Able Muse is a literary magazine established in 1999 by editor-in-chief Alexander Pepple in San Jose, California.
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, 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.
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.