Substacks recommended by Aisling Walsh

Recommended by Aisling Walsh

How to rebuild your life after serious trauma. I share intimate essays and actionable resources to help survivors feel less alone. 📍 Made (with love) in Dublin, Ireland.

Clare is such a wonderful writer, candid and vulnerable, while always managing to find something to celebrate even when confronting some of life's most challenging circumstances. She show's great care to her readers and shares from a place of deeply informed experience. Beyond Survival is one of my favourite weekly reads!

- Aisling Walsh

How to Glow in the Dark

By Neon Literary

Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.

Indigiqueer Confidential

By Joseph M. Pierce

Queer. Indigenous. Academic-ish things.

Healing is My Special Interest

By D.L. Mayfield

The intersection of late-diagnosed neurodivergence and healing from high-control environments. Also, combatting Christian fascism!

For the Birds

By Sarah Teresa Cook

A sanctuary for tenderhearted writers and divergent creative humans.

Freelance Writing Jobs

By Sian Meades-Williams

Helping writers earn millions of pounds in commissions since 2018. Calls for pitches, creative submissions, freelance and part-time writing jobs. All UK-based. Compiled by Sian Meades-Williams.

Autistic Culture | Late Diagnosis Club

By Autistic Culture 🧡 Late Diagnosis Club

Understand your Autistic identity, find your community, and build a life that finally fits. Join subscribers from 66 countries and all 50 states in a community that gets you.

CRAFT TALK

By Craft Talk

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.

I LOVE YOU

By Laurie Green

I LOVE YOU is confession in search of encounter. An embodied exploration of relationship, love, and connection. Let's meet each other.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Insurgent Thoughts

Insurgent Thoughts is a newsletter that explores radical, anti-colonial, decolonial, and anti-imperialist ideas, histories, and struggles for liberation.

feministkilljoys

By Sara Ahmed

killing joy as a world making project

Frazzled Lit

Welcome to Frazzled Lit, the home of sparky and exciting prose, flash fiction, poetry and CNF! Subscriptions are free, but are not required to view our content.

Mindbodies Decolonised

By AJ Singh

The newsletter about rediscovering who we were before our mindbodies were colonised, brought to you by AJ Singh.

brain bits n bobs

By Becky

a newsletter brought to you by an Autistic, ADHD, & Bipolar brain

Without Apology from Paula Dennan

Without Apology provides commentary on abortion rights & reproductive justice. Learning and Unlearning features essays on feminism, activism, & intentional living. The Reading Journal offers essays on books that make you think about life differently.

Clash of the Neurodivergence

Navigating, processing and reflecting upon neurodivergence, mental health, family and other interactions as a British-born Chinese trans, queer person. Debut comic book, "The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse" out in October 2024.

Amplify Respect

By Rey Katz

You are welcome here if you're LGBTQ+, an ally, or just curious about a nonbinary writer's experience. I share relatable weekly true stories about what it's like to be trans and nonbinary, hiking, travel, martial arts, and building community!

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing

By Amber Sparks

Useless and flailing observations about writing that will not save you

trans poetica

By SG Huerta

poetry! transness! queer & trans poetry & writing! & maybe the occasional rant or rave about other media

Cup of Stars

By Carmen Maria Machado

Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.

Foreign Bodies

By Fiza Pirani

An award-winning newsletter centering immigrants with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness and encourage storytelling

Autistic Hippy

By Jemma

Reflections of a Late Diagnosed Autistic

Scatterwild

By Irina González

Radically honest writing from the messy middle of life. Essays from a therapist-in-training on identity, ADHD, mental health, culture, and raising a neurodivergent kid—for those of us holding it all together and falling apart a little, too.

Taco Bell Quarterly

Updates, dread, and writing inspiration from the most Literary Magazine of all time

Advocating Autonomy

By Pauline Harley

Challenging norms. Reclaiming subjectivity. Advocating autonomy across life, work, and identity.

AutCasts

Recommended by Aisling Walsh