The AHWA's official fiction magazine Midnight Echo has reached issue 5, released Feb 2011. This 120-page feast of horror has been edited by AHWA President, Leigh Blackmore.

Midnight Echo 5 is jam-packed with dark fiction, poetry and art. It includes the winners of the AHWA's 2010 Short Story competition and Flash Fiction Competition (stories by Christopher Green and Jason Fischer), with brand new stories by Terry Dowling,  Chandler Kaiden, E. Albert Banstrom, Blair Kelly, Bryce J. Stevens, Mollie Burleson, Christopher Sequeira, Aaron Polson, Felicity Dowker, Rick Kennett, Juliet Bathory, George Ivanoff, Damien Giles, Robert Mammone and John Goodrich.

The issue includes horrific and weird verse by such poets as Kyla Ward, Richard L. Tierney, Fred Phillips, Charles Lovecraft, Michael Fantina, Rosa Christian, Ann K. Schwader, Phillip A. Ellis, Margi Curtis, Joyce Frohn, Mike Berger, Guy Belleranti,  Adrienne J. Odasso, John Grey, Ron T. Wilkins and Terrie Leigh Relf. 

Dark art by international artists include works by Carl Schaller, Martin Blanco (cover), Shane Ryan, Gaston Locanto, Wayne Palesado, and Tony Karnes.

As an added bonus, this issue features an eight-page graphic story by Mark Farrugia and Greg Chapman.