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Noah Ashley Blooms

Noah Ashley Blooms

Recipient Information

Location

Lexington, Kentucky

Medium

Literary Arts

Year of Award

2027

Grant or Fellowship

Southern Artist Spotlight Grant

Grant Amount

$0

Noah Ashley Blooms (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary, Appalachian author of Where I Can’t Follow and Every Bone a Prayer. Their work has been nominated for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, Weatherford Award, and Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and they’ve been named a South Arts State Literary Fellow for Kentucky. Their writing has appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, The Oxford American, Reactor, and elsewhere. They received their MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi and are a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop.

Artist Fee: $300 - $10,000
Availability: July: None 
August: High 
September - December: Medium 
January - June 2026: High

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Email Noah Ashley Blooms 
www.ashleyblooms.com
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