WORDS
"Reasons Why I Can't Have a Boyfriend," Voicemail Poems, October 2015
"The November We Are Fifteen," Crack the Spine, February 2016
"A Long Goodbye," apt, February 2016
"Scales," Blotterature, March 2016
"Crazy Girl," Five:2:One, March 2016
"The Fourth War," The Bitchin' Kitsch, April 2016
"Yes God," The Chaffey Review, May 2016
"Until They Get to Know You," The Axe Factory, May 2016
"What Grows in the Desert," Insert Lit Mag Here, May 2016
"The November We Are Fifteen" (reprint), "The Doctor," "Switch Hitter," Neon Magazine, summer 2016
"The Highway is Just Concrete," Arsenic Lobster, September 2016
"The Shape of the Sky," Five:2:One, November 2016
"Hold Tight," "Looking at Him Looking at You," RoguePoetry, December 2016
"The November We Are Fifteen" (reprint), Crack the Spine Anthology XV, May 2017
"The November We Are Fifteen" (reprint), The Best Small Fictions 2017 anthology, September 2017
"Steak Dinner," Buck Off Magazine, June 2018
“Like Pulling Teeth,” Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology, April 2019
“Things My Father Said,” “When I Pray to My Dead Dogs,” “Meteor,” Pamplemousse, April 2019
“How Maria Bamford Saved My Life,” Your Impossible Voice, October 2019
“The State Fair of Virginia,” Peregrine XXXVI, November 2022
IMAGES
"Thicket of Trash," Dark Ink Magazine, Fall 2018
“Thicket of Trash,” Porter House Review, April 2019
“Pumpkinhead,” Unstamatic, November 2019
“Clearwater Beach, October,” Saw Palm, March 2020
“Jeff Davis Down,” NPR, June 2020
“Jeff Davis Down,” The New York Times, June 2020
Featured Photographers of 2021, Hellotittie, January 2021
“Shooting Skateboarding on Kentmere 400,” Ilford Photo, November 2022
PRESS
"Sharing Stories Through Poetry and Spoken Word with Slam Richmond," RVA Magazine, August 2015
"Slam Richmond," Whurk Magazine, August 2016
"Interview: Our 2017 Forward Nominees," Neon Books, March 2017
"Secretly Y'all Presents Stories of Misadventure," The Commonwealth Times, January 2018
"17 Lydia Armstrong," Prose & Cons, April 2018
"Thicket of Trash by Lydia Renee Armstrong," Anti-Heroin Chic, September 2018
"Lydia Armstrong & Morgan Potts," Prose & Cons, February 2019
“Photography Collective Opens Exhibit Showcasing Summer Protests,” VPM, October 2020
“‘Our Streets’ exhibit at new Norfolk gallery…,” The Virginian-Pilot, October 2020
GALLERY
“Hide #2,” New Nude 2, bG Gallery, April 2020 (online gallery exhibition)
“Priest at CVS,” “The Best Apology is Changed Behavior,” “Davis Down,” “Dethroned,” Our Streets, Slowdive Gallery, October 2020
“Cellulite,” “Belly Fat,” “Stretch Marks,” “Garden,” Body Positivity, Richmond Art Garage, November 2020
“Yawn,” “Steven’s Back,” The Art of Us, Gallery 5, February 2023