Time is running out to enter the Blue Mesa Review Fiction Contest. The deadline is a manuscript that arrives in our mail room with a postmark no later than January 31. If you’re a…
Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine put out twice a year by the creative writing department at the University of New Mexico. We accept submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from all over the country.
We also host a yearly fiction contest. Please send all fiction contest entries to:
Blue Mesa Review
Creative Writing Program
University of New Mexico
MSC03-2170 Humanities 274
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
All submissions for the Fiction contest must be postmarked by December 31, 2009. Do not exceed 7,000 words!
The winner will receive $1,000
send an SASE and a $15 check to UNM-BMR for each story entry.
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Last month we opened our e-mail accounts for electronic submissions of poetry and creative nonfiction. The response has been so good that… well, we’re swamped. If you sent a submission…
Due to a lower than average number of submissions for this year’s fiction contest, we are extending our postmark deadline from December 31st, 2009 to January 31st, 2010. That’s one more month…
What is it that we at Blue Mesa Review want when it comes to fiction? While we are not bound to any particular aesthetic, here are a few ways your story will stand out from the competition:
A…
For a limited time, Blue Mesa is accepting creative non-fiction and poetry submissions electronically. Please send non-fiction to bmrnonfc@unm.edu and poetry to bmrpoetr@unm.edu. We look…
We here at Blue Mesa want to make it easier for you to know “where to send your work.” We asked our creative Nonfiction Editor the following question: “What writing qualities are you adding to…
Bob the poetry intern again, this time with my graphic designer’s hat on. (I got lots more hats, so we’ll see how many I get to wear before issue 23 comes out.) I am filing this under…
If you write creative nonfiction, the following might change your life (or just help increase the amount of work you’ve published):
Of the three genres that the Blue Mesa Review accepts,…
Margaret Atwood and her life partner of 40 years Graeme Gibson read from their latest works at UNM this evening: The Year of The Flood, and The bedside book of beasts. …
Blue Mesa Review wanted to take the time to congratulate Lori Ostlund on the publication of her first collection of short stories, The Bigness of the World, which won the 2008…
