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Recommended by Bertus

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A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

A hill and I

By Susie Mawhinney

Field conversations and blurry photography from a hill in SW France, wrapped in self sufficient chaos, memoir obscurities and armfuls of love!

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

Life has taught me to never be scared of challenges.

Don’t read when hungry….this man is dangerous when it comes to food…

- Bertus

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

The Great Simplification

By Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment.

Fiction, mostly.

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

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

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.

Adam sparkles and manages to surprise me with each post, feel something twice a week, is his promise, and he keeps it.

- Bertus

Mel's Notebook

By Melanie Conklin

Weekly fodder for creative living.

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

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.

Forging Fiction

By Fiction Community

Helping fiction writers upgrade their skillset and amplify their audience

Until everything is continuous

By Michael Driver

To understand the least thing you would have to perceive the entire circumstance of all its accidence, until everything is continuous.

Veronika’s Substack : Serialized Non-Fiction

By Veronika Bond

Welcome to Synchronosophy ~ A Rough Guide to the Feral Side of Life. How a map of the inner world landed out of the blue and taught me to make sense of life through the lens of subjective experience.

ArtPostAI

Artist and AI Researcher. Short, concise posts, giving guidance for artists navigating the AI art wave.

From The Forests of Arduinna

By Rhyd Wildermuth

A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.

Veronika’s Substack : Wordcasts for the Symbiocene

By Veronika Bond

Welcome to Symbiopædia! You are entering the wildwordwoods ~ a verbiophile zone to protect precious words from doublespeak, identity theft and verbicide. Wordcasts for the Symbiocene go public on Wild-Word-Wednesdays

Spirit Connections with Jenna Newell Hiott

Explore archesphere and tarot wisdom, ancestral healing, and the living magic that connects all realms—together, we’re ushering in the more relational way.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Rune Soup

By Gordon

Rune Soup is a podcast and YouTube channel about magic, and the world's largest online magical training community. This is its completely free newsletter.

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack.

The Climate According to Life

By Rob Lewis

Writings on the science, poetics and politics of the living climate.

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

Such beautiful and sharp writing about her struggle…a memoir that reads like a novel…highly recommended when you are unfixed too…

- Bertus

Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

My living room is the world. Pull up a chair.

How to Go Home

By Eleanor Robins

On imagination and the possibility that we’re living through a shift in consciousness, via the deep histories of humanity, art, and writing.

Writer pilgrim Substack

By Writer Pilgrim by So Elite

Writer Pilgrim is a writer, journalist, poet & teacher who runs podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds, TINAWW writers workshops in person/online, offers personalised poems, NaPoWriMo host, monthly song title poetry, weekly prompts & social hangout SPAWN.

The Taste of Wild Water

By Lysianne Rondeau

My name is Lysianne and I'm a herbalist, teacher, storyteller, consciousness explorer, Earth ecstatic, translator, and lover of life. I continue the work that Stephen Harrod Buhner has started on this beautiful Earth.

Pain to Prose

By Gary Swaby

Pain to Prose is the brand of chronically ill Sickle Cell patient Gary Swaby (Gary Swift). Here you’ll find posts about sickle cell, mindfulness and serial fiction. The thriller series Mere Immortal is currently publishing weekly under this imprint.

Thresholds to the Otherworld

By Stephanie Thomas Berry

exploring the mystical experiences embedded in creative work and dreaming

Enfant Terrible

By Remy Bazerque

Spleens, sins, and dad-related exhaustings from an award-winning writer/director, currently avoiding work on a screenplay.