Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
@loriyeg.bsky.social
Writer. Person. Woman. Mother. Partner. Friend. https://linktr.ee/loriyeg
I realized today that I've spent about 8 years working on one 4,000-word essay. Every rejection, every rewrite has brought it closer to what it wants to be. Keep going.
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I realized today that I've spent about 8 years working on one 4,000-word essay. Every rejection, every rewrite has brought it closer to what it wants to be. Keep going.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
I think about this all the time and find it hilariously accurate. Thanks @gabino.bsky.social!
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I think about this all the time and find it hilariously accurate. Thanks @gabino.bsky.social!
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We are accepting applications for our four-month long Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers. The Fellowship involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor on the KR team. Find application guidelines and previous fellows at the link:
kenyonreview.org/fellowship/d...
kenyonreview.org/fellowship/d...
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We are accepting applications for our four-month long Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers. The Fellowship involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor on the KR team. Find application guidelines and previous fellows at the link:
kenyonreview.org/fellowship/d...
kenyonreview.org/fellowship/d...
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
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Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor overcame challenges to steer the organization through a successful capital campaign, raising over $22 million at a time when the arts need it most. “We need literature to have a seat at the table in our civic lives.” More: at.pw.org/LitArtsInPortland
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor overcame challenges to steer the organization through a successful capital campaign, raising over $22 million at a time when the arts need it most. “We need literature to have a seat at the table in our civic lives.” More: at.pw.org/LitArtsInPortland
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Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀
Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀
Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
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“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social !
Congrats to #ExpoContributor @loriyeg.bsky.social on winning the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s 2024 Creative Writing Grant: armenianliterary.org/creative-wri..., AND for being selected as a finalist for @sundresspub.bsky.social’s Best of the Net for nonfiction!
Meet IALA's 2024 Creative Writing Grant Recipient and Runner Up - International Armenian Literary Alliance
Meet Lori Yeghiayan Friedman and Sarah Elgatian, the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s 2024 Creative Writing Grant recipient and runner up!
armenianliterary.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social !
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social ! You all are the best.
Celebrate @loriyeg.bsky.social & read her piece THE EMPEROR’S DENTIST in Atlas and Alice: atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/n.... Then read HOW TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE in #ExpoReveiw: tinyurl.com/ExpoHow & listen to her #Transposition podcast BEFORE IT’S LOST: EXCAVATING HISTORY: tinyurl.com/ExpoTranspo
Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he he…
atlasandalice.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social ! You all are the best.
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Celebrate @loriyeg.bsky.social & read her piece THE EMPEROR’S DENTIST in Atlas and Alice: atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/n.... Then read HOW TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE in #ExpoReveiw: tinyurl.com/ExpoHow & listen to her #Transposition podcast BEFORE IT’S LOST: EXCAVATING HISTORY: tinyurl.com/ExpoTranspo
Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he he…
atlasandalice.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Celebrate @loriyeg.bsky.social & read her piece THE EMPEROR’S DENTIST in Atlas and Alice: atlasandalice.com/2024/04/18/n.... Then read HOW TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE in #ExpoReveiw: tinyurl.com/ExpoHow & listen to her #Transposition podcast BEFORE IT’S LOST: EXCAVATING HISTORY: tinyurl.com/ExpoTranspo
Returning to the library this week so others can enjoy the splendor that is @writesloud.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Returning to the library this week so others can enjoy the splendor that is @writesloud.bsky.social
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My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out.
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out.
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
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"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Aimee Bender - SmokeLong Quarterly
You have three threads woven together here—the story of your father, of the taxed sump pump, and of Joni Mitchell making music—and it’s all seamless and brilliant. Are you on the lookout for events li...
www.smokelong.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
Thank you @armenianliterary.org !
Congratulations to IALA 2024 Creative Writing Grant recipient and mentee @loriyeg.bsky.social for being named a 2025 Best of the Net Finalist for her creative nonfiction piece, "The Emperor's Dentist." 🦷
📖 Read it here: bit.ly/41NBSqi
📖 Read it here: bit.ly/41NBSqi
Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he he…
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thank you @armenianliterary.org !