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Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
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Writer. Person. Woman. Mother. Partner. Friend. https://linktr.ee/loriyeg
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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...
Developmental Editing Fellowship
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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brechtdp.bsky.social
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
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literaryartsfund.bsky.social
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.
Literary Arts Fund logo
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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pw.org
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
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oregonian.com
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...
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
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.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This Is Fascism
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
#WarRavagedPortland
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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oregonian.com
“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.”

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October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
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Meditations in an Emergency By Cameron Awkward-Rich I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
loriyeg.bsky.social
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social !
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
loriyeg.bsky.social
Thank you @expositionreview.bsky.social ! You all are the best.
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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expositionreview.bsky.social
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
loriyeg.bsky.social
Returning to the library this week so others can enjoy the splendor that is @writesloud.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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cwtellstales.bsky.social
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...
Mural of a black woman holding a copy of Octavia Butler's "Kindred." Mural by Ashley Cathey. Photo credit: Don Sniegowski
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
"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...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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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.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
loriyeg.bsky.social
Thank you @armenianliterary.org !
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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E. Jean Carroll is a hero.
September 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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oregonian.com
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, thousands of Portlanders were forced out of the neighborhood due to development projects.
Newly opened Albina development aims to create a path for some former neighborhood residents to return
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, thousands of Portlanders were forced out of the neighborhood due to development projects.
www.oregonlive.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
loriyeg.bsky.social
I kust stumbled on this finalist list and saw that my creative nonfiction piece “The Emperor’s Dentist” is on it. Thanks Sundress Press and Atlas and Alice bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...
2025 Finalists – Best of the Net
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August 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
loriyeg.bsky.social
I guess Portland is cool again, according to the NY Times:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
36 Hours in Portland, Oregon: Things to Do and See
There’s depth beyond Portland’s quirkiness, including one of the country’s finest dining scenes.
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM