art by Gay Degani
Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written for The New Yorker, Salon, Black Clock, The Arabesques Review, The Baltimore Sun, Horizon Magazine, and other publications. His translation of Albert Camus’ Notebooks 1951-1959 (Rowman and Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American and Florence Gould Foundation’s excellence in translation award. In 2013, he received a summer residency at The Corporation of Yaddo, and was selected to return in 2014 as the Eli Cantor Residency for Writers’ fellow.
The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.