Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
@loriyeg.bsky.social
Writer. Person. Woman. Mother. Partner. Friend. https://linktr.ee/loriyeg
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"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake." —Jean Rhys
August 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake." —Jean Rhys
My mother was a refugee from Palestine. What does it mean to be the daughter of a refugee? I try to explain in this piece “My Mother, the Refugee” published in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social earlier this month. The image is of Jaffa, the city she was born in. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/c...
Creative Nonfiction: My Mother the Refugee by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
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August 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
My mother was a refugee from Palestine. What does it mean to be the daughter of a refugee? I try to explain in this piece “My Mother, the Refugee” published in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social earlier this month. The image is of Jaffa, the city she was born in. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/c...
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NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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August 8, 2026 at 1:53 PM
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Creative Nonfiction: My Mother the Refugee by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
Creative Nonfiction: My Mother the Refugee by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
August 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Creative Nonfiction: My Mother the Refugee by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
She told me, more than once, that she wanted me to grow up in one place, to make friends I’d keep forever, to know what home felt like.
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"I don’t speak the language of my parents, grandparents, and ancestors. But, it’s still a part of me."
From "A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying," a new essay by @loriyeg.bsky.social.
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From "A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying," a new essay by @loriyeg.bsky.social.
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August 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
"I don’t speak the language of my parents, grandparents, and ancestors. But, it’s still a part of me."
From "A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying," a new essay by @loriyeg.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/tFJ5gmW
From "A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying," a new essay by @loriyeg.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/tFJ5gmW
Consider submitting. They’re lovely.
August Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
August Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
August 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Consider submitting. They’re lovely.
Stoked to have an essay in The Rumpus on the impacts of being the generation to lose your family’s native language. Thank @therumpus.net and @roxanegay.bsky.social
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July 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Stoked to have an essay in The Rumpus on the impacts of being the generation to lose your family’s native language. Thank @therumpus.net and @roxanegay.bsky.social
therumpus.net/2026/07/31/a...
therumpus.net/2026/07/31/a...
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Meet @loriyeg.bsky.social, IALA mentee turned mentor and recipient of the 2024 IALA Creative Writing Grant! In addition to the incredible work Lori has done, she has several exciting publications on the horizon (mentioned in her bio).
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July 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Meet @loriyeg.bsky.social, IALA mentee turned mentor and recipient of the 2024 IALA Creative Writing Grant! In addition to the incredible work Lori has done, she has several exciting publications on the horizon (mentioned in her bio).
🌟 Follow Lori to stay up to date on her work!
🌟 Follow Lori to stay up to date on her work!
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Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
Trump's team says 'no children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases
Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
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July 18, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
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Send us your beautiful, wild, weird animals.
Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by July 15th. All categories are open, but some have limited entries.
Open now! Submit to JMWW by July 15th. All categories are open, but some have limited entries.
Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by July 15th. All categories are open, but some have limited entries.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
July 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Send us your beautiful, wild, weird animals.
"There's Something I Was Going To Do, And Then I Forgot: A Memoir."
July 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
"There's Something I Was Going To Do, And Then I Forgot: A Memoir."
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Check out IALA member Nyree Abrahamian's latest two poems published in The Seventh Wave, "When to Eat a Persimmon" and "Catching up after Pashinyan announces the removal of Ararat from Armenia’s entry stamp." 🇦🇲
Read here: bit.ly/4akaVi2
Read here: bit.ly/4akaVi2
When to Eat a Persimmon • Catching up - Seventh Wave
Earth pocked by shrapnel / and fallen fruit. Heavy trees, intent / on still giving.
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June 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Check out IALA member Nyree Abrahamian's latest two poems published in The Seventh Wave, "When to Eat a Persimmon" and "Catching up after Pashinyan announces the removal of Ararat from Armenia’s entry stamp." 🇦🇲
Read here: bit.ly/4akaVi2
Read here: bit.ly/4akaVi2
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This Is a Hard Time to Start a Career. These Two Words Can Help.
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June 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.
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June 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
May 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
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The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.
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Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness
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May 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...
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Cartoon by
John Deering
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John Deering
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May 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Cartoon by
John Deering
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John Deering
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The birth of the World 1941.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
May 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The birth of the World 1941.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Happy to have a creative nonfiction #CNF piece coming out in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social in August. This will be my 2nd piece to publish there. Stay tuned to learn about my mother who was many things incl. an #Armenian and a refugee from Palestine.
April 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Happy to have a creative nonfiction #CNF piece coming out in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social in August. This will be my 2nd piece to publish there. Stay tuned to learn about my mother who was many things incl. an #Armenian and a refugee from Palestine.
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From each mountain, nation, war, fell the dead, the survivors. From each survivor fell a wound, a world, a wish, a Heaven, three apples and this story.
* How Armenian folktales begin
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From each mountain, nation, war, fell the dead, the survivors. From each survivor fell a wound, a world, a wish, a Heaven, three apples and this story.
* How Armenian folktales begin
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History Lesson
by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman Three apples fell from Heaven, one for the storyteller, one for the listener and one for the eavesdropper.* From each apple fell a million stories. From each story fell a…
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April 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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From each mountain, nation, war, fell the dead, the survivors. From each survivor fell a wound, a world, a wish, a Heaven, three apples and this story.
* How Armenian folktales begin
emergeliteraryjournal.com/history-less...
From each mountain, nation, war, fell the dead, the survivors. From each survivor fell a wound, a world, a wish, a Heaven, three apples and this story.
* How Armenian folktales begin
emergeliteraryjournal.com/history-less...
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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
One for the history books
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April 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Thrilled that my #creativenonfiction piece “Everything I know about love I learned from #StephenSondheim” was published in #EmergeLiteraryJournal. It’s got sad moms, giants in the sky, marriage ambivalence and, yes, #Cher. [email protected] emergeliteraryjournal.com/everything-i...
March 31, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Thrilled that my #creativenonfiction piece “Everything I know about love I learned from #StephenSondheim” was published in #EmergeLiteraryJournal. It’s got sad moms, giants in the sky, marriage ambivalence and, yes, #Cher. [email protected] emergeliteraryjournal.com/everything-i...
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Three days left to apply to our 2026 Mentorship Program! ✍️
Check out what 2023 mentee Karine Armen had to say about her experience with IALA board member Arthur Kayzakian. Don’t miss the chance to grow your craft. Applications close March 31!
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/4sWZjZd
Check out what 2023 mentee Karine Armen had to say about her experience with IALA board member Arthur Kayzakian. Don’t miss the chance to grow your craft. Applications close March 31!
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/4sWZjZd
March 29, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Three days left to apply to our 2026 Mentorship Program! ✍️
Check out what 2023 mentee Karine Armen had to say about her experience with IALA board member Arthur Kayzakian. Don’t miss the chance to grow your craft. Applications close March 31!
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/4sWZjZd
Check out what 2023 mentee Karine Armen had to say about her experience with IALA board member Arthur Kayzakian. Don’t miss the chance to grow your craft. Applications close March 31!
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/4sWZjZd
I realize everything is terrible. Still, I'd love for you to read a #CNF of mine in @emergejournal.bsky.social. This one's got Cher, Stephen Sondheim, sad moms, high school drama, giants, witches, etc. The whole issue is great! emergeliteraryjournal.com/everything-i...
March 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I realize everything is terrible. Still, I'd love for you to read a #CNF of mine in @emergejournal.bsky.social. This one's got Cher, Stephen Sondheim, sad moms, high school drama, giants, witches, etc. The whole issue is great! emergeliteraryjournal.com/everything-i...
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My social support agency is saying "We paid you too much" and will deduct from me every month (again). I'm on medical leave and have faced multiple ER visits with severe mental health. Can folks pls boost my ko fi? ko-fi.com/evaroslinwri...
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March 10, 2026 at 3:58 AM
My social support agency is saying "We paid you too much" and will deduct from me every month (again). I'm on medical leave and have faced multiple ER visits with severe mental health. Can folks pls boost my ko fi? ko-fi.com/evaroslinwri...