Substacks recommended by Laura La Sottile

Recommended by Laura La Sottile

Welcome to Cheryl Strayed's newsletter. Everything is free right now. The paid "Dear Sugar" newsletter is currently on hiatus.

It's all about what really counts and weaved with a magic wand.

- Laura La Sottile

The Feral Stack

By Summer Koester

A feral woman in Alaska makes sense of the world. Results vary.

You Have Left the Planned Route | Melissa Firman

Where books become waypoints and detours become destinations.

No Dikkering Around

By Scott Dikkers

The no-nonsense daily jolt for the writer, performer, and raconteur who wants to get things done. (May contain some nonsense.)

He's the medicine we all need!

- Laura La Sottile

Disjointed

By Hamish McKenzie (Disjointed)

Sometimes I feel like writing things, so this is where I write them.

for the writers...we matter

- Laura La Sottile

Tragedy Plus Time

By Elissa Bassist

An award-deserving newsletter about turning tragedy into comedy--with monthly generative writing sessions for paid subscribers and my crushes.

FLESH WORLD by Jessica DeFino

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

Jessica Defino is Joan of Arc come back to life! And you can't fuck with her. Plus, she's brilliant and an excellent writer.

- Laura La Sottile

A Fabulous Midlife Crisis

By Rosie Meleady (Author)

Irish author of fiction & humorous memoir about renovating a villa in Italy. I LOVE helping women follow dreams & have a fabulous midlife crisis like me. Here you will find; Writing advice. Humour. And a guide to having a Fabulous Midlife Crisis.

Changing The Channel with Kirsten Powers

New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers offers fresh thinking about how we can make big changes in our lives, communities and country.

Pass Along Songs

By Jena Ball

"Music is love looking for words." – Lawrence Durrell

Solidarity Tribune

By JM Heatherly

Solidarity Tribune is a leftist publication that amplifies voices with radical perspectives, challenges oppression, and works toward collective liberation. solidaritytribune.bsky.social

The Outsider's Cut

By Elizabeth Coleman

Weekly edits from a writer living abroad for 20+ years.

Al Bertini's Musings

It’s said that God is a comedian performing for an audience afraid to laugh. Life is a funny thing. We just don’t get the joke.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

New York Cartoons

By Jason Chatfield

A free cartoon in your inbox every week + live drawing videos with creative insights, along with hand-drawn stories that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in NYC is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Never let them steal your joy!

I love E. Jean Carroll, obviously a talented writer, and a lot of fun!!!

- Laura La Sottile

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

HEATED

By Emily Atkin

A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.

Excellent! Fighting for Mother Earth.

- Laura La Sottile

Samantha Bee

By Plan Bee

Plan Bee is my weekly newsletter and source for all hard-hitting insights on women's health, pop culture distractions, recipes, and blazers, of course.

David Whyte

Poems, essays and commentaries as well as insights from my Three Sundays Series.

PubStack Success

By Karen Cherry

Start, grow, and make an impact on Substack. Get one easy-to-follow, no-nonsense newsletter per week and grow without FOMO and overwhelm. By a writer who built a $26K+ publication that's not writing about writing.

Amy Ferris

Writer, warrior, worrier, Goddess, author, playwright, screenwriter, wife, friend, fur mom, passionate about humanity, ruckus maker. Fierce as fuck.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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

Input/Output

By Caitlin Kunkel

filling up our creative wells so we can draw from them

Sub Club

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

Whales in My Backyard

By Jena

"Whales in My Backyard" chronicles my adventures with animals and the natural world. My goal is to entertain, delight, and open doors to wonder - to remind us that we all have a vested interest in preserving and protecting life on this planet.

Whales in My Backyard, Jena Ball, a poetess of the natural world. A seer, like the owl, graceful and bold. A unique creative soul with deep inner wisdom that can change your view forever from way up above to down to deep below. Dare, and you shall find.

- Laura La Sottile

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

By Gloria Horton-Young

Poet, painter, storyteller, rabblerouser–a tempest in red lipstick. Expect provocative opinions, spirited rants, and laughter. This is my playground: rules rewritten daily.

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Yes on ROBERT!

- Laura La Sottile

The Wildling's Path

By Katrice Horsley

We live within stories and stories live within us. Here we start to deconstruct these narratives, so that we can reconnect with that true and vital part of ourselves - our Wildling Self.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz

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

The Lolo Report

We support Gavin Newsom (the MOST HANDSOME Governor in America) for President in 2028!

Process Porn (with Geeta Nadkarni)

By Geeta Nadkarni

Recovering overachiever cultivating consistency without self-exploitation. Writing books in public. Essays are my love language. Cats supervise.

Audacious Creative Lives

By Anne Boyd

Inspiration for living boldly and more creatively

tall tales from a short person

By Carole

adventure, travel, comedy, comment, coffee, art .... and wine (and its non-alcoholic alternative)

Jamie Cook Simon

Shaved Meats, Piled High

By Laura Lippman

Blatant self-promotion for my novels because I never want to have a real job again. But, hey, it's only monthly and it's free.

Animation Obsessive

Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.

Gorgeous Work!!!!

- Laura La Sottile

Small Stories with Laura Pashby

Searching for magic & meaning—notes from my writing desk & beyond. A space for seekers of everyday beauty. 💫

I beget wings and pause upon a sill of nature that soothes my soul.

- Laura La Sottile

Hot Feminism: Letters from South Carolina

By Emily Taylor

LGBTQ and women's rights in the South

Backstory Serial

By Mary L Trump

How three friends came together to write a romance novel

Michael Moore

I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.

This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin

All about fiction and creative non-fiction: writing it, reading it, teaching it and occasionally hating it

The Calm Creative

By Louise Stigell

Becoming a better creative, without burning out or going insane.

Louise is a beam.

- Laura La Sottile

rose-tinted

By ruby slade

insufferable tragic feminist echo chamber for hot people only !!

This is pure knowledge to pledge your new found wings!

- Laura La Sottile

Homo Imaginari

By James F. Richardson

popular social science thinking for curious folks.

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

Morgan OCailleigh

HYSTERICAL

By Elissa Bassist

HYSTERICAL is a newsletter about the book Hysterical, which is about how a woman’s voice develops (or doesn’t) in a culture where men talk and women should really keep it down.

A force of good with a power punch pf love

- Laura La Sottile

The Collection

By Hannah

Harvesting what really matters in great books. Self-development, psychology, morals and success stories

Hannah shares some solid and good advice! A fresh perspective on building self-esteem.

- Laura La Sottile