Substacks recommended by Sal

Recommended by Sal

Ink Fire & Rebellion

A publication for those for who write in ink, burn with fire, and live with rebellion.

Andelman Unleashed

By David A. Andelman

Yesterday Today & Tomorrow

Language at work

By Diana

Your inner voice is either your bestie or your biggest hater. Let's make it your bestie. This isn't about toxic positivity or pretending everything's fine. This is about building genuine confidence from the inside out.

Stay Weird Press

By Rebecca Watson (ReBe)

A home for stories, poems, and essays that are absurd, tender, and a little sideways

The Word Merchant

By Stephen Heins

A Stephen Heins Recommendation

Rough Dialogues

By Tinah MB

From Human Rights to Digital Governance.

The Dude’s Substack

By Jonah Ashton

My personal Substack

Amelia Renee

My writings are rooted in emotion, faith, imagination, and restoration; I will help others awaken, heal, dream, and evolve. Visit my full blog: www.ameliarenee.com/blog

Now What

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

A newsletter that brings science and nuance to parenting advice and challenges fear-mongering, shame-inducing content.

PepeWrites

Poems & stories distilled from everyday wisdom. Hungry? Feast on these nuggets. Welcome and Indulge! ❤️ Death to the starving artist myth—https://buymeacoffee.com/pepewrites ☕️

Noctie's nest

By Nocturnemy 🌑

"Built of late-night thoughts and half-spoken dreams

The Teen Index

By Rozanna

17-year-old nerd building bridges between macro trends and microchips. I talk about economics and tech like my life depends on it. I speak English, Arabic, French, and Japanese, and currently debugging German. Expect charts, code, and occasional chaos!

The Orphanage HQ’s Substack

By The Orpanage HQ / Tara

The Orphanage. Not a literal place in theory, a threshold space for wayward creators, divergent channels, metaphysical muses and feral witness. I am re-claiming ritual & active curiousity as neccesary rebellion and refuge in the creative(s) journey.

Colours of Being

By Swan 🌈

Unfolding into the messy magnificence of being human.

Harshan

I have been wanting to craft stories from my experiences for quite sometime now. And never been serious enough to do it. Only when life started putting me into a corner are my instincts finally trying to break through. Here goes the Nair!

Succinctly sound in his writing. Overwhelming supportive in his reading of what others produce. Always present.

- Sal

Kry5tyn

By 🫶🫵Kry5tyn🖕🫵

Lmfao Get bent. Or stay. Shit's serious unless it aint. Smiles come but tears stain. Memories forgotten remembered once. Remembered nothings didn't exist.

My Three Cents

By M3cents

The Long Memo (TLM)

By William A. Finnegan

I wrote memos for senior government officials to make better policy decisions. Now I write them to help people like you understand our world.

Cae Rivas Writes

By Carlos M.

Some of my thoughts and feelings find their way into words. These are the ones that did. This is my catharsis.

Learn what a true loving father treasures in life

- Sal

Between Facts and Dreams

By Gabriela B.

Stories told in prose and verse

Joseph Miller

By Primordial Guide To Redemption

Aspiring horror writer.

Vita Sporca

Built from pain. Growing through it. This is where I write about trauma, pain, and the kind of resilience that doesn’t look pretty—but keeps you breathing. If you’ve ever been broken but refused to stay that way, you’ll feel at home here.

George Allen

We the people need to develop the conscience of our democracy or it will regress under AI machines without a conscience.

L.E. Mullin

By The Flight of The Condor: The Sunday Strips

Thoughts, reflections, and opinions on how to make comics. Also, home of The Flight of the Condor: The Sunday Strips.

The Cage

By Canary Vale

Ironically, the cage is the place I speak most freely.

MaDMan says

On a quest to Re-enchant ourselves. Exploring world and mind, searching for the link between Truth, Beauty and Good.

Fox and Feather

By Fox & Feather

Stories told under a tree by a girl and her fox.

SweetSweetHeart

Creative songwriting process, documenting creation of my new concept album.

E. A. Morales

By Extras

Great fictional storyteller with a vivid imagination and deadly with details that make reading his stories akin to watching a movie. Bring the popcorn.

- Sal

Smartwork

Weekly tips to help you focus, grow, and get things done.

IS IT PROPAGANDA?®

By Jerry B. Marchant

Political Analyst & Writer specializing in conflict zones, diplomacy, and multipolarity. B.A. International Studies/History (California), M.S. Politology, Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Fluent in English, French, and Russian.

A blog about jazz.

A twisted vale of venom and shadow, where metaphysics, dark spirituality, and the poison path meet under a Runelit sky. Come, and meet the shadows within.

Amanda Writes, Etc

By Amanda Izzo

A home for all of my literary publications, manic writings, and 2AM thoughts.

Guitar-ing

By Emma Harner

Emma Harner's collection of tutorials, tabs, demos, updates, and general music musings

Cloud Saved Thoughts

By Iris Rainwood

Documenting the journey as it unfolds

Plato's Fish-Trap: Ancient Philosophy and Science

By Doug Campbell

This is a Substack dedicated to ancient philosophy and science. New posts every Friday.

Saltwaters Pages is built on my unspoken sorrows and the tears that never fell, the ones that soaked silently into the pages of my diary. These aren’t just words. They’re carved from my flesh, soaked in love, grief, and pain of longing.

The Gene Pool

By gene weingarten

Humor. Outrageous discussions, surprising observations, live chats, polls, and the weekly Invitational humor contest (formerly The Washington Post's Style Invitational). Significant misanthropy tempered by a warm heart.

Olivia

I write from the places I wasn’t supposed to survive. This is my fire, my truth, my return.

dalyn.

By The Soul Level

Writer. Clairvoyant. Healer.

gail smith reynolds

I am a writer and performer. I aspire to five minutes of stand-up. I play honky-tonk piano. I aspire to busk.

Tracy L. Dalton, MDiv

Journaling through life with observations to make the world a better place.

Brenda

Reflections, ritual pages, and raw writing about sorrow, survival, and meaning. I’m not here to fix. Just to witness — and maybe leave a trail for others in the dark.

Liora Writes

Liora Writes is a space for raw, resonant writing: poetry, prose, and personal truth that cuts through the noise.

Kate Clark

Movement. Sound. Meditation. Writing grief stories. Dancing across the Highlands. Singing to the Beloved.

Lina

By Leen Voice

I’m not writing for you. To my middle school friend, Shahad, who was forced to get married at 16.

Ashes Of Love Poetry

This is the place for my darkest fantasy and my darkest truth to come together and blur until I can't tell which is which. In the form of poetry.

Mark Ruffalo

Actor

No need for introductions. This is The Hulk.

- Sal