Substacks recommended by Lani V. Cox

Recommended by Lani V. Cox

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The Practicing Writer 2.0: A Newsletter from Erika Dreifus

By Erika Dreifus/The Practicing Writer Newsletter

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

Lauca’s tales and TCM insights

By Lauca's tales and TCM insights

A European writer with a touch of East Asia: this newsletter is for curious people, who are attracted to Asian and European cultures, who love stories, travelling, Traditional Chinese Medicine and qigong.

Veronika’s Substack : Wordcasts for the Symbiocene

By Veronika Bond

Welcome to Symbiopædia! You are entering the wildwordwoods ~ a verbiophile zone to protect precious words from doublespeak, identity theft and verbicide. Wordcasts for the Symbiocene go public on Wild-Word-Wednesdays

Rebecca Moon Ruark

Reader, writer, ruminator, beginner poet, Mass cantor, kitchen dancer, Rust Belt lit. lover, and twin mom busy querying a novel about the healing power of song. Find me at rebeccamoonruark.com.

I've been reading Rebecca for many years now. I think we found each other during the pandemic and ever since then a friendship has formed through our words and love of reading.

- Lani V. Cox

Everyone Else is Taken

By Sue

Amusing, introspective, relatable. These cozy but thought-provoking posts are suitable for tea breaks, unwelcome dread at 3 a.m. or waiting for pasta to boil. Repeat as needed. Won’t you join me?

Put simply, I adore Sue and her writing.

- Lani V. Cox

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

The Funnies

By Chris Martin

The funny stuff I find online

Happy Asian Woman

By Alice Chen

Helping Asian-American Women Find More Joy in Love, Work and Life

The Liberated Sheep

By Deborah Gregory

Poetry, dreams and archetypes; mythology, psychology and the soul - these are the threads I have been following throughout my life and will weave into my newsletter.

Deborah's writing speaks. She's become one of my favorite poets and people in this space.

- Lani V. Cox

The Best of Intentions with Sarah Best

British writer, educator and psychologist based in Asia. Sharing essays, photography, and occasional humour.

Reading Sarah is like connecting with a lovely friend. She's the best!

- Lani V. Cox

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

We're All Getting Older

By Lou Blaser

Conversations about who we are becoming as we get older.

Bespoke Traveler

Stories about place, identity, and culture that help you pursue your own purposeful adventures

Atreyee's writing is lush, warm, and complex like what you'd hope to find between the pages of a good book.

- Lani V. Cox

The Journey of an Immigrant's Dream

By Yi Xue

A personal journey of learning, growing, and defining her dream as an immigrant in America.

Enfant Terrible

By Remy Bazerque

Spleens, sins, and dad-related exhaustings from an award-winning writer/director, currently avoiding work on a screenplay.

Anne-Julia Price

Dipping my pen into the realms of non-fiction, fiction, photography, and film, this food-prose-film-travel journal will twist and turn and coil and expel what it wants to bare. Forgive me, I know not what I do. See more at https://biscuitsbrioche.com.

Relevant Sense

By Shondra Bowie Riley

Intersectional reflections via poetry and essays, to cultivate understanding and connection.

Shondra's has gone through some exceptional circumstances, but her writing is completely down to earth. I truly hope we can meet one day in real life!

- Lani V. Cox

Unlocked: BIPOC Reads

By Locked In

Highlighting BIPOC writers and content creators, from the organizers of Locked In.