A View of the Mesa
View-Mesa.com
A Social Publication for the Residents and Guests of the Surface Creek and surrounding areas.
Cedaredge, Delta, Hotchkiss, Montrose, Grand Junction
Welcome to the NEW Digital version of our magazine! Same great content as in our printed issues, and more! Check back weekly for added stories.
Click on the magazine cover, select full screen in right corner. Hit escape to go back to this page when done reading
Our on-line version is now available to view FREE and offered to many locations on the Western Slope. These include Cedaredge, Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Montrose, Olathe and more! For advertising opportunities, please contact me, Patricia Stirnkorb, at pat@writewordsmedia.com
If you missed any of these photos you probably missed a story! Check our previous issue gallery. (Coming Soon)
Our Story
In January 2025, a group of 6-8 local writers got together to collaborate about our passion for writing and to learn from one another. I have been a writer and editor forever and also a teacher for just about as long as I can remember. Our first lesson was about Organizing Our Thoughts and how to begin. Several of the students were accomplished writers and some were first timers, but we all shared one thing: Our desire to write.
We dubbed ourselves the Cedaredge Writers Collaborative and set a schedule to meet every two weeks at the New Hope EV Free Church on Surface Creek Road.
It wasn't long until I realized these people had real talent! But what were they doing with their stories, poems, articles and interviews? Mostly they were just like the photos we keep in our phones--they stayed there. But these were great words and definitely worth sharing. Around March or April, I got the idea of doing a local magazine. In full disclosure, I had published a magazine in Cincinnati, so I knew the ins and outs of what to do and how much work it would take to do it again. (Gulp!) But with a lot of help from all of us together, we plunged forward.
In July we published our first quarterly issue of A View of the Mesa with 28 pages and lots of reading material. Stories, interviews, poems, kids short stories--No News--just entertainment. We published 2500 copies, distributed them by hand to Cedaredge, Eckert and the surrounding areas. In October, our second issue was just in time for Applefest and we decided to go bigger with 36 pages and 4000 copies!
In January we settled in at 36 pages and 2500 copies, which seems to be the "sweet" spot for our distribution capabilities.
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We learned a few things along the way. 1. There are always typos. 2. It will never be perfect.
3. Everyone has a story to tell, and we have the natural curiosity to learn about that story and to gladly share it.
Which brings us to today-March of 2026. Most of writers have hung in there; we have some new ones and others that are "guest" columnists. We have a platform that allows writers to share their creativity and their passions.
We continue to have twice monthly classes (just completing 24 of them!) and we always learn from one another.
Now we are going digital! The purpose and the plan is that our words will no longer just be limited to the 2500 copies but now will be available to our friends and family members that are scattered around the world!
It will also provide a way for our advertisers, who we could not continue on without, to get their services to more households and perhaps benefit them even more as well. A win-win for all of us.
If you have the notion to be a writer, or just a dedicated reader, please join us as we grow our fledgling publication. Please support our advertisers and if by any chance, you would like to put your business on our pages or on this website, contact me and I assure you, we can make it happen! Thanks for reading our words! We appreciate you!
Want to meet our writers? Click here.
Coming Soon!
What's makes a great community? Why, resident involvement of course! This includes our fire, police, EMT's, librarians, and more! Our next issue will introduce you to some of these extraordinary folks!
Bet you didn't know that the Rock Shop founder actually discovered a unique rock when out hunting with his wife. Named by them, this one of a kind find is both usefull and beautiful! Read the whole story!
School Bus Drivers Wanted! You won't want to miss this delightful and heartfelt narrative written by a Cedaredge school bus driver.
A View of the Mesa is a publication of
Write Words Media, LLC
and the Cedaredge Writers Collaborative
Cedaredge, CO 81413
Contact Us
pat@writewordsmedia.com
Tel. 513-910-0510
© 2026 Write Words Media
DISCLAIMER; Any article published in this magazine, print or online version, is the opinion of the writer and is not necessarily the view of the CWC or WWM. We do not endorse or recommend any of the paid advertisers and therefor are not responsible for their business practice or code of conduct. When community events take place photographers may be present to take photos for that event and they may be used in this publication without additional permission.
