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...
Dear New York Publishers, Out here in the West, we continue to consume short stories set in New York, chronicling the melodrama of humanity against the all too familiar backdrop of skyscrapers, subways, and large bodies of water. Sure, New York is the quintessential...
