For me, a typical writing day looks like this: two hours of generative writing, an hour of revision, and an hour or so of reading. To wrap up a session, I save all the poems in their various stages to… Continue Reading
There are probably as many reasons for writing as there are writers. For some of us, the events of our lives, whether tragic or blessed, or both, demand to be told. For others, our experience of nature, or the texture… Continue Reading
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
Let’s face it; if you’re reading the BMR blog, odds are you are a person with a literary bent. A writer. An editor. Someone who reads obscure, thought-provoking literature. Unless you are here by mistake, in which… Continue Reading
Sorry for the radio silence. The BMR crew all went into hibernation over the holiday, which really isn’t what you might think. We were reading, writing, planning, and resting up for a new semester which is now in full swing.… Continue Reading
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
In their desperate attempts to make life meaningful, these women bring about their own demise. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Why reread it: Flaubert’s gorgeous prose will teach you something Madame Bovary is code for a woman behaving badly. She spends… Continue Reading
Drum Roll Please….here are the winners of the 2015 Summer Writing Contest! FICTION WINNERS, judged by Antonya Nelson: First Place: “What We Are Doesn’t Have a Name Yet” by Ellen Scheuermann Antonya said: “This piece admirably introduces and marries two… 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