Here is an interview with Holiday Reinhorn that appears in the blog section of the Los Angeles Review of Books: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/psalms-arent-mentioned-theyre-talking-jonathan-blum/
Sunday, November 3 Skylight Books Los Angeles, CA 5 p.m. RSVP here Tuesday, November 12 Milkweed Books (with Peter Bognanni) Minneapolis, MN 7 p.m. RSVP here […]
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jonathan-blum-discusses-his-new-short-story-collection-usual-uncertainties My tour to launch the story collection The Usual Uncertainties will begin on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. at Skylight Books in Los Feliz. Such a […]
According to a recent article called “15 Top Writing Classes in Los Angeles” by Katrina Kwan of Writing Tips Oasis, my fiction-writing workshops are #5 in […]
Michelle Latiolais, author of, among other books, the story collection Widow, visited my Spring 2019 Workshop in Pasadena on May 5. She conducted a Q&A session with […]
This June, I will be teaching two intensive writing classes–a generative weekend fiction-writing class called “Who Is I?” and a week-long short story workshop–at The Iowa […]
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Larchmont, I’ll be teaching a one-day fiction writing class called “Starting New Stories.” If you’ve been stuck recently trying to […]
My short story, “Boca,” originally published in the literary magazine New York Stories in 2002, has been translated into Mandarin by Mia Guo and published in […]
This is a workshop designed for committed fiction writers of any experience level who are seeking support with longer-term projects (story collections, novels, etc.) and the […]
Holiday Reinhorn, who has taken several of my fiction writing workshops, most recently in Winter 2019, has published a short story, “Our Lady of Perpetual Sadness,” […]
On Saturday, December 1, 2018, I will be hosting a one-day fiction writing class in Pasadena. The subject will be how to create fictional characters. You […]
My series of one-page stories, “Panels,” appears on the Los Angeles-based cultural and literary website Angels Flight • literary west. Panels are small oil paintings done […]
Last night, Michelle Huneven joined my Winter 2018 fiction writing class to discuss characterization in her short story, “Too Good To True.” She also took questions […]
Brian Tran got into the MFA program in fiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis. He will receive a fellowship that covers his tuition as […]
William Deverell, who was, most recently, in my Spring 2018 workshop, has published his third short story, “Driftwood,” in The Cost of Paper, Volume 5, an […]
What better way to celebrate L.A.’s one-of-a-kind Bookworm and light than with a party at Hollywood’s Lacha Somtum (which, I am told, means “King of Papaya […]
My Fall 2017 fiction writing workshop takes place on six consecutive Sundays from 5 – 7 p.m. from September 17 through October 22. The workshop will […]
My short story, “Weekly Status Report,” which takes place in the world of competitive Scrabble, can be found in the fall 2016 issue of Sonora Review. […]
My Spring 2017 fiction writing workshop runs for six weeks from Sunday, April 2 through Sunday, May 7. The workshop will take place in Mid-Wilshire. Students […]
For three weeks, starting August 30, 2016, I will be a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai International Writing Program in Tianjin, China’s fourth most populous […]
My Fall 2016 fiction writing workshop runs from Sunday, October 30 – Sunday, December 11. The class meets in Mid-Wilshire. Class size is limited to ten […]
From February 7 – March 13, 2016, I will be teaching a fiction writing workshop in Mid-Wilshire. Class size is limited to ten. Writers of all experience levels […]
From September 27 – November 1, I will be teaching a fiction writing workshop in Mid-Wilshire. Class size is limited to ten. Writers of all experience […]
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