Able Muse 2016 Contest Winners Issue

Able Muse #22 (Winter 2016) features the following winning entries and runners up from their 2016 writing contests. Full shortlists and judges comments can be read here.

Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction
Final Judge Stuart Dybeck
Winner: “Passerthrough” by Victoria Mlyniec
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Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry
Final Judge Patricia Smith
Winner: “Shamrock” by Scott Ruescher
Runner-up: “From the School of Hard Knocks” by Fran Markover
Honorable Mention: “Not” by Colleen Carias

March 15, 2017 is the deadline for the 2017 contest with Judges Annie Finch (poetry) and Jill Alexander Essbaum (fiction).