Substacks recommended by Phillip Slater

Recommended by Phillip Slater

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Joint Custody

By Candy Downs

Essays about life, love, and living with my exes.

Candy is cool and funny. She’s also a great writer. This is all you need to know. Get subscribing.

- Phillip Slater

soft animal mind

By maddie rune🪰

warm-blooded words from the underbelly of being alive

Abbey's Road

By Abbey Wade

I’ll probably write about trauma a lot. But humor is my favorite coping mechanism and I’m a little psychic, so we’re all gonna be ok.

Beira's Bothy

By Anomie

A substack celebrating all things literary, be it articles, essays, fiction or poetry. Let it all out. Let’s grow together

Might be the best writer on here, certainly the best new writer. People with this much talent aren’t always that supportive of others. She is.

- Phillip Slater

The Sober Yogi

Ruth O'Reilly

Marcus Musick

Weekly satire and humor posts twice a week. Free to read, $5/month if you’re into bad decisions and decent writing.

Triple Threat - Built On Consistency

By Fred Szkoda

Acting - Trading - Parenting — frameworks, stories, and tools to help you show up when most people quit.

Pamala Vallarta

I am an actress, writer, costumer, and producer in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! I am married to the brilliant writer/director John Sheppard. We sold everything we owned in little Point Roberts, Washington and bought a waterfront condo in Marina Vallarta.

Unfettered Treacle

By Hieronymus Hawkes

Unfettered - adjective - released from physical or mental bonds; unrestrained Treacle - noun - contrived or unrestrained sentimentality Despite the name, mostly stuff about writing, the journey, the process and the whimsy, or lack there of, it entails.

Tits Up

By Rebecca Goodall

The fictions and foibles of an aging beer wench.

Mondayswife

Economist (PhD). I model macro-econ/financial phenomena into human behavior dynamics. Mapping the structural mechanics of relationships so you don't have to

PepeWrites

Poems & stories distilled from everyday wisdom. Hungry? Feast on these nuggets. Welcome and Indulge! ❤️ Death to the starving artist myth—https://buymeacoffee.com/pepewrites ☕️

The Light Within

By Laura Catanzano

Remember your inner light and find your always accessible peace within. Your thoughts do not define you, and I'm here to share my journey and my poetry with you as you remember who you are. I hope you find some light here.

The Drafting Dreamer

UK based poet, occasional muser on other things, proud owner of a big fat tartan ass

The Train to Titsville

By Kate Dalby

Celebrate life's absurdities here in Titsville. Subscription is free until I win the Nobel Prize for Literature, after which you're all dead to me.

Strung Out on Plenitudes

Acquired during a liminal period of provocative confusion, it is possible that this was all misreported.

page 178

By Wayne Exton

Every Friday: alternating reflective essays 🧠and quiet fiction ✍️about ordinary lives under pressure.

Moe_Ben

Here, I poke at tired business clichés and share whatever fresh angles I stumble on. No groundbreaking theories, just overlooked ideas. Not a guru with a blueprint, more like a friend holding up a mirror.

Liz

The Unwritten Self

By Rosy Singh

Weekly notes on rebuilding your inner world through quiet growth, embodied emotion, and transforming unspoken emotions into clarity.

Adhiyana Buddhism

By Nia Quinn🌿

The union of compassion and wisdom

The Queens Addiction

By The Queen’s Addiction

Bipolar, ADHD, Addict... How I'm starting over with these diagnoses at almost 40

Inspiring, courageous and authentic.

- Phillip Slater

#MyLifeAsMarsha

Aspiring writing at night, health policy and economics bod by day

Tom’s Substack

By Tom Newcomer

My personal Substack

Writing {unfiltered} by Lynn J. Broderick

Memoir-driven stories & unfiltered reflections on life’s most ordinary, beautiful & ridiculous moments. All served with a twist of humor.

Poet's Paradise

By Kayla Geter

An oasis for all who cherish poetry🏝️

Alex Cosgrove

Poetry and prose that blur boundaries. Alex Cosgrove writes with grit, emotion, and purpose—from a garage workshop to your soul.

Ashes & Alchemy

By Priya

For those who exist too much & feel too deeply. It’s where poetry & commentary collide to expose the ache and raw emotional truth of being human.

Lovesick

By Klara

Welcome to lov3sick! This is my newsletter where you’ll find my deepest thoughts and memories — you get to read my diary 💌

Wildwood Writer

By Virginia

Welcome to the place where my bones speak first. This is my Substack, where I’ll be laying poems down like open wounds and strange prayers—some polished, some still bleeding. Purchase my poetry books through the link in bio.

Veggies Reimagined Newsletter

A mad but sobering world of vegetables surviving the Anthropocene. Find out whether you are a wilting lettuce or more of an emotionally bruised tomato.

gail smith reynolds

I am a writer and performer. I aspire to five minutes of stand-up. I play honky-tonk piano. I aspire to busk.

T.B.Talks

By Tony Burkinshaw

Hi there. I’m a retired Harley St. Hypnotherapist, (and ex Chartered Financial Planner, Trainer, Coach & oddly, Brewer). Join my daily dive inside my head as I follow an unexpected journey chasing Enlightenment, Philosophy, Meditation & other mind stuff.

FOR SALE: Baby Shoes. Good Shit!

By Jay Wilcox

Hello, all! I retrieve writing prompts from far-off lands where men fear to tread. My work has been featured in diverse locales, such as right here, in the substack you are currently looking at.

The Neurospicy Space by a Caffeinated Millennial

By Rhalyn Morgenroth

I document the stories I live — the raw, tangled, and tender ones about being late-diagnosed and living a diverse life. I write about the messy wins, the hard truths, and the funny detours. But it’s not just my story. It’s our space that connects us.

Snark Floats

By Jenifer Jorgenson

Snark Floats is what happens when a Gen X voice finally snaps. My fiction stabs, my essays prod, and my brain leaks gloriously into your eyeballs. It’s not always pretty, but it’s always real. And usually kinda fun.

Losing My Son To Suicide; Hope Healing and Joy (HH & J)

By Esther Stanway-Williams

Grief writer, finding hope and purpose after losing a child to suicide

Easy Weezy

Aspiring psychologist using synesthesia to explore human connection across disciplines. Founder of Easy Rococo Community (X & Discord).🛠️Building BookQuest, a gamified reading companion that makes reading active. In crypto since 2021.

Cyn the Bougie Hippie

Existential spirals from the altar or the sobering up after party. 🖤

"In the beginning there is an end as in the end there is a beginning." My writings are observations on the human condition. Things people say and do. Questions about life and motivations. Often with endings that invite you to think.

How to Write for a Living

By David McIlroy

Writers should get paid for doing what they love. Subscribe now to get my FREE 7-day email course, Substack Launchpad.

Life-Quakes & Rebirth

By Marlana

A community-driven space for people who learned to stay quiet. Life-Quakes & Rebirth offers honest reflection, guided conversations, and shared storytelling, so you don't have to carry your life alone.✨

On The Train to Koh-Riley

By B Philippe

There's so much awesome stuff out there, haven't you seen it? Cool leaves, strange people, beautiful rocks... I'll write about it, let me share it with you.

A very talented and supportive writer. Relatively new here but I suspect they will achieve great success. I’m happy to recommend.

- Phillip Slater

Tom’s Inner World

A sensitive over-thinker trying to figure himself out in real time. Writing, podcasts, nonsense.

Ernie Lee

Ernie is a humorist, novelist, poet, songwriter, and satirist. His newsletter "The Prickley Pear" is moderated by his alter-ego Piso Mojado. Ernie's newsletter "The True-badour" won the 2018 APEX Award, (Awards for Publication Excellence.)

A fantastic writer and good person. Go check him out and subscribe if you like what you see.

- Phillip Slater

lamb to the slaughter

By em

blessed with a reckless stream of consciousness

LetishaWrites

By Intentionalliving

Hey I’m so glad you are joining this community. Life is all about choices and intentional living is about bringing back the focus on you in a highly distracting digitized world. “Remember it takes nothing to be kind”

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