Substacks recommended by Aimee Liu

Recommended by Aimee Liu

As a community, we capture, preserve, and share our stories in every conceivable form. We inspire and encourage one another in posts, events, and conversations.

Projectkin is a terrific hub and resource for all of us who write about family heritage and lore!

- Aimee Liu

Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

Intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers. An in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

Dianne Jacob's Newsletter

A newsletter for food writers. Come on in!

Foodies! Cooks! Gourmands! This pro newsletter on everything food is for you.

- Aimee Liu

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.

Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D.

By Julene Tegerstrand

Human Is A Verb is a space to explore how bearing God's image invites us to live, lead, and become fully human in a world increasingly shaped by disruption.

Behind the Chapters

By Connie Briscoe

A New York Times bestselling novelist's candid look at the creative process, storytelling craft, and publishing.

Connie Briscoe is a pro! If you want to know what it's like to be a prolific bestselling author, this stack's for you!

- Aimee Liu

The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.

Lit Mag News

By Becky Tuch

Latest News in Lit Mag Publishing

Dispatches From Stricklandia

By Mike Strickland

Musings about speculative fiction and writing craft, along with occasional publication news, from award-winning author Mike Strickland.

I love Michael Strickland's Dispatches-- especially his MFAdventure series as he gets his low-residency MFA! Wonderful idea!

- Aimee Liu

How to Glow in the Dark

By Neon Literary

Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.

The Resilient Creative

By Jen Knox

Where craft meets consciousness, untold stories are reawakened, and creative resilience clarifies our confusing world.

Smart insights into the challenges of creativity from a seasoned pro.

- Aimee Liu

Sub Club

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

Pen on Fire

By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Mostly about writing and the business of writing but sometimes about other things that relate.

Barbara's long history of interviewing writers on air makes her a goldmine of info, insight, and just plain great stories about and for writers. It's great to welcome her to Substack!

- Aimee Liu

Writing Life by Marcia Meier

Marcia writes about life, love, family, politics, contemporary events, writing, books, and the media. Author of an award-winning memoir, Face, and other books, essays, and nonfiction articles. Mom, animal lover, believer in truth and integrity.

Writing Magic

By Alice Hoffman

with Alice Hoffman

The Path to Creativity: The Practice of Seeing

By Charity Hume

In The Path to Creativity Substack, I share my photographs and the reflections they sometimes inspire. I hope this space will offer moments of inspiration and refuge as you explore your own creative path.

Photographs, reflections, inspiration from a true creative!

- Aimee Liu

Travels with Mona Gable

I've always had a bad case of wanderlust. I hope you'll follow along!

The Writer's Guide

By Writer's Guide by Robert Roy Britt

How-to guides and essays offering advice on the fundamentals and secret sauce of successful nonfiction writing for a general audience, plus Why it Works critiques of well-crafted stories.

Lily Pond

A first-generation immigrant reflects on cross-cultural issues, inter-generational trauma, and what it means to be whole and belong in this world.

Louisa Wah is taking us on an unforgettable journey of immigration from China through Hong Kong to life beyond. This is an important story filled with love and loss along a hard path to forgiveness and understanding.

- Aimee Liu

No More Going High with Johnny

By Johnny Palmadessa

Your daily rundown of the good, the bad, and everything you need to know in politics.

Disordered Chronicles

By Patricia J Wentzel

I write about the world of behavioral health with an emphasis on serious mental illness. I write as a consumer living with bipolar disorder, as a family member, and as a support group facilitator and advocate.

The Daily Elm

By Ariella Elm

The optimism you need to fight from a place of hope rather than catatonic fear. Because, our voices are our superpower, when we use them!

Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz

Authentic words for everyone trying to figure out the best way to be human.

The (Mostly) Unplanned Life-Kerry Madden-Lunsford

By The (Mostly)Unplanned Life-Kerry Madden-Lunsford

Story-catching and the day to day

Kerry turns the daily stories of life into tales on the page.

- Aimee Liu

5AM StoryTalk

By Cole Haddon

A community of artists and art lovers trying to make sense of the 21st century together - through the lens of film, TV, music, novels, and fine art.

OC Book Blog

By Randy Kraft the OC Book Blogger

Recommended reading for avid readers and fiction lovers.

The Transgender Therapist

By Sieran Lane

Thought-provoking stories from a gay, transgender writer who is also a psychotherapist. Deepen your understanding of yourself and your relationships. Find fulfilment and happiness in your life, even when the world seems against you.

Important perspective, valuable insight, compelling stories and refreshing ways of looking at the world! Thank you, Sieran.

- Aimee Liu

Views Through a Policy Prism

By Dana Dolan

See beyond the headlines. The Real-Time MSF Canvas applied to what’s happening today — for analysts, wonks, and the civically obsessed.

Dana's presentation of politics and policy through the prism of frameworks is essential to understanding the world today. It's also an essential tool for creative writers struggling to create narratives about our world. The frameworks of politics and the frameworks of stories go hand in hand.

- Aimee Liu

Dear Democracy

By Katy Dalgleish

Dear Democracy, You need us for your success. Sincerely, Public Schools

Man-pleasing Recipes

By Kitty Sheehan

Join me on a trip through vintage Seventeen magazines to review the male gaze that shaped our self-images through advertising.

On Substack

By Substack Team

Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack.

For writers who publish on Substack, this is a vital source of intel on navigating the platform growing your Stack.

- Aimee Liu

When the Page Remembers

By Mike Keenan

Welcome to When the Page Remembers—a space where memory lingers, silence speaks, and poetry emerges from the shadows of small, forgotten things.

Poetry takes shape from daily life.

- Aimee Liu

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

By Gloria Horton-Young

This is my playground: rules rewritten daily.

Hello, Writer!

By Linda Caroll

A place for beautiful words, gentle humanity and people who love the art of writing

Flower Child

By Rosana Francescato

Perspectives of a Flower Child (generation between Boomers and Gen X) on culture, climate, commas, and life's persistent questions.

Immigrant Strong by Vesna Jaksic Lowe

By vesna jaksic lowe

Writing by—and children of—immigrants and refugees. The struggles, the triumphs, and the quirks.

Pine State Publicity

By Cassie Mannes Murray

Pine State is a newsletter that offers chatter on publishing, DIY publicity advice, and as much fun as the Hokey Pokey for writers & readers by Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity

Ask An Author

By Kate Broad

GREENWICH is now available from St. Martin's Press! People Magazine Best New Book | Amazon Editor's Pick | Vanity Fair Summer Read. Answering questions from authors at all stages of writing, publishing, and hand-wringing.

WelcomeStack

By The Welcome Party

We’re a community of Democrats focused on winning majorities, reducing polarization, and governing well. We elect, convene, and amplify bold, pragmatic leaders who represent the middle.

The Enthusiast by Tom Teicholz

A Culture Maven Reports from Tommywood

Writing Family Histories

By Sarah Einstein

my writing to recover lost family history, with prompts so you can, too.

Goal: beautiful lyric memoir writing with a deep dive into family history. How do we do that? Follow this journey.

- Aimee Liu

The Shitshow Observed

A MIGHTY BLAZE

By A Mighty Blaze

Online author platform run by writers, dedicated to bringing you new publications, and author interviews and protecting the 4th Estate.

Inspiration and Magic with Tammy L Evans

By Tammy Evans

A newsletter about the inspiring words that create magic in our lives.

Bring Out Your Dead

By Ingrid Wagner Walsh

If you are interested in burning it all down and building back better, BOYD covers the social, cultural, political, and nonsensical with an unapologetic feminist worldview.

Queer People Talking

By Joshua Irving Gershick

I share the perspectives of everyday Queerfolk - where we've been, what we see and how we meet the moment.

Beyond Bloomsbury

By Victoria K. Walker

An ongoing anthology of historical artist and writer biographies and curated gallery and library collections.

Rooting Around

By Lisa Rogak

A New York Times bestselling biographer turns the lens on herself.

Lisa is a journalistic pro and superior biographer! It's a pleasure to "root around" in writing with her.

- Aimee Liu

Anthony Christian

Focused on narrative, messaging, and cutting through the noise. Writing what leaders won’t say, and what people need to hear.