She's Gone Chilaquiles

Essays and weekly card readings on finding magic in the mundane. A place to be human, together.

gotham girl is a reader-supported newsletter for inquisitive readers from bestselling author Alisa Kennedy Jones. "One of America’s funniest, most singular voices on Substack" — The New York Times

Dedicated to the art and science of midlife women thriving, THE EMPRESS brings content, community, and agency to millions of menopausal women through our networks of networks and deep partnerships with cultural changemakers.

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

Poetry, short fiction, and sound experiments

Confessions of an Opinionated Oncologist

from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes

Weird fiction for weirder times.

Writing on motherhood, selfhood, and what’s in between.

Funny, deep, relatable stories from a dad to two, husband to one, friend to all (free for all) + BATCAVE (workshops, cowriting, "community") for paid subscribers.

Light-hearted tales about the delights and despairs of parenting, probation, and modern life. 'Honest, heartfelt and very funny,' - Jessica Knappett (Actress, comedian, writer)

The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of magazine.

Love, loss, and other emergencies. A Substack Featured Publication 2025.

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

Arts, books, history, life!

Writing. Food. Observations. Not all three all the time.

Childhood, motherhood, all that's in-between – research, real life, tea ✌🏻❤️☕

Suspended just high enough to let the earth do the moving for me. Fiction, Art, Culture, Life & Critters.

a slice-of-life newsletter on beauty and aging, dispatched from American suburbia

Essays about my formerly dysfunctional life, the family I came from and how I recovered. It's funny, sometimes a bit dark, and very, very real.

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

A bird sound in your inbox every weekend, January to June

sketches, flash fiction, musings and observations

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

Figuring out the universe through some good old loathing and resentment. These are ill-tempered and ill-remembered love bits from the Shitstorm.

Bach is the greatest, and I haven't yet heard his complete catalog, so in 2024, I'm listening to every Bach composition and writing about it here.

Memoir and narrative medicine essays from a perpetually rounding physician

How much do childhood wounds shape who we become? What does it mean to heal? How can you be a deeply feeling person in this world right now and not lose your mind? We'll get into all of that and more. Thanks for spending some time with me.

Essays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books

Poetry and prose, sometimes playful, sometimes reflective. Enjoy my poetry book, ILLICIT CROISSANTS AT DAWN, available on Amazon.

Pseudonymous contemporary fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Essays on themes relating to the fiction.

All the best recipes, common sense cooking tips, and ways to fall back in love with food from 3x NY Times best-selling author Michelle Albanes Davis 🏳️‍🌈. For curious people who love to eat, cook, get in their feelings, and talk a lil sh*t.

Reflections on motherhood & creative ambition. For people who ache for the sacred, wink at the profane and hold the deepest stuff lightly.

I started sharing, 40 years on, in full, my teenage diary from pre-digital 1984. In 1985 I went interrailing. And other writings: poems, songs, and other personal things I wish to write. To you. Thanks for subscribing.

Writings, findings, amusements, nonsense – six at a time.

A newsletter from a classical musician turned stand up comedian.

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

Horror fiction with an abundance of quiet dread and moral ambiguity.

"The Rhythm" is a piggy bank to hold my pennies. The phrase comes from Cool Runnings a movie I wrote thirty years ago.

Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

Writing music and writing about writing music.

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

In February 2024 I committed to writing one story a month for a hundred months. This is the journey to May 2032. Join me Sunday for the stories, the backstories, and the sneak peeks.

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Humour essays and semi-fictional writings about life's essential struggles written by an alternative comedian

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

Dry puns, Water guns, Detroit Pistons, Phoenix Suns.

Notorious gadfly nips at feebs, dweebs, and other enemies of the Republic.

Scribbling into the void!