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. She will work as a […]

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.

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 […]