Naz Riahi
@nazriahi.bsky.social
Writer. Artist. Filmmaker.
Filmmaker Mag 25 New Faces of Indie Film, Vimeo Best of the Year winner. Yaddo, Edward Albee Foundation & Jan Michalski Fellow. Essays & stories in A Public Space, Harper's Bazaar, Longreads, Pipe Wrench, Catapult… nazriahi.com
Filmmaker Mag 25 New Faces of Indie Film, Vimeo Best of the Year winner. Yaddo, Edward Albee Foundation & Jan Michalski Fellow. Essays & stories in A Public Space, Harper's Bazaar, Longreads, Pipe Wrench, Catapult… nazriahi.com
I didn’t realize this would hit so hard but my post on how to leave Spotify has gone viral on Instagram and hundreds of people have replied saying they did it! It’s truly a painless process. Thinking about doing it is more arduous than doing it.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I didn’t realize this would hit so hard but my post on how to leave Spotify has gone viral on Instagram and hundreds of people have replied saying they did it! It’s truly a painless process. Thinking about doing it is more arduous than doing it.
Got to meet the only person giving me hope these days @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and feel so privileged to get to support his campaign for mayor. Please get out there volunteer for him and tell everyone you know to show up and vote for this historic candidate.
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Got to meet the only person giving me hope these days @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and feel so privileged to get to support his campaign for mayor. Please get out there volunteer for him and tell everyone you know to show up and vote for this historic candidate.
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All Senator Padilla wanted was to do his job and get the questions his constituents had answered — instead, he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
This is Donald Trump's America, where they attack our freedoms.
We cannot be intimidated or scared by their abuses of power.
This is Donald Trump's America, where they attack our freedoms.
We cannot be intimidated or scared by their abuses of power.
June 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
All Senator Padilla wanted was to do his job and get the questions his constituents had answered — instead, he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
This is Donald Trump's America, where they attack our freedoms.
We cannot be intimidated or scared by their abuses of power.
This is Donald Trump's America, where they attack our freedoms.
We cannot be intimidated or scared by their abuses of power.
Wrote an essay about exile, on the 36th anniversary of leaving Iran, and as I consider my future in this country...
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Exile Is a Prison
36 years...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wrote an essay about exile, on the 36th anniversary of leaving Iran, and as I consider my future in this country...
inaletter.substack.com/p/exile-is-a...
inaletter.substack.com/p/exile-is-a...
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Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in northern Gaza overnight, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday, as Israel threatens to ramp up its military campaign in the enclave despite mounting international pressure.
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Dozens in Northern Gaza Overnight, Hospital Director Says
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May 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in northern Gaza overnight, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday, as Israel threatens to ramp up its military campaign in the enclave despite mounting international pressure.
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Using AI to write papers is like bringing a forklift to the gym.
May 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Using AI to write papers is like bringing a forklift to the gym.
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
I wrote about my resistance to leave home and my first few days at The Edward Albee Foundation where I’m a writing fellow and where other writers, like @alexanderchee.bsky.social are sending me messages through their books. Very big vibes here.
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Montauk, NY
Writers Are Talking to Me
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May 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I wrote about my resistance to leave home and my first few days at The Edward Albee Foundation where I’m a writing fellow and where other writers, like @alexanderchee.bsky.social are sending me messages through their books. Very big vibes here.
open.substack.com/pub/inalette...
open.substack.com/pub/inalette...
I’m headed to the Edward Albee Foundation for a residency and feeling immensely grateful to him for creating this invaluable opportunity. I can’t wait to be in the house he and his partner shared for so many years. Hoping his spirit will move my pen, if it’s not too much to ask ;)
April 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m headed to the Edward Albee Foundation for a residency and feeling immensely grateful to him for creating this invaluable opportunity. I can’t wait to be in the house he and his partner shared for so many years. Hoping his spirit will move my pen, if it’s not too much to ask ;)
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Our Friday newsletter: How do you define journalism?
Plus: Mary Schmich revisits Studs Terkel's "Division Street," Livingston Award finalists, @michaelngraff.bsky.social's stories about Charlotte, and @nazriahi.bsky.social's ode to rejection.
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#storytelling
Plus: Mary Schmich revisits Studs Terkel's "Division Street," Livingston Award finalists, @michaelngraff.bsky.social's stories about Charlotte, and @nazriahi.bsky.social's ode to rejection.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/25/w...
#storytelling
What is journalism, and why does it matter? - Nieman Storyboard
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Schmich's new podcast, plus Livingston Awards and local storytelling in Charlotte, North Carolina
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April 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our Friday newsletter: How do you define journalism?
Plus: Mary Schmich revisits Studs Terkel's "Division Street," Livingston Award finalists, @michaelngraff.bsky.social's stories about Charlotte, and @nazriahi.bsky.social's ode to rejection.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/25/w...
#storytelling
Plus: Mary Schmich revisits Studs Terkel's "Division Street," Livingston Award finalists, @michaelngraff.bsky.social's stories about Charlotte, and @nazriahi.bsky.social's ode to rejection.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/25/w...
#storytelling
I know we all feel some way about rejection, but I'm surprised and delighted by all the responses to this short essay on my own experiences with rejection as an artist and writer and how I cope. Thanks to everyone reading, engaging with and sharing this. inaletter.substack.com/p/so-difficu...
So Difficult. So Worth It.
The road to success is paved with rejection...
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April 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I know we all feel some way about rejection, but I'm surprised and delighted by all the responses to this short essay on my own experiences with rejection as an artist and writer and how I cope. Thanks to everyone reading, engaging with and sharing this. inaletter.substack.com/p/so-difficu...
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Love this ode to rejection by the great @nazriahi.bsky.social.
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#writing #booksky
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#writing #booksky
So Difficult. So Worth It.
The road to success is paved with rejection...
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April 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Love this ode to rejection by the great @nazriahi.bsky.social.
inaletter.substack.com/p/so-difficu...
#writing #booksky
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#writing #booksky
If you read one thing today…this week…this month…let it be this extraordinary and essential essay by Kaveh Akbar in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you read one thing today…this week…this month…let it be this extraordinary and essential essay by Kaveh Akbar in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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“We are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him...”
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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@adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“We are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him...”
@adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
My mother and brother are finally vindicated.
Finally a definitive answer to why outside clothes do not belong on your bed.
How Gross Is Your Bed, Actually
Finally a definitive answer to why outside clothes do not belong on your bed.
www.thecut.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My mother and brother are finally vindicated.
I have a short story, The Desert, in the new issue of A Public Space, which is extra thrilling as I’ve loved the journal and wanted to be published by them since their inception. Keywords for this story: mothers and daughters, oy. Mickalene Thomas. Wanda. Pippa Bacca. Gay gay gay. Coyotes. Desert.
January 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I have a short story, The Desert, in the new issue of A Public Space, which is extra thrilling as I’ve loved the journal and wanted to be published by them since their inception. Keywords for this story: mothers and daughters, oy. Mickalene Thomas. Wanda. Pippa Bacca. Gay gay gay. Coyotes. Desert.
Wrote about two moments I’ve experienced when life was most present and disappearing simultaneously. It was a week. And just the start.
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Disappearing Earth
A view from the top
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January 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wrote about two moments I’ve experienced when life was most present and disappearing simultaneously. It was a week. And just the start.
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Going to de-activate Twitter, but don’t want anyone to ever forget my greatest accomplishment so far was taking this picture.
January 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Going to de-activate Twitter, but don’t want anyone to ever forget my greatest accomplishment so far was taking this picture.
Weird to be away from home at this time but also immensely grateful to the Jan Michalski Foundation. Escaping to Switzerland for this writing residency couldn’t have come at a better time.
January 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Weird to be away from home at this time but also immensely grateful to the Jan Michalski Foundation. Escaping to Switzerland for this writing residency couldn’t have come at a better time.
There are 4 spots left in my very fun essay class. All levels welcome. We work with prompts and deadlines to get writing, while talking about craft and building a community. Info and sign up: nazriahi.com/classes
December 28, 2024 at 12:03 AM
There are 4 spots left in my very fun essay class. All levels welcome. We work with prompts and deadlines to get writing, while talking about craft and building a community. Info and sign up: nazriahi.com/classes
I made a list of the best things I read, watched and saw this year. Books, essays, stories, poems, films, performances, art and tv. Let me know your favorites.
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A List of ...
Everything Good I Read, Watched, Saw This Year
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December 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I made a list of the best things I read, watched and saw this year. Books, essays, stories, poems, films, performances, art and tv. Let me know your favorites.
inaletter.substack.com/p/a-list-of
inaletter.substack.com/p/a-list-of
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Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large.
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Gisèle Pelicot rape trial: ex-husband jailed for 20 years as all 51 men found guilty
Gisèle Pelicot addresses other sexual violence victims after the verdicts, saying outside court: ‘We share the same fight’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...