We are excited to announce the 2016 Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest judges! Send us your best work in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Our Poetry judge is Ocean Vuong! Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. I took an excellent workshop with Tom Barbash on examining the intricacies of craft in fiction. We poured over short stories and chapters of novels… Continue Reading
Forever a sexy profession, writers are not always the sexiest people. This trend is well documented. While you can’t judge a book by its author’s photo, you can certainly judge its author. Look, who wants to read a book written… Continue Reading
It’s June 1st and that means our 2015 Summer Contest is now open for submissions! We are really excited for this year’s contest because for the first time we’re including nonfiction. You have until August 31st to get your best… Continue Reading
We are excited to announce the 2015 Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest judges! Also, we are adding Nonfiction to the contest this year! Get those poems, stories, and essays ready summer contest seekers, because we want to publish you! And… Continue Reading
This post is the first part in a series aimed at helping readers to more effectively identify books they will enjoy—that is, to invest their reading time wisely, and to reap all of the dividends accruing therefrom. I decided… Continue Reading
I’m a writer. I was a writer. I will be a writer; I’m going to write again. I find myself saying some version of these sentences pretty often, especially because working on Blue Mesa Review means being surrounded by creative… Continue Reading
“What magazines do you read?” one professor asked a group of us in my first year as an MFA student. People spoke up quickly. The New Yorker. The Atlantic. The New York Times Magazine. Harper’s. A smattering of literary journals.… Continue Reading
Blue Mesa Review: What book or books made you realize you wanted to write? Justin St. Germain: I don’t think I ever had a specific moment in which I realized I wanted to write. As a kid, I read a lot of… Continue Reading
Seeking original artwork of all styles (photography, digital artwork, images of drawings, paintings and sculpture) for publication in Blue Mesa Review Issue 27. Blue Mesa Review is the literary journal of UNM’s Creative Writing MFA program, publishing internationally emerging and… Continue Reading