On quitting a secure, well-paid job I love to start my own bookshop

Self-help for smart people.

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Bestselling novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub has a lot to say, and this is where to read it.

I’m Elizabeth Oldfield and I write about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times. Spirituality, poetry, plants.

Reporting on the absurd world of beauty culture. / “The newsletter the beauty industry fears.” - the Herald.

thoughts on the in-between

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Vittles is an online magazine based in the UK and India, publishing new food and culture writing.

Open and honest conversations about money for women, creatives, freelancers and more.

I’m a RHS Chelsea gold medallist and author sharing the simplest ways to garden. Join the community for weekly posts and chats, design guidance and gardening tips led by one of the UK's top garden designers.

An art historian exploring the intersections of art, motherhood, social and cultural history, and the feminine. Offering a space for creative reflection and the unfolding of self.

Arriving on the night of the full moon, this monthly newsletter brings you the latest news and musings on our nearest celestial neighbor.

African Myths and Folklore: Old and New

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Arts & Entertainment from Carson Ellis

Former industry insider and award-winning editor writing about and building a community for anyone on the messy, glorious edges of the book world. Ask me anything and I will answer honestly.

A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and a village newsletter. Book news and other personal updates at the top.

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Not really "about” salad. But salad is the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Recipes, yes—but mostly a way of paying attention.

Things I think about and have nowhere else to put

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. Books, work, wellbeing & creativity. Top literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" — The Times

New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

emotional messes & intimate conversations

Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

Writing, reading, music, cooking, procrastinating, flailing. And cat pics.

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

The Quiet Life is for people who love quiet, depth, and beauty, and is read in all 193 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Join us for art, ideas, consolations, and candlelight chats. You'll never be forced to do anything groupy.

A community for writers at every stage of their journey

On what it takes to live an examined life + book and cultural recommendations

Hinterland is a print and digital magazine dedicated to creative nonfiction. Follow us for creative writing tips, recommendations and updates about the magazine. Edited by Andrew Kenrick and Yin F. Lim.

A therapist's reflections on midlife identity, feminism, culture, and psychology.

judge mathis recaps + milf-on-milf romance

An ongoing series by artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols exploring journaling, notebook keeping, and the various designated spaces we create and keep for thinking and discovery, reflection and imagination.

a shapeshifting journal by Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of bone, The Terrible, THE HOW and THE CATCH!!!!

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

A weekly newsletter dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. Home of 24 Days of Making, Doing, and Being digital Advent calendar.

Imagine a Venn diagram with overlapping circles labeled: Medical Facts, Feminism, and Fire. You've arrived at their intersection.

The Haynes Manual of exploring Tarot. Less scarves and crystals - more rolling your sleeves up. More Miriam Margoyles than Mystic Meg.

Tips from the world's best note takers

The Familiar offers essays which, we hope, will encourage you to STA ET CONSIDERA MIRACULA - stand still and consider the wondrous things of the world.

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

A meditation on why we need creativity, inspiration, & beauty; now more than ever. Trying to honour those bright, fleeting moments that weave themselves into our days. Feeling my way towards tenderness through beauty. On one-another-ness; tenderness &

On wriggling through a creative life—with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

How to write narrative nonfiction books and podcasts, plus a place for all my work that won't be a book or a podcast.

Musings, poems and and the quest for an authenticity that feels great even if it looks weird. With a healthy dose of humor.

the big things. the small things. all of the things in between.