Substacks recommended by Joshua Lavender

Recommended by Joshua Lavender

A lifelong musician’s personal tour through the odd, beautiful corners of popular music.

Time-traveling to yesteryear in music with an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, eclectic DJ. Once, radio was great. It can be great again.

- Joshua Lavender

Commonplace Philosophy

By Jared Henderson

Philosophy for everyday life.

Insightful writing about philosophy and literature.

- Joshua Lavender

Fog Chaser

I write a new instrumental song every month and send it to you before anywhere else—join 7,900+ people turning to this music for focus, healing, and calm.

Atmospheric instrumental music.

- Joshua Lavender

STORY VOYAGER

By Claudia Befu

A written log of fiction, essays, and aphorisms exploring the future of life on Earth.

The Library

By J. M. Elliott

Check out all the best indie books published right here on Substack

One-stop shop to find all manner of serial fiction on Substack.

- Joshua Lavender

Send My Love to Anyone

By Kathryn Mockler

A newsletter on all things writing where Kathryn Mockler writes about the writing process & other troubles & invites guests to share their work.

A motley collection of stories, poems, book news, and resources for writers.

- Joshua Lavender

Stunning Sentences

By Nina Schuyler

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

Smart close-reading analyses of sentences, offering insights about why style matters.

- Joshua Lavender

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.

Cyberpunk, noir, and horror, blended in well-paced, often grisly serial novels.

- Joshua Lavender

ReidItWrite

By Johnathan Reid

Speculative prose and poetry on futures, worlds and human society. Minimal commentary on my author journey.

Sci-fi with imagination, verve, and style.

- Joshua Lavender

Trackless Wild with Janisse Ray

This is the place where the story gets wild.

Meditations on place and wildness from a master nature and environmental writer.

- Joshua Lavender

Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

My living room is the world. Pull up a chair.

Well-turned essays from a writer perpetually on the road.

- Joshua Lavender

Greyburne's

By Jeremy Harshman

Fantasy and science fiction. Serials and short stories. Thoughts on art, craft, writing, and survival. Home of 'Becoming P.T. Lyfantod,' and 'The Wizard Jenkins.'

Where the Wild Stories Are

By Thomas Wharton

Irreverent essays on writing, storytelling, creativity, nature, and art, by an award-winning Canadian writer. Join me in exploring stories worth living in.

Thoughtful reflections on writing (and otherwise) from an acclaimed novelist.

- Joshua Lavender

Poet to Poet

By Radha

On the process of writing and publishing poetry books.

A great variety of thoughts and viewpoints on writing and revising poems, assembling manuscripts, and submitting for publication. Impressive!

- Joshua Lavender

Medieval Musings

By Holly A Brown

Helping curious minds go from “I’ve heard of the Saxons” to “Now I get how it all fits together”, one relatable, richly-narrated story at a time.

A crossroads of fiction and medieval history.

- Joshua Lavender

Bellageist

By Derek James Kritzberg

Science Fiction shorts from the Bellageist universe. Humanity is split into two species by technology that transfers consciousness from flesh to machine. Also snarky reviews and occasionally a horror short.

Fool in the Woods

By Joshua Lavender

Fool in the Woods tells a story of personal seeking, queerness in the South, family estrangement, and life on the road. Expect misadventure and mayhem.

Poetry Unbound

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Open your world with poetry

Engrossing reflections on contemporary poetry.

- Joshua Lavender

Garratt's Garret

By From Steve Garratt

Welcome to my Garret - A Garret is an old-fashioned name for the room at the top of the house where the artist lives (once the Oort Cloud) - the new home for all my writing - A collection of Spec fiction that spans Sci-fi/ Fantasy/ Romance/ horror.

S.M. Garratt offers strange sci-fi stories with a deft touch.

- Joshua Lavender

What Kind of Magpie

By Kimberly Coburn

Sharing small things that catch the light. Where nature meets the handmade. Musings for the curious. “What is a recipe for sauerkraut doing in my notebook? What kind of magpie keeps this notebook?” - Joan Didion

Beautiful, poetic writing full of well-turned phrases, often about arts and crafts (not the usual suspects).

- Joshua Lavender

Past the Dragon

By Clifford Stumme

We're changing lives by learning about sci-fi/fantasy literature. Come for the essays and original stories. Stay for the memes.

Intriguing thoughts on fantasy literature.

- Joshua Lavender