Substacks recommended by Elizabeth Aquino

Recommended by Elizabeth Aquino

My personal Substack

A community of love, humor & Possibility. I was waiting for someone to give me proof of my life’s worthiness. F*ck that! YOU ARE YOUR OWN PROOF OF LIFE. Here you'll find poetry, art, guest essays, weird ramblings, offerings & OPEN ARMS.

Cast Iron Head

By Elizabeth Westmark

I write to squeeze additional meaning out of my long life. When some writer friends told me about Substack, and I began to read, I felt at home. This is a spot for memoir on the fly and for sharing stories, if you're willing. Welcome.

Don't Make Me Stop This Car!

By Chris J. Rice

I grew up in a car. On the road with Mama and her carload of kids. It took everything I had to leave. Leaving made me who I am.

Chris's writing will blow your mind.

- Elizabeth Aquino

HmcH's ON THE LOOK-OUT

By Heather McHugh

50 years of teaching poetry and now I can’t stop looking at the world— in all its oddity—

Because everything she does is fantastic

- Elizabeth Aquino

FrizzLit

By Christopher Frizzelle

Exploring literature and art together.

Reasons to Gather

By Sarah Bowman

Local Savvy on Current Culture - Curated Weekly Itineraries in and Around LA

BiblioArcana

By Lindsey

Writing on books with a side of tarot.

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

This is heart work

Release McCracken

By Elizabeth McCracken

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

Because -- her books, her swimming.

- Elizabeth Aquino

To a Green Thought

By Garth Greenwell

Books, art, music, movies

So brilliant -- on so many levels -- about so many things.

- Elizabeth Aquino

bimblings

By Josie George

To bimble means to travel slowly. Here you will find the thoughts and truths that I have a way of remembering and forgetting again, written down as I Iearn, change, grow. Here you will find a different way of thinking and being as I lose and find myself.

Because it’s beautiful and honest

- Elizabeth Aquino

Resilience with Alexa Wilding

I write about how and why we keep going. Stories, meditations, and hard-won wisdom from my heart to yours.

Pig and farm report

By Rebecca Loudon

Transmitting the truth of small emperors and exploded planets one sentence at a time

Life among the trees

true stories or mostly true stories

The Loaf, with Tim Kreider

What you think about when you don't have to think about anything else

What Determination Looks Like.

By Dom

Welcome. You have entered a zone, a place where my mind has found an outlet. I can't say I'm a writer without writing, and this is where the practice takes place. Non-fiction. Fiction. Poetry.

Brazenface

By Tatiana Gallardo

Shameless. Saucy. And scared shitless. Brazenface is an illustrated newsletter about facing fear all around the world.

Entertaining, amusing, beautifully brazen

- Elizabeth Aquino

The Slow Take

By Heather Lanier

An occasional newsletter about the strange beauty of being human, from poet & essayist Heather Lanier.

Phenomenal writer and fellow parent to a child with differences

- Elizabeth Aquino

Shelf By Shelf

By Hunter Mclendon

A (mostly) weekly newsletter discussing the books I'm currently loving, tracking my National Book Award reading project, and giving casual, funny updates on life itself.

Being a Dad is Hard as F*ck

By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani

A weekly newsletter about how f*cking hard it is to be a dad.

Terrific writer — the perfect combination of sharp, funny and sweet.

- Elizabeth Aquino

Mad Woman

By Amanda Montei

Essays, conversations, and criticism on books, culture, and feminism. Also a new writing group for founding subscribers.

Mighty Fond of You

By Tanya Ward Goodman

Writing, recommendations and ramblings.

ZoëBakes Newsletter

By Zoe Francois

Professional baker, TV show host, author of Zoë Bakes Cakes and Zoë Bakes Cookies (coming soon!).

The Real Sarah Miller

A newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller.

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and the 30-Day Drawing Habit.

Design Mom

By Gabrielle Blair

A newsletter where we can be curious about everything.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

What To Read If

By Elizabeth

Where book lovers find their next great read.

I've been directed to some real jewels through this!

- Elizabeth Aquino

The Bittman Project

By Mark Bittman

A home for those who believe food is everything and should be treated that way. We celebrate the joy it brings us, but also focus on the very real challenges of making it sustainable and available for all.

You Have Left the Planned Route | Melissa Firman

Book reviews and recommendations, personal essays, political and cultural commentary, photos, and whatever else I feel is worth sharing.

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

I have learned so much from this tender, fierce, sharp and brilliant newsletter. Antonia makes me think, directs me to other writers and persons who make me think and otherwise is a kind of curator of brilliance, her own included.

- Elizabeth Aquino

Spark

By Elizabeth Marro

We examine life's questions through the lens of what we are reading and writing. You'll find essays, stories, book recs, interviews, and resources for readers and writers. Let's talk!

Spark is a wonderful place of beautiful curation: books, art, writing, thoughts.

- Elizabeth Aquino

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Gemini Mind 💫

By Kristi Thomas Boyce

Not for everybody but a hell of a good time.

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

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.

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

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

a newsletter

By Alison Roman

recipes, stories and unsolicited advice from alison roman

Book Post

By Ann Kjellberg

Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star

I'm looking forward to reading "Middlemarch" again with this group and love Mona Simpson's direction!

- Elizabeth Aquino