[Alex Pepple]

The NEW ISSUE of ABLE MUSE, Print Editon (Number 20) - Winter 2015, 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 THE 2015 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY —
Includes the 2015 winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.

editorial: Alexander Pepple • featured artist: Léon Leijdekkers • featured poet: Amit Majmudar (interviewed by Daniel Brown) • fiction: Paul Soto, Lynda Sexson, Andrea Witzke Slot • essays: N.S. Thompson, Moira Egan • book reviews: Stephen Kampa, Robert B. Shaw • poetry: X.J. Kennedy, Wendy Videlock, Kim Bridgford, Peter Kline, Catharine Savage Brosman, Terese Coe, Steven Winn, Jay Udall, Beth Houston, Jennifer Reeser, Leslie Schultz, Ryan Wilson, Max Gutmann, Freeman Rogers, Dan Campion, Brooke Clark, David Stephenson, Autumn Newman, James Matthew Wilson, Athar C. Pavis, Jeanne Wagner, Elise Hempel.

Read all the details at Able Muse.

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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Stephen Kampa, Callie Siskel, Richard Meyer (Assistant Poetry Editors), Gregory Dowling (Nonfiction Editor), Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor), Jonathan Danielson, Janice D. Soderling, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).

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***2016 ABLE MUSE CONTESTS are now open for submission (WRITE PRIZE & BOOK AWARD)! ***

• ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) - $500 prize each & publication
  Judges: Patricia Smith - poetry; Stuart Dybek - fiction
  Deadline: March 15, 2016
  Read the guidelines & ENTER now!
  
  
• ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (Poetry) - $1000 prize, plus book publication
  Judge: A.E. Stallings
  Deadline: March 31, 2016
  Read the guidelines and ENTER now!

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PUSHCART 2016 NOMINATIONS:
Congratulations to the authors of the four poems and two stories nominated -- announcement and full list here.

[Julie Steiner]

Two particular highlights for me, as someone who was lucky enough to preview the issue:

Daniel Brown's interview with Amit Majmudar touches on several topics of keen interest to folks around here, judging by some impassioned General Talk conversations on philosophy and theology over the past few years. I found Amit's perspective fascinating.

I also deeply enjoyed reading Stephen Kampa's review, which is just the right mixture of wit and wisdom to float my boat.