On November 1, 2013, I committed myself to what felt like the Herculean task of writing 50,000 words in one month. Thirty days later, at 9:30 PM, I penned the last of those while sitting in the backseat of our… Continue Reading
The allure of memoir is that it’s part voyeurism and part cheerleader. The reader is fascinated with the writer’s journey through the seemingly un-navigable; trusting, of course, that the events of the memoir are related fairly and accurately along the… Continue Reading
If there is any truth to the stereotype of MFA program snobbery, I may be ostracized from mine for admitting this, but here it goes. I did not come to writing from a love of books. There, I said it.… Continue Reading
I won my first poetry slam in January of 2011. I was sixteen and for the next three days I felt like a warrior princess. I was a champion of words, and for the first time ever high school couldn’t… Continue Reading
I begin my last year as an MFA student at The University of New Mexico in about two weeks. At the start I came into it with an open mind as to what I would write about for the… Continue Reading
I was very excited when the opportunity to interview Suzanne Richardson presented itself. Suzanne grew up in Durham, North Carolina. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Utica College in New York. Suzanne also served as Editor-in-Chief of… Continue Reading
Christina Glessner is a 2nd year MFA student at the University of New Mexico, concentrating in fiction. She is Managing Editor elect for Blue Mesa Review. On April 11, 2013, I had the pleasure of watching Dan Mueller and Charles… Continue Reading
The staff at Blue Mesa Review would like to extend a warm congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Lena Todd Awards for Excellence in Creative Writing, sponsored by UNM’s Creative Writing program! In poetry, Reina Archuleta received first place… Continue Reading
On Wednesday November 14th, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., much lauded author Sherman Alexie returns to Albuquerque for a reading at UNM’s Woodward Hall in promotion of his new book, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories. The reading is FREE and open to… Continue Reading
UNM’s MFA in Creative Writing and Blue Mesa Review Present: Works in Progress featuring, the talented Michelle Brooks, Faculty Reader Nick DePascal, Poetry Jill Dehnert, Fiction Ben Dolan, Creative Nonfiction Friday, October 5th at 7:00 p.m. Winnings Coffee Co. 111 Harvard… Continue Reading