Wordness

Curating fee-free (AND paying/funded) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

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

Comitragic cogitations on a brazenly eclectic range of topics, including perimenopause, politics, writing, books, mortality, excess tupperware, and failing at mindfulness

A behind-the-scenes look at the business of books.

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Notes from outside the consternation machine

Books & book-adjacent topics, taking the long view, the writing life, and related resources. Posts every 5-6 days.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

A re-imagining of DAVID'S LISTS on Facebook. I'll pass along lists of books to check out, especially the neglected/forgotten sort. And I'll be talking about my Insane Reading Project: Reading at least one book published in each year.

Head of Writer Relations @Substack

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

Dispatches of short stories curated by you, as well as quirky bits from the internet and IRL. Brought to you by Writing Atlas, the world's home for short stories—because every story deserves to be read.