Substacks recommended by Nick Winney

Recommended by Nick Winney

Where Fiction Lives!

Erica gathers together and encourages great writers and great writing in a way that selflessly supports us all. Support her right back!

- Nick Winney

Monster of the Week

By Jessica

Here there be monsters, the real life one and the ones imagined. This is a place for speculative fiction, the kind where horror meets heart.

Everyone needs a bit of monster in their lives. There are beasts here that you've never headr of before... expand your mental menagerie

- Nick Winney

Emerald City Ghosts

Emerald City Ghosts is a horror and paranormal fiction magazine inspired by life in the gloomy PNW.

THE FICTION DEALER

By The Fiction Dealer

Psst... wanna read a story?

Every day Miguel gives you an interesting prompt and a mental challenge, and every day you get to read 20 different little short stories - its great!

- Nick Winney

Vinny Reads

A newsletter providing reviews and commentary on works of literature, as well as essays, and occasional short fiction.

Andy Futuro

This probably isn't for you, but if it is you're going to want to subscribe right away. Science fiction, horror, and dirtbag literature.

Writes seriously inventive shit and is frequently hialriously funny. Not to be missed.

- Nick Winney

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

In February 2024 I committed to writing one story a month for a hundred months. This is the journey to May 2032. Join me Sunday for the stories, the backstories, and the sneak peeks.

The Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas

From literary fantasy author, Thaddeus Thomas: discover fiction and improve your prose style. "I've finally found the deep dive, line-level craft essays I've been craving." -- Gemorabilia

A very wise and generous man. His prose is perfection, his stories are to die for and he gives a hell of a lot to the community here - read and learn.

- Nick Winney

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Substack's biggest and brightest circus of single author short fiction from two-time Best of Detroit Best Author Nominee Jimmy Doom-- "One of this century's master storytellers"

His stories are brilliant and incessant. Some of them will stop you dead.

- Nick Winney

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack.

SUbmit yourself to the challenge; read amazing work by writers that know what theyre doing; share ideas amongst supportive artists. Its what Substack is all about!

- Nick Winney

Heavy is the Headset

By Will Boucher

Weird fiction for weirder times.

In A Different Place

By Evelyn K. Brunswick

A glimpse into the better worlds you have lost, starring a girl from a parallel world called Katrina

Rule 35

By will7christopher rule 35

the heart of darkness is our domain.

SUM FLUX

By Sandolore Sykes

Welcome to SUM FLUX, a repository of extraordinary prose.

AN explosive mix of talent - written and visual - be astounded every time!

- Nick Winney

Writing & Selling Stories with Angelique Fawns

The best PAYING NO-FEE open submission short story call list, plus FREE FICTION. Sundays: Market Information & Lists. Wednesdays: The Chronicles of Roxie Vega. Fridays: Free Reprint Fiction and why it sold!

DOOM FICTION

By William Pauley III

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

William writes stuff that its hard to categorise - gory, gleeful, imaginative, funny, endearing, revulsing envy-making - he's got something all of his own and you should experience it.

- Nick Winney

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Stunningly beautiful prose which will make you think about what is important, and read in a restful sublime voice to make every Sunday morning a delight

- Nick Winney

The Midnight Vault

By J. Curtis

Unlocking worlds of sci-fi, horror, and the unknown.

A superb collaborative call, full of nostalgia. Drawing out the creative threads of the weird, macabre and horrifying.

- Nick Winney

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

the velvet

By will seven christopher

the sleep that plays at death

A Bunch of Fives

By James Roderick Burns

Stories by James Roderick Burns

Mr Burns writes touching, strange, and down right weird stories and he writes them very well.

- Nick Winney

Entropic Absurdity

By Zani D

Random essays, prompts, and micro fiction from five ducks in a trenchcoat. Results may vary, viewer discretion is advised, please leave your message after the beep.

Zani is some kinda shamanic entity - you will wonder where her powers and prose come from - some of the most affecting personal stories and biting fiction you can hope to find. AND DUCKS... no, really. check 'em out.

- Nick Winney

Crockerfeller Tales

By A. R. Crocker

Welcome to where the ordinary world cracks. Here, I explore the shadowy corners of human nature, with the occasional romantic detour and a pirate adventure or two.

Andrew builds tension and suspense very effectively, and its always great to find another lover of horror!

- Nick Winney

Burnt Tongue

By Emil Ottoman

Fiction is Culture. No gods, just authors. Underground lit. Ritual crit. The gospel of the broken sentence, dissected by the "Official Unofficial Editor" of the Fiction tab.

The fingers of his fiction slide through your flesh, grip you and rattle your bones. His advice is worth your time to read.

- Nick Winney

Keye Martin

Things you write at the end

For poems so good they hurt. Ouch.

- Nick Winney

Drek Death and Doom

By Dylan Bosworth

The official newsletter of horror author Dylan Bosworth, owner of Drek Death and Doom Publishing

Just Wonderin'

By James Worth

Wondering, as in, does anybody know what's going on? Fiction, poetry, essays, I am wandering in the dark toward some future hope. I'd like to find you there.

James has so much talent its really quite unreasonable for the die to have been cast in this way. You simply must experience his stories and his dry laconic wit.

- Nick Winney

Velvet Guillotine

By Haly

News and opinions from the indigo heart of the orange ghetto. Fiction is Culture, FiC is Family.

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

By Gloria Horton-Young

Poet, painter, storyteller, rabblerouser–a tempest in red lipstick. Expect provocative opinions, spirited rants, and laughter. This is my playground: rules rewritten daily.

Gloria writes simply stunning poetry. She inhales the world and exhales in verse.

- Nick Winney

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

MEAT SANDWICH

By Drew Valdez

Hello everybody! This where we discuss the MEAT. Stories, prompts, and anything fiction.

Written Ward: From the Gap

By John

Exploring the gap between experience and understanding.

Mr Ward gathers interesting people who write interestingly, about interesting stuff and then they talk about it. It's great.

- Nick Winney

Von’s Substack

Letter exchanges, articles, and fiction that take God and His Law seriously. I post on an eclectic variety of subjects. I LOVE comments, especially well argued negative ones.

Loser’s Fiction

By Keith Long

To love is to lose. To write fiction is to speak truth.

Keith Long writes superb stories - there is no getting away from it...its coming for you....just beyond the light.

- Nick Winney

Something To Bury

By George Kalantzis

I liked him better drunk. - My ex-wife

Cicada Cult

By Aurelian Ashmore

Ritual Horror. Dark fables. Poetry. Words for the marked.

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

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

A fabulous world brought to life with fabulous prose.

- Nick Winney

Ferns of Columbo

By Jon T

Ferns of Columbo is a short fiction publication experimenting with themes of identity, transformation, power dynamics and survival through a speculative lens.

Jon T - He brews up wonderful infusions of mind bending brilliance - sweet enough, no need for milk or sugar. Good with a biscuit.

- Nick Winney

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Fiction, mostly.

Some of the things he writes make you go - where in God's name did he get that from. He's got threads into the abyss and he pulls things out from it.

- Nick Winney

Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

The circus is here, and you forgot to lock your door: M.P. Fitzgerald writes dark-humored sci-fi for dream criminals.

Honeygloom

A forest witch's coven, home to 100% plant-based horror, black magic, Deadwater, and all the delights of Hell.

Yours, Inigo

By Inigo Laguda

A void scream with legs

The Curious Post

By Nico Harlakenden

Seeking submissions for revivified publication with limited, closely-monitored readership. 🧿

Age of Aquarius

By EJ Trask

Scary stories for grown ups.

Only Child Originals

By Garen Marie

Horror and dark stories inspired by fairy tales and folklore straight from the witch's oven with the occasional dash of green magic, tarot, and the terrible beauty of life.

SUM FLUX

Outlived the zine long enough to become something entirely different

Fictations by Moonlight

By Haly

Dangerous art. Fiction. Non-fiction. Auto-fiction.

D.W. Davison

Speculative fiction by Daniel W. Davison

Some very well written horror can be found slithering about here, just beyond the ring of light...

- Nick Winney

The Strangeness Kit

By A.P. Murphy

‘There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.’ -------- Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam

Ether Dreams

By Edith Bow

Ether Dreams is a publication where I write stream of consciousness prose with a pugilist minimalist style. It's a multi-genre publication. Somewhere St. Louis.

Because you will never read anything quite like this.

- Nick Winney

The Why & the Why Not

Recommended by Nick Winney