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Let's explore how to navigate the world as a creative person, find new ways of seeing, and cultivate resilience both on and off the page.

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

spiritual practices for creative living.

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

A newsletter about the writerly life: what I've learned (and continue to learn) as a writer and editor, with a focus on the craft of creative writing.

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

A behind-the-scenes look at the business of books.

Getting real about life, writing, publishing, healing, and the more mysterious side of things.

Reflections on community, culture, and nature from central Vermont.

Latest News in Lit Mag Publishing

(Very) occasional feminist dispatches from the end of the world.

Home of Truth

cold takes on writing, embodiment, and the art of obsession

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.