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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.

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Unsupervised

By Sky Fusco

Wild at heart, weird on top, and publicly learning to love myself. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, communal living, addiction, making art, & navigating the digital Anthropocene. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Story Arks

By Thalia Toha

On which places are best for our story arcs

Beautiful Strangers by Frances Ray

Encounters, observations and insights in the living of one beautiful ordinary life.

Frances is an enthusiastic crone and encouraging guide for us crone wannabes. She writes vividly about her wide range of interests and experiences.

- Elizabeth Gelfeld

The Liminality Journal

By Kaitlin Curtice

thoughts on the in-between

This is beautiful writing that gently leads the reader through the thin places into spiritual depths.

- Elizabeth Gelfeld

Creative Eldering

By Stephanie Raffelock

Musings, memories and myth-making from the edges of a long and grateful life; a lantern in one hand and a pen in the other; always digging for the soul beneath the story.

Unfurling Yarns by Stephanie Kazdan

Weekly snippets from a regular person, listening at last, to the whisper of creative courage urging me to connect. Let’s share what happens when creativity, intuition and curiosity knit together.

Unfurling Yarns is a beautifully written contemplation of the mundane happenings of daily life. Reading these essays, I keep thinking, "Oh yes, that's true for me, too." Stephanie's words are like small gems strung together, revealing the sparkling wonder of ordinary life.

- Elizabeth Gelfeld

The Cottage

By Diana Butler Bass

Part retreat, part think tank. A place for inspiration and ideas about culture, faith, and spirit.

Chop Wood, Carry Water

By Jess Craven

This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants.

swimming in the soup

By Rebecca Scolnick

a little bit of this, a little bit of that. all things magical & mundane.

Second Half of Life - Pam Day

A healing space for those wandering through the desert of spiritual/religious deconstruction. Break free from shame, reclaim your authentic self. Get excited about writing the next chapter of your life! You are not alone. You Belong.

For anyone who continues or aspires to belong in a spiritual community despite wounds, whether the surface abrasions of disappointed expectations or the deep scars from abuse, Pam's stories are not a self-serving rant, but a message of understanding and love.

- Elizabeth Gelfeld

Writers Who Don't

By Addie

Up Against Ourselves

For anyone who ever feels the call to write but doesn't ... because of time, competing jobs, exhaustion, imposter syndrome, any reason or none ... Addie shows what beautiful writing can result from a simple commitment to doing it.

- Elizabeth Gelfeld

Living Adventure

Recommended by Elizabeth Gelfeld