Rachel Vogel’s story “Visitors” won the 2019 Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize from American Short Fiction and was published in that magazine […]

It’s an honor to have one’s book in any library, but I was especially honored to learn that The National […]

I have just learned that the Fox Valley Jewish Neighbors Book Group in Geneva, Illinois will be discussing The Usual […]

Molly Antopol visited my Winter 2021 fiction writing workshop. She conducted a 25-minute Q&A with students about her short story, […]

Model Kendall Jenner, who has 142 million Instagram followers, has recommended my short story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, in Life […]

My short story “[It’s pomegranate season, and every evening]” from “Panels” has just been published online in Spanish on Medium. […]

Jaime Goodrich, who has taken five of my workshops, most recently in Fall 2020, has been accepted to the prestigious […]

My short story, “The White Spot,” is going to appear in the forthcoming anthology, Best Peace Fiction, to be published […]

For information on upcoming classes, please visit the Classes page of this website.

I am proud and excited to get a recommendation from #1 NYT-bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, who included The Usual Uncertainties […]

Benjamin Selesnick has just reviewed The Usual Uncertainties for the Jewish Book Council. Check out the review here.

All of my fiction-writing classes are now being taught online. See the Classes page of this website for specifics. Financial […]

My interview with Breanna Chia appears on the Los Angeles-based online literary magazine Angels Flight • literary west.

The PRI show, Selected Shorts, where actors read short stories to an audience, will be coming to the Getty Museum […]

Check the Classes page of this website to find upcoming workshops and other classes that are still open.

I will appear on KCRW’s Bookworm with host Michael Silverblatt on Thursday, January 16 at 1:30 p.m. The show will […]

I have a short nonfiction piece up about my neighborhood on the Poets & Writers website.

Iowa Public Radio has named The Usual Uncertainties one of the best fiction books to give as a gift in […]

The Jewish Book Council blog posted a story from The Usual Uncertainties, along with a short piece I wrote about […]

I will be recording a podcast with Lisa Birnbach at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 23 at 5 […]

Here is an interview with Holiday Reinhorn that appears in the blog section of the Los Angeles Review of Books: […]

Sunday, November 3 Skylight Books Los Angeles, CA 5 p.m. RSVP here Tuesday, November 12 Milkweed Books (with Peter Bognanni) […]

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 […]

This summer I will be teaching three classes.   Two-Month Workshop Sunday, July 14 – Sunday, September 8 5 – […]

According to a recent article called  “15 Top Writing Classes in Los Angeles”  by Katrina Kwan of Writing Tips Oasis, […]

My story collection The Usual Uncertainties will be published by Rescue Press on November 1, 2019.

Click here to see reviews of my fiction writing classes on Yelp.  

In this class, which is called “Starting New Stories,” we are going to explore different approaches for how to start […]

Michelle Latiolais, author of, among other books, the story collection Widow, visited my Spring 2019 Workshop in Pasadena on May 5. […]

This June, I will be teaching two intensive writing classes–a generative weekend fiction-writing class called “Who Is I?” and a […]

On Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Larchmont, I’ll be teaching a one-day fiction writing class called “Starting New Stories.” If […]

My short story, “Boca,” originally published in the literary magazine New York Stories in 2002, has been translated into Mandarin […]

Here are the dates of my Winter and Spring 2019 six-week workshop offerings. Winter 2019 January 20 — February 24, […]

This is a workshop designed for committed fiction writers of any experience level who are seeking support with longer-term projects […]

Listen to me reading my short story, “The White Spot,” on the Kenyon Review website.  

Holiday Reinhorn, who has taken several of my fiction writing workshops, most recently in Winter 2019, has published a short […]

My short story, “The White Spot,” appears in the Sept/Oct 2018 issue of the Kenyon Review. To order a copy, […]

On Saturday, December 1, 2018, I will be hosting a one-day fiction writing class in Pasadena. The subject will be […]

I will be running a six-week fiction writing workshop in Santa Monica from October 5 to November 9. The class […]

I will be running a six-week fiction writing workshop in Pasadena from September 23 to October 28. The workshop will […]

My series of one-page stories, “Panels,” appears on the Los Angeles-based cultural and literary website Angels Flight • literary west. […]

From June 16 to June 22, 2018, I will be teaching two intensive fiction writing classes at the Iowa Summer […]

Last night, Michelle Huneven joined my Winter 2018 fiction writing class to discuss characterization in her short story, “Too Good […]

Brian Tran got into the MFA program in fiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis. He will receive a […]

Rescue Press, which brought out my first book in 2013, has accepted my story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, for publication […]

William Deverell, who was, most recently, in my Spring 2018 workshop, has published his third short story, “Driftwood,” in The […]

My Spring 2018 fiction writing workshop will be held on six consecutive Sundays from April 22 – May 27  at […]

My Winter 2018 fiction writing class will take place on six consecutive Sundays from January 21 – February 25 in Pasadena. […]