Staff Writes

Dispatches from the Blue Mesa Review Crew

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Introducing: Nonfiction Editor Candra Lowery

by Candra Lowery

Aug 2, 2025

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Introducing: Poetry Editor Jas Colorado

by Jas Colorado

Aug 2, 2025

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Introducing: Fiction Editor E.C. Gannon

by E.C. Gannon

Aug 2, 2025

A Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief

Jun 4, 2018

By Hayley Peterson

Announcing Our 2018 Summer Contest Judges!

Apr 11, 2018

By BMR Editor

Man Out of the Woods

Mar 28, 2018

By Josh Tise

AWP After-Blog

Mar 22, 2018

By Tori Cárdenas

AWP – Blue Mesa Style

Mar 6, 2018

By BMR Editor

Let the Movida Live

Feb 28, 2018

By Olivia Padilla

On Female Characters

Feb 21, 2018

By Tatiana Duvanova

Gun Problem or Leadership Problem?

Feb 15, 2018

By Steve Howe

Better Not Call? A Curated Tour of Albuquerque’s Attorney Billboards

Jan 17, 2018

By the Staff Readers of Blue Mesa Review

ABQ #MeToo Monologues

Dec 8, 2017

By Lydia Wassan

Announcing our 2017 Pushcart Nominees

Dec 2, 2017

By BMR Editor

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Don’t Speak! …In the First Line

Nov 30, 2017

By Maxine Porter

Winner, Winner, Turkey Dinner!

Nov 22, 2017

By BMR Editor

Are You an American Citizen? Asked on a Highway in the Middle of New Mexico (Which is Actually an American State, If You Didn’t Know)

Nov 8, 2017

By Amanda Bissell

How Not to Write a Novel in a Month

Nov 2, 2017

By Mackenzie Thomas

Move Aside, NYC. The 505 is Your New Short Story City.

Oct 4, 2017

By Alice Yang

Our Best of the Net Nominations. Drum Roll Please…

Sep 29, 2017

By BMR Editor

The Role of a Nonfiction Writer

Jul 28, 2017

By Hayley Peterson

This New Year of Continual Expansion

Jul 18, 2017

By Ruben Rodriguez

On Stepping in as Fiction Editor and Advice to Our Submitters.

Jul 6, 2017

By Tatiana Duvanova

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