Jane Dougherty's Bestiary

Where the stories are dark, the stars are bright, and anything can happen.

poetry and art

Observations, fiction, haiku(!), acquired brain injury. Favourite tree: Swamp gum, a.k.a. Mountain Ash, a.k.a. Eucalyptus regnans. Finalist Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2021.

I'm resurrecting a town. Is it really dead? You betcha. Even the funeral home is closed. Stories are a cure. Readers are another.

A space where I share ideas, concepts and fragments of stories that I am working on. Expect mostly fiction, with a sprinkling of despair, suspense, and Lovecraftian influences.

Twisty stories with a dark edge. Some previously published, some new, often speculative. Think Tales of the Unexpected meets The Sixth Sense with a hint of Donnie Darko.

Where female senescence intersects with Irish landscape, mythical and natural.

Rebecca Cook shares digital drawing and lyric poetry with a philosophical edge that is as razor sharp as it is heartfelt and tender.

Poetry found in Teutonic Mythology—and a few things that aren't.

The world is a mystery. We pull miraculous and dreadful things from thin air every day.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. (William Blake).

Dispatches from Ukraine

We publish flash fiction, personal essays, memoir, and novellas-in-flash. A home for great writing online since 2005.

Welcome to The Tearoom, where I reflect on reading, writing, and art! Join me each Sunday for Steeped This Week, a segment in which I share great articles and update you on my bookish life.

This is a place for me to publish stories - short and long. I'm currently posting a thriller that I wrote a few years ago called The Pact.

My personal Substack

A mercurial space for fiction (poetry, humor, essays, podcasts) and honesty from award-winning author, bona fide super-romantic, and critically-acclaimed mother of two, Meg Oolders.

Resettled into a farming life, surrounded by Great Lakes and wealthy vacationers, the author asks about our choices, given and taken.

My personal Substack

An eclectic brew of speculative fiction and random thoughts about storytelling

I'm using Substack as a motivator. I want to become more productive as a writer. I write short stories, essays, and, occasionally, poems. I have no particular agenda; I just write about whatever grabs my attention.

Writing about birding, history, and landscape, both in fictional worlds and the world under this sun.

A community for fiction writers on Substack.

Does what it says on the tin! Writing regularly about all sorts of subjects that interest me and hopefully you too!

My place for fiction inspired by music, old stories and new thoughts.

This is my space for poetry and images, readings and reviews

My personal Substack

My journey has taken me to Ukraine, initially serving in the military and now carrying out therapy sessions for war trauma. Please participate in our success! There is a book series recounting activities in Ukraine, and up-to-date articles and a podcast.

Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writer. Old School style gamer.

Writing and poetry prompts

Stories and essays in the evening that traverse the gradient between the profound and ridiculous.

Fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays.

stories, magic & interesting finds