Congratulations to these wonderful writers: From Issue 35: Nonfiction –vibe [Fragments from a Notebook] by Marcos Gonsalez From our upcoming Issue 36: Poetry egungun by Aurielle Lucier Fiction Around the Parking Lot by David Connor Nonfiction On Playing Yu-Gi-Oh as a...
As a Blue Mesa Review reader, I evaluate a lot of fiction for the magazine. I see the same mistakes made over and over again. One of the most persistent, and most unfortunate, is the use of dialogue in the first line. So maybe you write a first line that looks...
We are giving thanks this holiday season for all those who make Blue Mesa Review possible; our readers, contributors, contest judges, our host university, and the literary community. And we want to offer a special thanks and congratulations to our annual contest...
Ok, so my dad is pretty white. When I was younger, he, my mom, my two sisters and I would pile into our cramped car for a family road trip. Coming from my hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, 45 miles north of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, this meant going through a border...
In honor of NaNoWriMo, I have decided to gift you, dear readers, the key to my success. At the very young age of 20, I have not written four best-selling novels, not gotten 20 short stories published in various respectable journals and magazines, and I have not had a...
