Blue Earth Review

07/15/2025

Submit to our summer contest by August 22! Prizes are $500 per genre. More details on our website

05/16/2025

Our spring issue is almost here, but we have one more Contributor Feature for our fall issue! This is Jaime Gill, writer of the flash fiction piece “The Day of Impossible Things,” featured in Issue 33.

Jaime is a q***r, British-born writer, published in Litro, The Phare, Good Life Review, and others. He won 2024’s Honeybee Literature Prize for Best Short Story and Berlin Review’s Best Flash Fiction, and was a finalist for awards including the Bridport Prize and Bath Short Story Award. www.jaimegill.com.

05/13/2025

Our Dog Daze Summer Contest is now LIVE!! Submit your flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and poetry for a chance to receive $500. Winners are also announced on our social media pages and featured in our fall issue. The contest is open until August 21. Use the link in our bio for more information on submission requirements (and to send us your work…what are you waiting for?).

10/19/2024

We’re all set up at the Twin Cities Book Festival and ready to tell you about Blue Earth Review from 10am-5pm today! Come see us at table 405 and grab a free copy of our magazine!

10/17/2024

Find Blue Earth Review at the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday from 10am-5pm (table #405)! Meet some of our editors and grab a free copy of our magazine 📚 Hope to see you there!

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08/06/2024

There are only two weeks left to submit to the Dog Daze Summer Contest! For this contest, we accept flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Send in your pieces now!

Blue Earth Review is Minnesota State University, Mankato’s graduate-run literary magazine. Before being wholly revamped and renamed in 2003, BER was published under such titles as Medicine Jug, The Muse, and Minnesota River Review. Our contributors have included folks such as Steve Almond, Nicelle...

05/01/2024

In case you missed you, our Dog Daze Summer Contest is now LIVE!! Submit your flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and poetry for a chance to receive $500. Winners are also announced on our social media pages and featured in our fall issue. The contest is open until August 15. What are you waiting for? https://blueearthreview.submittable.com/submit

Blue Earth Review is Minnesota State University, Mankato’s graduate-run literary magazine. Before being wholly revamped and renamed in 2003, BER was published under such titles as Medicine Jug, The Muse, and Minnesota River Review. Our contributors have included folks such as Steve Almond, Nicelle...

04/15/2024

Get ready! Our summer contest is starting soon. Submit your flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, or poetry for a fee of $5 with the chance of snapping up our contest prize of $500. Winners and runner ups will be published in our Fall 2024 issue as well as announced on our social media platforms.

For more information, check out our website!

02/08/2024

Come see us in booth 934!!! We’re handing out free postcards, stickers, and issues 📚

02/06/2024

Come see us at AWP! We’d love to answer questions about submitting, chat about our content, or simply hand off a free copy to you to enjoy. We’ll see you there!!

01/13/2024

Our MN BIPOC Emerging Writer Award is still accepting submissions until January 31. Sends us your words!!