Medicine, Mountains, & More

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

The unvarnished, naked truth about living, working, loving, moving, and surviving in a woman’s body. Winner of the 2025 Webby Award for Best Independent Publisher.

From Jocelyn Jane Cox, former competitive figure skater and coach. Author of forthcoming memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025) about skating, becoming a mother while losing her own, and performing through pain, both on and off the ice.

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For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Craft, process, and strategy -- with tips for getting your yes! Subscribe and get my Perfect Pitch template as a free download in your Welcome email.

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

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

A monthly newsletter for people who learn about themselves through others' stories. Our shared vulnerability connects us, creating opportunities for personal growth.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Children of Israel are never alone.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

My personal Substack

Writing craft author and journalist Jordan Rosenfeld invites you to enter the pause, a place of reflection and dissection of books, the world, and ourselves.

Because we all have days like this.

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

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.

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

Howls and whispers. Child loss. Suicide loss. Sharing stories, sad, funny, mundane and sometimes absurd. Like life.

holding tension between opposing ideas is good for your brain

Illuminating hope in uncertain times.

Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy and embracing the in-between. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, was published by Motina Books in February 2025.

Musings on writing, grief, widowhood and music, sometimes in support of my book.