blue mesa review wants YOUR submissions! make cool fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or visual art? we want to see it! submissions open july 1st! submit at bmr.unm.edu or find us on submittable ✨

blue mesa review is now OPEN for submissions!! we want your fiction, your poetry, your visual art, your creative nonfiction…. whatever you create, send it our way!! submit at bmr.unm.edu (link in bio) or find us on submittable! 💥

We are now open for submissions for our Spring 2025 contest issue. If you tried to submit in December and ran into some issues, the process should now be seamless and beautiful and we encourage you to try again! First-place winners in each genre win $500! bluemesareview.submittable.c…

Missed us? We’ve been busy designing our new website and most recent contest issue. Both are out now! We are so endlessly grateful for the hard work of our web design team, editors, artists, and writers. Please go checkout our new website & Issue 49 here: bmr.unm.edu/issue/49/

Did you miss the original deadline for our 2024 Spring Contest? Don’t worry, we’ve extended the deadline to March 6th! Submit to us via Submittable here: bluemesareview.submittable.c…

…and the results are in!!! Thank you to everyone who participated in our erasure poetry series at AWP! Amy Fish is our first place winner, while Tiffany T. Cole and Kate Miller are runner-ups ✨🎉💙

…and it’s a wrap on #awp ! Thank you so so much to everyone who came by our booth and made erasure poems, talked to us, or just listened to us ramble. We really appreciate you! We genuinely had the most wonderful time in Kansas City, Missouri. We hope you all had a blast, too 💕

We’re having such a blast at AWP, we’ve decided to make all submissions free for the rest of the weekend!! Submit to us via submittable here: bluemesareview.submittable.c…

“Latrina’s Little Sister” is a spectacular short essay that’ll shatter your heart and make you want to reread it immediately. We published it last fall in issue 48. Check out more amazing reads here: bmr.unm.edu/issues/

New blogpost!! A Series of Unfortunate Events: Gothic Hits, written by Alexandra Dark, is available to read now: bmr.unm.edu/a-series-of-unfo…

Miss our weekend special?! No worries, we’ve decided to lower the submission costs to $12 for the rest of our Spring 2024 Contest submission cycle! Happy submitting 💖🎊

Did you catch the contest ad in our last issue? We’re looking for your best work in any genre, and we’re lowering submissions to $12 tomorrow for the entire weekend!! Submit to us via submittable ♥️

We pay all artists / writers that we publish! We pay $25 for visual artists and $500 for top prize in each genre (poetry, fiction, CNF) during our spring contest, which is open now!! Submit here: bluemesareview.submittable.c…

Another gorgeous work from our last issue! This piece is magical and fills me with warmth. We’re looking to publish more pieces like this in our spring contest, which is open now! Checkout even more from our last issue / submit here: bmr.unm.edu

Don’t forget to submit to our Spring 2024 contest while it’s still open!!! We’re looking for your best work in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Submit to us via submittable here: bluemesareview.submittable.c…

What’s that shape swimming in the Rio Grande? A mermaid?! “Un Día con Juanito” by @claudiaexcaret_ helps us spot “Mermaids of Albuquerque” by @hypotheticalmoi 🧜‍♀️💙 Both pieces are from our Fall 2023 Issue, which came out last month and is available here: issuu.com/bluemesareview/doc…