Substacks recommended by Victoria Waddle

Recommended by Victoria Waddle

A place to explore the way the short story works.

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

Find Your Center by Kate

By Kate Feinberg Robins

Essays on ballet, Pilates, and capoeira as centering practices.

Beyond the Whiteboard

By Katie Porter

Welcome! I've started this Substack account to share my more in depth thoughts about Congress, campaigns, and the issues that families across the country are facing. I hope you'll learn a thing or two.

Life With Riley

By Mary Camarillo

I write about life in Southern California with a 15 pound Flame Point Siamese guard cat and a ukulele strumming husband.

Sub Club

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

The Loss of a Lifetime

By Lynn Shattuck

Sibling loss

Letters from a Wanderer

By Emese-Réka

A weekly (most of the time) newsletter about travel and places, with a focus on spending time in nature and visiting historical and archaeological sites. Moments from the travels of a 50+ couple.

I love these stories of adventure and culture (it’s not travel advice!), especially those about the author’s many trips to Mayan ruins.

- Victoria Waddle

Before and After the Book Deal

By Courtney Maum

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

The Forever Workshop

New writing workshops from experienced instructors every month. Forever.

Helpful for writers working to find their readers.

- Victoria Waddle

STRONGWILLED

By Krispin Mayfield

Reclaiming autonomy and exploring the long-terms impacts of religious authoritarian parenting.

SubMakk

By Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Raising Her Voice

By Jo-Ann Finkelstein

Smart, story-rich writing by a psychologist on raising strong girls and navigating womanhood in a sexist world

Jansplaining

By Jan Harayda

A newsletter and community about books, the media, and more for smart readers

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

State of Wonder

By Constance Ford

A newsletter about visions, transformation, and writing. Currently, I'm focused on writing a serialized memoir about my former life as an Evangelical.

In looking to women fighting back against patriarchy, ex-evangelicals shouldn’t be missed. State of Wonder recounts Ford’s late-blooming coming of age—and it’s wonderful that she shares it with us!

- Victoria Waddle

Hallelujah Anyway

By Anne Lamott

Mostly WD-40 and duct tape

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Everything Is An Emergency

By Bess Stillman

I'm Bess Stillman: ER doctor, writer, recent widow to Jake Seliger, who died of SCC of the tongue, and soon-to-be Mom to Athena. I write about the challenges of being corporeal. Here you'll find essays on life, death, cancer, love, health & healthcare.

Austin Kleon

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

Lidija Nagulov - ArtDHD Substack

By Lidija P Nagulov

Thoughts on being an artist and an ADHD enjoyer simultaneously.

Jo’s Substack

By Jo Scott-Coe

My personal Substack

Books are my Love Language

By Kelly Turner

Unmitigated gushing about (mostly) contemporary fiction. Sometimes memoir. Sometimes nonfiction. Preference for scrappy narrators.

Chop Wood, Carry Water

By Jess Craven

This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants.

Adventures in Writing

By Allison K Williams

An intermittent postcard of travel, writing and wonder.

Great Books + Great Minds

By Diamond-Michael Scott

Great Books, Great Minds is a member-supported digital community with a mission of “Igniting a New World of Community, Connection, and Conversation, One Book at a Time