I will be hosting a Six-Week Workshop on Zoom that runs on consecutive Saturdays between May 17 – June 21. […]

My next six-week workshop runs from Saturday, March 29 – Saturday, May 3. The class meets in the Arts District […]

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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez and Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar  

My winter two-month workshop will run every other Saturday between 2 – 5 p.m. in the Arts District of Downtown […]

This fall I am offering a Six-Week Workshop online. The class is open to writers of all experience levels, including […]

Yesterday I unearthed an audio recording of a reading I did at Prairie Lights Books in 2014 as part of […]

“Jonathan Blum’s ‘The Usual Uncertainties’ is a tour de force in the world of contemporary short stories. . .” –The […]

Adrian Villarreal was accepted to UC Riverside’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. This is […]

By popular demand, this summer I will be teaching two advanced-level revision workshops. These will be total-immersion courses that focus […]

Film Courage has posted our full interview from May 2023, called A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Fiction. The interview runs 1:55.

For the first time in three years, I am offering a workshop devoted entirely to revising fiction. The workshop will […]

I’m always happy to see a class sell out. Since being able to teach in-person classes again last year, I […]

During July 2023, Rescue Press is selling copies of my story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, for the discounted price of […]

On May 31, 2023, I recorded a lengthy video interview with Karen Worden of the YouTube channel Film Courage about […]

JULIA LU was admitted to the three-year, fully funded MFA Program in Fiction Writing at UNLV. The acceptance rate at UNLV […]

Holiday Reinhorn and I will be in conversation with Andrew Porter at Skylight Books in Los Feliz to celebrate the […]

I will be teaching a two-month advanced fiction-writing workshop in the Arts District of Downtown L.A., starting on January 14 […]

On this podcast, three editors at 1-Week Critique discuss my short story, “New Pocahontas,” and the collection in which it […]

I am offering a six-week in-person workshop in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. The workshop will run weekly […]

Ingrid Wenzler of 1-Week Critique interviewed me last week about how I revised my story, “A Confession in the Spirit […]

On Instagram, at @stay.home.stories, there is a video recording of me reading two stories: “Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov […]

My short story, “The White Spot,” appears in the anthology, The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology, published by University […]

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. […]

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.