Author. Journalist. Reader.
Aliya Bree Hall is a lesbian author and award-winning freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Elmira, Oregon, Aliya graduated from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications in 2017 with an internship from Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism.
Despite her preference for city living, Aliya has spent most of her professional life writing about rural spaces. She has worked for three community newspapers in the Southern Willamette Valley, contributed to multiple agricultural publications and the rural lifestyle magazine, The Other Oregon, and features rural settings in her fiction books.
Her byline has also been featured in The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, Portland Mercury, 1859, and Indiegraf. Nowadays, Aliya's reporting primarily covers the LGBTQ+ community as well as author profiles and occasional features on independent news outlets.
Currently, Aliya is immersing herself within the publishing industry. She has published two non-fiction eBooks through Authors Publish, Now Comes the Hard Part: The Authors Publish Introduction to Marketing Your Book and How to Revise for Publication. Her short story “The Forest's Call” was published in the Bleak Midwinter Vol. I: The Darkest Night anthology by Quill & Crow Press.
She is revising her sapphic journalism romance novel to query, LOVE LETTER TO THE EDITOR and is the founder of Sapphic Stories Book Club: Queer & Feminist Tales.
Aliya also enjoys thrifting and exploring Portland with her fiancée, or embroidering while cuddling with her three cats.
Love Letter To The Editor
Currently Working On…
When the Cooke City Register decides to extend its coverage into the small neighboring town of Truxton, reporter Charlie Crenshaw immediately makes an enemy out of Rochelle Ambers, the editor of the town's community newspaper — the Truxton Tribune. While clambering for the town's readership, controversy breaks out when School Board Member Ann Marie voices concern about a trans teacher at the high school, forcing Charlie and Rochelle to reexamine the reality of their own identities while balancing objectivity, as well as hiding from the burgeoning feelings developing for one other.
Awards & Accolades.
Chosen as an intern for the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism.
2017
Won second place in Best Educational Coverage for the series “Fighting Failure“ by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. It explored how school districts were implementing new programs with the Student Success Act.
2020
Finalist in Scribbler’s first chapter contest with submitted work from working title “Scarred.”
2021
Finalist in Scribbler’s Fantasy & Sci-fi scene contest with submitted work from working title “Scarred.”
