New World Writing (formerly Blip Magazine) is the reinvention of Mississippi Review Online, a personal website put online in 1995 by the editor of Mississippi Review, Frederick Barthelme.
It is the online heir of Mississippi Review (established by Barthelme in 1977).
Notable contributors (since 2010) include George Saunders,[4] Marcy Demansky, Jurgen Fauth,[5] Woody Evans,[6] Meg Pokrass, Mary Grimm, Floyd Skloot, and others.
In its previous incarnation, Blip had over 1000 stories and poems in its archive, including work by such writers as Thom Jones, Ben Marcus, Francine Prose, Padgett Powell, Barry Hannah,[7] Tom Drury, Curtis Sittenfeld, Tao Lin, John Barth, Christine Schutt, Mary Gaitskill, Rick Bass,[8] and Ben Neihart.
In late 2012 a post at blipmagazine.net announced a name change: BlipMagazine was now New World Writing:[9] BlipMagazine has changed its name to New World Writing after the great literary magazine of the 1950s.