Substacks recommended by K.C. Knouse

Recommended by K.C. Knouse

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

How to Evolve

By Ros Barber

Master the language that shapes your reality—whether you're creating your life, a book, or both. Come for the insights, stay for the personal upgrade.

Ros is a wizard at sharing autobiographical stories with a sense of humor.

- K.C. Knouse

Fiction by Bill Adler

Delightful short stories and flash fiction by Bill Adler.

Bill's incredible imagination propels his fictional tales.

- K.C. Knouse

The Palace of Night

By Liz Zimmers

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

Fiction, mostly.

Off-the-wall fiction depicting man's foibles, follies and fumbles.

Along the Hudson

By Justin Deming

Original fiction delivered from my home along the Hudson River.

THE FICTION DEALER

By The Fiction Dealer

Psst... wanna read a story?

The Freedom Scale

By Christopher Cook

Human rights. Philosophical fury. The impermissibility of the state. A way out of the darkness. The world has gone insane—we already know that. Now…where do we go from here?

A Thousand Fragments

By Matt Inwood

A Thousand Fragments brings together my thoughts on a wide variety of the cultural things which I love: especially books, music and food.

Beautiful, Daring, Stupid

By Meg Oolders

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.

Gopher Farm

By Sharon Hudson

Poetry, fiction and memoir coming from Santa Cruz every Sunday. It's free!

Writing Wrongs

By Jim J Wilsky

Fiction that has friction. I will post author interviews, classic book recommendations and my own crime short stories. I am also the co-author of a four-book series that is available in print, audio and ebook formats at Amazon and other similar outlets.

Jim is a master of the craft of writing, especially crime fiction.

- K.C. Knouse

Disorder

By Peter Smetanick

Blending fiction with reality - Mental illness under the microscope - Short stories, poetry, and personal essays.

Mark Starlin Writes!

A laugh, a smile, or even a tear. It's all here.

Mark's quirky sense of humor never fails to entertain.

- K.C. Knouse

McCall Method

By DARIUS

Revelation forged through narrative. Historical, biographical, and spiritual dissections from the 69-book study and the Bible — each refined into living doctrine.

McCall Literary Dominion

By DARIUS

McCall Literary Dominion publishes fiction in progress, testing psychological thrillers, crime, and dark literary work for consequence and endurance.

LEAVES

By Sharron Bassano

Short character-driven fiction, evocative travel tales, memoirs and a lot of laughs. Always free. 🌿LEAVES are proven to be better for your mental health than the daily newspaper or social media.

Sharron loves the subjects of her writing and that love shows through. Captivating characters and inspired descriptive prose.

- K.C. Knouse

Parker McCoy

I enjoy reading and writing crime fiction.

An American Writer and Essayist

By An American Writer & Essayist

My Substack where I showcase my stories, occasionally discuss politics, and post reviews of books, comics, tv shows, movies, and video games. I'm a Catholic and American Localist/Race Realist. “Come on. you apes! You want to live forever!”

Tiny Worlds

By J. Curtis

Flash and short fiction. Also a novel. Who knows what else might appear.

Between the Wines

By BB Corcs

A front-row seat to my (mostly) chaotic thoughts—personal essays, story-adjacent musings, book & wine pairings, and the occasional hot take you didn’t ask for but probably need. Updated weekly, because consistency is my one redeeming quality. Sometimes.

A Weekly Dose of Fiction

By C. Lee McKenzie

Reader, Writer, Reviewer Always In Search of Words.

All Day Long

By Jim Cummings

Short fiction from a seasoned observer of humans.

Fantastic writing that entertains and inspires.

- K.C. Knouse

A Literary Eye

By A.C. Cargill

A.C. Cargill is doing her best to connect readers to writers. She also presents her views on literature, excerpts from her books, peeks into her Freelan novel series, and occasional flash fiction. Thanks for reading.

Christopher Sworen

Writer of novels and short stories. I look at what's wrong with this world and write about it.

Written Ward: From the Gap

By John

Exploring the gap between experience and understanding.

Dr. Tenpenny's Eye on the Evidence

By From Dr. Tenpenny's Substack

The Original Voice of Vaccine Research, Truth and Education

Before I Forget . .

By James Ron

My stories. Some are true.

Garbage Notes

By Franco Amati

from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes

Matte Black

By Shane Bzdok

Short stories and microfiction set in the speculative realms of dystopia, science fiction, and horror.

Dynamic Creed: The Sharp Edge of Fiction

By Victor David @ Dynamic Creed

One of a kind evocative creative fiction outside the designs of our times

Ink After Dark

By Erica Drayton

Horror and mystery fiction told in many forms: 100 Word Stories, short stories, & serials.

Roman Newell

By Roman’s Substack

Hey, I'm Roman. Poet, novelist. Putting words together in unfamiliar ways and helping you scratch the itch.

A Work Of Fiction

By Hanna Delaney

Horror | Science Fiction | Fairy Tales | Born and raised in Liverpool, UK, Hanna is the author of Oceanus, The Spider, and The Ring. She writes speculative fiction and horror, but her stories span a range of genres.

Pretty Evil Fiction

By Author Michele Bardsley

Shiny sharp words. Scarred hearts. Unlimited glitter. Welcome, all.

Persona Non Propria

By Clancy Steadwell

Pseudonymous contemporary fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Essays on themes relating to the fiction.

Stories From Nowhere

By Tom Cornfoot

I get these stories, but I have no idea where they come from, see. Then I write them down and send them to you. One every Wednesday. That's it.

Books for Men

By Miles Madron

Discover the novels that forge stronger men. Teaching you to read people like a book, handle any situation, and never back down when it matters.

Shattered State of Mind

By Beaking the Circle Substack

Learning to live in the shadow of childhood abuse, seen through the lens of middle age

The Upheaval

By N.S. Lyons (The Upheaval)

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.