Substacks recommended by Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Recommended by Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Celebrate the beautiful reality of your dream life and business right here, right now. Updates from a slow-lived life on the Northumberland Coast, thoughtful tools to help enhance your creativity and wellbeing. 💫

Claire has knack for making complicated things simple which is so valuable. I love her slow lived podcasts from the coast of North East England most of all. ✨🐚💫

- Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Stamp Trails

By Dylan Waller

Exploring National Park Passport Stamps, National Trails, and the places, people and moments they intersect.

Pencil Pals

By Helen Stephens

Hi, it’s me Helen Stephens. This is a juicy chat between illustrator pals. I’ll be sharing stuff about making picture books that you might feel daft asking. When you sign up you’ll get the Illustrators Freebies. Yes-please-thank-you!

Wavy Thoughts

By Ren Riley

Hi, I'm Ren and I write about my wavy life as an autistic and ADHD person with a head full of bees. Come join me!

The Earth Sea Love Zine

By Sheree Mack

Nature Connection

SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB

By Social Media Escape Club

Break up 💔 with social media

The Purple Vale

By Stephanie Ascough

Folklore, fairy tales, nature, and writing with Stephanie Ascough, ND author of enchantments.

If you have a heart for fantasy and fairy tale you should be following author Stephanie Ascough.

- Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Meredith Anne White

By Meredith White

Meredith White is a Painter/Maker, Illustrator, and Writer. They orient around objects for the home, body, and spirit as a means of protection and love.

Curiosity Spot

By Louise Lucas

Tales from a neurodivergent therapist trying to curate a life that leads to balance not burnout.

Louise is a queer and neurodivergent therapist who writes about curating a life that works for you.

- Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Euphoria Quilt Project

By The Euphoria Quilt

a group quilt project all about gender-expansive joy

spencer's paradoxes

By spencer chang

I write about the paradoxes in my life, my human attempts to resolve them, and share my handmade explorations of my dreams of the internet

We need people like Spencer dreaming up new technologies, “Each of my projects starts from a dream of how the world could be different. First I dream, then I trace my fingers across its outlines. I test its structure and give it the chance to hold the weight of reality. That's how I make them real.” 💫📱

- Sarah Shotts (they/them)

Weird Girl

By phoebe taylor

Lessons, findings and feelings on culture and self from the weird girl at the back of the room.

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Mitchell's Newsletter

By Mitchell Volk

Weekly creative experiments and inspiration from a designer, teacher, and dad. Zines, animations, prints, and comics.

The Wild and the Quiet

By Susan Earlam

Sharing what keeps this horror author up at night.

Shit & Love

By David Venus

Sitting in a circle at a yoga workshop, we all had to share “our truth.” Well, here I am, still saying it. If you’re wrestling with your own, I’d be glad to have you by my side. Together, we’ll make space for both love and the shit — Heaven and Earth.

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

The Comfort Chronicles

By Stephi Blackwell

All things COMFORT - mainly food, the odd activity & life update, a few resources & recommendations... a celebration of life's simple pleasures.

The Museum Gaze with Marina Gross-Hoy

A newsletter that explores what looking at artwork can teach us about seeing the art of our ordinary lives // from Marina Gross-Hoy, writer and Museum Studies PhD candidate

Jason Denzel Writing Updates

Subscribe now to get Jason Denzel's writing updates, or to learn about his upcoming public appearances. Registering will get you instant access to "The Nameless Saint", a short story set in the world of The Mystic Trilogy.

James’s Substack

By James Winestock

My personal Substack

the tiny little high five

By Jocelyn Mathewes

A studio journal about creative process, community-building, and compelling stories/artworks that inspire.

Yoga For Tired People

By Jo

Get one fun, easy to follow session every Monday that you can do as you are, no need to change your clothes or get out your mat. For when you need to chill the flip out and stretch but don't have the energy to get out your mat. Come chill out with us.

A Book Designer's Notebook

By Nathaniel Roy

Notes on book design and creative practice for writers, designers, and book lovers.

Sparkle on Substack

By Claire Venus ✨

Master Substack, write, build your DREAM business with joy! Global Top 10 Publication. Twice monthly space holding (co-working, workshops, teaching). Weekly chats, podcasts. A bespoke membership to help you stay creative and grow on Substack! 💫

Gentle and heart centered Substack mentorship from a creative and sensitive soul.

- Sarah Shotts (they/them)