''Able Muse'' is a
literary magazine
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established in 1999 by
editor-in-chief
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Alexander Pepple in
San Jose, California
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. It started as an online publication, publishing poems, short stories, essays, book reviews, art, and photography from authors worldwide. It includes the sister organizations of
Eratosphere
Eratosphere is a free-to-join workshop for formal poetry. Additionally, it is a forum for free verse, for poetry and prose translation, fiction, art, literary criticism, and critical discussions on writing. It was founded in 1999 by Alexander Pep ...
, an online workshop forum for poetry, fiction and art; and Able Muse Press, a small press that publishes poetry and fiction collections by established and emerging authors.
History
The magazine transitioned into a print publication with the tenth issue, the Winter 2010 Inaugural Print Edition, accompanied with the publication of the ''Able Muse Anthology'', edited by Pepple with a foreword by
Timothy Steele
Timothy Steele (born January 22, 1948) is an American poet, who generally writes in meter and rhyme. His early poems, which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as ''Poetry, The Southern Review'', and X. J. Kennedy's ''Counter/Measures' ...
. The magazine still maintains its online presence where it simultaneously releases a digital edition that mirrors the corresponding issue of the print edition. ''Able Muse'' has been edited, since its inception by Alexander Pepple.
Awards
The magazine hosts a series of annual awards designed to bring recognition to emerging poets and writers or enhance the prestige of established authors. Poets compete, with a handful of their best poems, in the Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry, and writers compete with a couple of their best flash fiction pieces in the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction.
Able Muse Press
Able Muse Press is a sister organization of ''Able Muse'', founded in 2010 by Alexander Pepple, who is also the press' editor and publisher.
This was at about the same time the print edition of ''Able Muse'' was launched.
See also
*
List of literary magazines
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
External links
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Listing at ''Poets & Writers''
Literary magazines published in the United States
Biannual magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1999
Magazines published in California
Mass media in San Jose, California
1999 establishments in California
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