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The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

Colourful and useful mix of recommendations from around the world of newsletters.

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Frantic Panties

By WhiteFeather Hunter

WhiteFeather's philosophical ramblings. All things bioart, DIY bio, biotech philosophy, witchcraft, technofeminism, biomaterials, menstrual materiality, etc. More at whitefeatherhunter.ca (art projects) or uwa.academia.edu/WhiteFeatherHunter (papers).

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Better than a course in writing.

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Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

I never read this but I should because he is a generous genius and it makes me feel like a real writer just to have it in my mailbox.

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crop samples

By Laurie D. Graham

Poetry, green things, the great failed colonial experiment

The foraged color of poetry

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The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring utopian futures through long-form essays and collaborative print pamphlets. Join us to get the Manifesto!

This newsletter gently upends the publishing pyramid scheme in a search for ways of being a writer that actually gets paid a living wage. Elle Griffin comes from the perspective of a novelist writing stories sharing practical advice while uncovering a path to valuing art in an algorithmic era.

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Photos by Andrew Williamson

Reflections on the creative process by a full time photo+video person whose not a writer.

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Opening minds of all ages.

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THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Some of the most beautiful writing I have known.

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Water Stories by Melissa McGill

By melissa@melissamcgillstudio.com

I am an artist dedicated to engaging in change-making, impactful projects that engage local participation in unique, meaningful and creative water storytelling.

Did Someone Say Emoji?

By Jennifer Daniel

🌹| Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair | Blob Necromancer | Emoticon Lorax | 𓀟 𓀥 𓀠 𓀤 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣

Smart and funny and one of the controllers of the future of saying things in tiny ways.

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Ani’s Secret Files ❤️

By Ani Castillo

Hello my sweet friend, Welcome to my newsletter! Here I'm sharing some of the writing I do in my journals, some of the thinking I do in my head and some of the living I do in my life ☺️❤️

An author for humans. A drawer for the world.

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Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Mac’s Newsletter

By Mac Barnett

From the Desk of Mac Barnett

Liana’s Newsletter

By Liana Finck

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. www.lianafinck.com

Better than therapy. Also funny.

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