Able Muse Prize Winners & Featured Poet
Able Muse Winter 2014 features poetry from Scott M. Miller, winner of the 2014 Write Prize for Poetry, as well as by finalists Eric Berlin, Marilyn L. Taylor, and Catherine Chandler. Winning work of the 2014 Write Prize for Fiction, J. Preston Witt, is featured as well.
New to this issue, Able Muse includes a Featured Poet. Wendy Videlock is the inaugural author to receive this honor, having five new poems published within and an interview with David Mason. Videlock shares her perspectives on sound and silence, the use of and movement away from the first-person pronoun, the conscious and the subconscious, and much more on her craft of writing.
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First place: Eva Lomski [pictured], of Melbourne, Australia, wins $1500 for “The Things We Build.” Her story will be published in Issue 96 of Glimmer Train Stories.
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Melissa R. Sipin, winner of the 2013 Glimmer Train Fiction Open, offers a craft essay in the 
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First place: Rowena Macdonald, of London, UK, wins $1500 for “My Brother Is Back.” Her story will be published in Issue 96 of Glimmer Train Stories. [Photo credit: Martin Fuller.]
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