The Distracted Writer

A newsletter for those who love to travel, are curious about travel writing, or just enjoy reading thought-provoking, introspective travel essays.

Motherhood, fiction, and poetry, by former journalist-turned-full-time boy mom Katherine Mansfield

A fiercely honest, creatively radical space where writing meets healing, rebellion meets ritual, and storytelling becomes survival.

Eight curated literary submission opportunities every other Sunday for all genres.

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

"I wander like a tardy pilgrim after beauty." ~ Alexander Blok

Out of the shadows and into the deep.

"I write to discover what I know." - Flannery O'Connor

Reclaiming the joy and magic of the human experience in a world that wants to keep us distracted.

I write about being a human, and I also write about being a mother.