Substacks recommended by Samantha Clark

Recommended by Samantha Clark

I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.

between two seas

By rebecca hooper

from an island tucked between the north sea and the atlantic, a weekly newsletter about life and death, land and sea, science, art, and finding joy.

FLOW : Letters from the moss

By Michela Griffith

The tranquility you need today. Evocations of wood and water from Scotland.

Michele's writing and imagery are always a timely and welcome reminder to simply come into the presence of the nature and the water around me.

- Samantha Clark

Into the Deep Woods

By James Roberts

Explorations in nature. Practices of the wild.

Beautiful writing and drawing that invites us to explore deep woods and windswept hilltops.

- Samantha Clark

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

Every post is a welcome reminder to be amazed and delighted by this remarkable world.

- Samantha Clark

Now We See

By Kieran Dodds

Light to your inbox. Revealing the artistic process through a lens, weekly.

Writing Home

By Dougald Hine

A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.

Deeply thoughtful writing about how to live through these times of climate emergency with humanity, compassion and wisdom.

- Samantha Clark

pod by pod

By Meg Bertera-Berwick

A monthly-ish series of notes on growing, place-making, land history, and reading.

Meg writes soulfully and thoughtfully about growing and gardening in a fast-changing climate, and how this connects us to our place, our histories and our vulnerable human bodies.

- Samantha Clark

Dreaming Awake

By Dr Rachel Newsome

Travels between worlds via the arts, culture, nature, spirituality & all things Jungian.

The Camont Journals with Kate Hill

By Kate Hill's Winter Words

The Camont Journals, published almost weekly, are based on a lifetime of French inspiration from the kitchen, garden, farms, and markets of Gascony and written at the Relais de Camont, my home and creative writer’s residency in Southwest France.

Pockets of Wind Resistance

Windblown missives from a Scottish writer, musician and storyteller. Curiosity and kindness. Moss and myth.

bimblings by Josie George

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

Seeing Clearly

By Kim Manley Ort

In 2021, I began posting on the topic of seeing clearly, with an emphasis on the place where you live. I’m currently on hiatus but the archive remains.

Kim's essays remind us of that paying clear attention brings close to gratitude and joy.

- Samantha Clark