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Ryan Bloom

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.

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Notes as Guest Reader/Editor in Smokelong Quarterly

Notes: The Moon is a Wasteland

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We’re doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writing task each day, peer review in small groups, 3 webinars, a reading and interview with Michelle Ross and the editors of 100 Word Story, and 3 competitions with cash prizes.