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Recommended by Sarah Leamy

Somewhere's Son

By John Sannaee

poems, reflections, and entanglements.

Kate’s Substack

By Kate Gale

My personal Substack

Lisa Metzgar

Author currently blogging, writing short stories, and querying a contemporary literary novel about the power of stories & secrets as a mother & daughter fight for their survival.

Elisa Keir Station5

Elisa Keir is a multi-disciplinary artist, practical mystic, and financial and business manager, blending her right-brained inventiveness with her left-brained pragmatism.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

CRAFT TALK

By Craft Talk

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.

SouthWest Writers News

SouthWest Writers is a nonprofit member organization.

Mini 1000

By Jami Attenberg

The miniature version of #1000wordsofsummer, tenth edition: August 15-17, 2025.

Miriam H. Monarres

Is a poet and a Doctoral student in Sociology from Slovenia. Her poetry has been published worldwide in literary magazines and anthologies. She is an editor of the literary magazine Literaven.com.

Daniel

KHÔRA

By Khôra

KHÔRA is a dynamic online arts space produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. Subscribe for full access to KHÔRA’s monthly newsletter and publication highlights.

Liza Blue Humorist

By lizabluehumorist@gmail.com

Humor, wit, wonder, wisdom. Curiosity and humor-driven essays about everyday life.

Stephen H. Foreman

By Stephen H Foreman: My Fields

My fields, my streams, my woods, my words My latest book, Home: A Love Story: https://bookshop.org/p/books/home-a-love-story-stephen-h-foreman/22816850?ean=9798992461329&next=t

Worth a read!

- Sarah Leamy

Third Thoughts

By Melissa Febos

cold takes on writing, embodiment, and the art of obsession

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.

Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

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

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

if not, Paris

By Samuél Lopez-Barrantes

a novelist sharing essays, tall tales & melodies from Paris

Mata Karen

Quick & Dirty Research

By Nancy J. Fagan

Thanks for joining me here where my focus is research. Quick and dirty. I love the sharing and trading of fact-finding paths, and learning new things about old things.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

A WRITING LIFE

By Robin Marie MacArthur

notes on craft, process, and living an artistic life

Connie May Fowler and Other Tall Tales

Writing is a journey . . . sometimes we need a vacation and sometimes we simply need to know we're not alone.

I just spent a weekend working with Connie and a small cohort, working out our own creative blocks and I'm inspired! She's a great mentor, so many good ideas and questions. Worth connecting with.

- Sarah Leamy

Hopefully Yours

By Connie Schultz

An ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life: Family, politics, books, teaching, writing, journalism - and dogs, always dogs. In my world, hope is a fact.