners and finalists.

• editorial: Alexander Pepple • guest editorial: Richard Wakefield • featured art: The Hunt Theme • special feature : Tribute to Timothy Murphy (guest-edited by Richard Wakefield), with tribute poetry from A.E. Stallings, Timothy Steele, Rhina P. Espaillat, John Ridland, Amit Majmudar, Wendy Videlock, Bruce Bennett, Len Krisak, Catherine Chandler, Terese Coe, Mary Meriam, Andrew Frisardi, Richard Meyer, John Beaton; and tribute essay from Dana Gioia • fiction: Erin Russell • essays: Edward Lee, Tony Whedon • book reviews: Brooke Clark, Travis Biddick • poetry: Hailey Leithauser, John Philip Drury, Len Krisak, James Matthew Wilson, Suzanne Noguere, Alfred Nicol, Katie Hartsock, David MacRae Landon, Amy Bagan, Barry Abrams, Miriam O’Neal, Beth Paulson, Daniel Galef.

Read all the details at Able Muse.

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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editor); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editor).

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***2020 ABLE MUSE CONTESTS are now open for submission (WRITE PRIZE & BOOK AWARD)! ***
*** Now, it's only DAYS to go! . . . Enter the 2020 Able Muse Contests NOW!: . . . ***

• ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) - $500 prize each & publication
  Judges: Emily Grosholz - poetry; Hollis Seamon - fiction
  Deadline: March 22, 2020 (Extended 7 days by popular request from previous March 15 deadline!).
  Read the guidelines & ENTER now!
  
  
• ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (Poetry) - $1000 prize, plus book publication
  Judge: Brad Leithauser
  Deadline: March 31, 2020
  Read the guidelines and ENTER now!

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