Jane’s Calamity

A home for writing by women about life, love, and loss at midlife, from the editors of the HerStories Project.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

An award-deserving newsletter about turning tragedy into comedy--with monthly generative writing sessions for paid subscribers and my crushes.

Corporate escapee, coach, midlife navigator. Finding purpose in the pause. If you're in the messy middle - this space is for you. Nature soothes me. Coaching centers me. Photography teaches me to pay attention

Join award-winning novelist and writing teacher Michelle Hoover with tips and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, with a range of author interviews and writing challenges to help you get a new project going and keep you in your chair.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Author Crystal King's myriad musings on food, history, Italy, social media, tech, books, and culture.

Culture, media, politics and parenting. Oh, did someone say pick a lane? Adorable.

Life, creating, being a writer, and publishing--from the longtime series editor of The Best American Short Stories.

A hilarious and often factual romp through motherhood, the world of social media, old-school media, publishing and whatever else catches our fancy.

#AmWriting is a podcast and Groupstack hosted by KJ Dell’Antonia, Jess Lahey, Sarina Bowen, & Jennie Nash. Listen, read and join up for hard-won advice and inspiration to help you play big in your writing life and finish work that matters.

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

Welcome to Cheryl Strayed's newsletter. Everything is free right now. The paid "Dear Sugar" newsletter is currently on hiatus.

The day's most fascinating news from the Internet's Managing Editor

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

lessons on creative challenges drawn from sports and the outdoors

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

Art, poetry, and creative practices for multi-passionate people looking to reclaim their attention and live thoughtfully in a distracted, extractive world.

I'm that friend who drops by for a chit-chat and makes you spit your tea all over your new tablecloth. Subscribe for silly stories about my life as a lesbian housewyfe—travel, knitting, recipes, Mack the Dog, and other household adventures.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

Randy Susan Meyers examines the ‘what if’ and ‘why" of life in her six novels, grew up in a Brooklyn library and still spends at least half her life reading.

A, E, I, O, U... and sometimes Y. The single most confused letter of the alphabet is never quite one thing or another. These days, I can relate.

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

judge mathis recaps + milf-on-milf romance

I read the news today, oh boy

Comics about gender, justice, aging, and life as a woman in America.

An exploration of why we love movies and art, and a continuing rumination on what those things say about us.

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

And other musings about life, politics and doing what we can to create the world we want to live in.