About

A magazine for the girls and women adults keep underestimating.

Published by EmpoweredGirlhood. Written by our editors and by anyone female enough to feel like the world isn't quite listening yet.

How Lore works

Part in-house daily. Part community. Part whatever you write next.

The Lore Daily

Monday to Friday, from us.

Our in-house editors publish one piece every weekday. It pins to the top of the homepage. It sets the tone for the week.

Contributors

Anyone female, anywhere.

Pitch us a piece or send us the finished thing. If we run it, it goes out under your byline, with your city attached, on our front page.

Editors

Every piece read by a human.

Real editors, not a queue and not an algorithm. If it's a yes we tell you fast. If it's a no we tell you why — so the next pitch works.

Our editorial philosophy

We publish arguments, not affirmations.
A Lore piece has a point of view. If it could have been written by a brand, we don't run it.
The name matters as much as the headline.
Every byline is prominent. Where you're writing from is part of the piece. Anonymous is the exception, not the norm.
Being female isn't a caveat. It's the credential.
We don't pretend our writers are gender-neutral or age-neutral. Being a girl or a woman is the point of the whole thing.

A note

Sam — Founder2025

A note from Sam

I started Lore at fourteen because I couldn't find anything that sounded like me. The girl magazines were selling me eyeliner. The grown-up magazines were writing about me like I was a case study. My friends and I were talking about student politics, our mothers' bank accounts, K-pop labor contracts, sickle cell, and God — sometimes in the same conversation. Nobody was printing that.

Lore is the thing I wanted at fourteen. It's a magazine for teenage girls that treats them like the adults they mostly already are, and a magazine for the women they'll become who still remember what it felt like to be fifteen and correct and completely ignored.

Read something. Then write something back.

Sam's picks

An apéritif list.

Small pleasures I keep returning to. If Lore had a soundtrack, this would be the intro track: quiet, slightly indulgent, a little embarrassing on purpose.

kir royale + annotated margins
a crush with no practical future
one library book, kept too long
the second coffee, on a school day
a diary in a public place
one perfect sentence, over and over

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The parent organization behind Lore. We build media, programs, and rooms nobody built for us. Then we let people in.

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