January 2010
2 posts
Tick, tick, tick… →
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…
E-Submissions Have Ended →
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…
December 2009
3 posts
Fiction Contest Deadline Extended! →
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…
We want your fiction! →
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…
Now Collecting Creative Nonfiction and Poetry via... →
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…
November 2009
10 posts
A Message from Nari Kirk, Creative Nonfiction... →
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…
Kill the Courier, Please →
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…
Give us your Creative Nonfiction! →
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 Gives Great Love/Life Advice →
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. …
BMR Congratulates Issue 19 Contributor Lori... →
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…
Creative Writing Panel in Santa Fe →
Last Sunday, 3 BMR editors (Samantha Tetangco- Editor, Melanie Unruh-Fiction Editor, and Suzanne Richardson-Managing Editor) took a trip to Santa Fe’s Collected Works Bookstore to talk to a…
BMR Issue 22 Release Party Follow-Up →
Hello All our BMR Issue 22 Release party was a blast!
We had a great time reading from issue 22, and with Sam as our MC we were able to inform our fans of some great BMR…
A Conversation with Steven Ramirez
Your short story, “The End of the Mayan Calendar,” which was the Blue Mesa Review 2009 Fiction Contest winner, is a blend of history and myths, as well as a tale of the struggles of modern society. Can you tell us a little about how you conceived of a story with such a wide, and ultimately successful, scope?
I broke my own rule when writing this story. Usually, upon sitting before the blank...
BMR Myth Busters!
Hello folks, your friendly neighborhood poetry intern here. I wanted to take the opportunity to put on my “myth-buster” cap and clear up some of the misconceptions, put to bed some of the rumors that have been floating around about Blue Mesa Review. So here we go:
1: “I didn’t know BMR was still around.” If this were the case, I wouldn’t be posting this, and this blog wouldn’t even exist. We do...
October 2009
0 posts
Blue Mesa Review Issue 22 Release Party! October... →
September 2009
5 posts
BMR Fiction Contest Comes Early This Year →
Some of you may recall that in past years the Blue Mesa Review fiction contest deadline was in the spring. This year, we’ve moved our schedule around and all contest submissions need to be…
BMR Will Flip Out Again…Over Innovation! →
Let me say this first: Please Excuse the terrible pun in the Subject line.
Now, an AWP story:
At last year’s AWP conference, the Blue Mesa Review sold out of Issue 20/21. This magazine was, by…
We are back up! →
Good afternoon!
Our official website is back up and running! We will be going through a few changes along the way, but please visit the BMR official website for all things BMR related! We…
Our official website is down, but let the... →
We are currently having technical difficulties with our official website, it should be up and running by the end of this week!
In the meantime…
We are ready for your submissions! …
August 2009
2 posts
Blue Mesa Review Issue 22, Spring 2009 →
We’re so proud
Hi Everyone!
We are so excited about this issue! We have some wonderful writers who are published in this issue including our fiction prize winner Steven Ramirez,
Blue Mesa Review Issue 22 Spring 2009
Issue 22 of BMR is in! We are incredibly excited about this issue, and we hope our readers enjoy it as much as we do!