Substacks recommended by Kimberly Warner

Recommended by Kimberly Warner

Veronika’s Substack : Wordcasts for the Symbiocene

Welcome to Symbiopædia! You are entering the wildwordwoods ~ a verbiophile zone to protect precious words from doublespeak, identity theft and verbicide. Wordcasts for the Symbiocene go public on Wild-Word-Wednesdays

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Chloe's essays are a provocative weaving together of two seemingly disparate things—the inevitable and birdsong. But upon reading, I'm instead left with a hushed, sacred reminder of their mysterious union.

- Kimberly Warner

In The Garden Of His Imagination

By David E. Perry

Where this photographer, storyteller shows and sometimes, tells...

The Curious Platypus

By Michael Edward

The curious musings of a curious creature

Eleanor’s Substack

By Eleanor Anstruther

Short stories, serialised fiction, essays and interviews.

THE EMPRESS

By The Empress

Exploring what it means to be a woman aging in the world while obsessively curating a less hellish peri/menopause... Between the mother & crone phases, there's a great deal of power in the messy middle—a dynamism that's highly generative and creative.

A hill and I

By Susie Mawhinney

Lover of words and blurry photography - writing from a hill in SW France - self sufficient chaos, memoir, field conversations and obscurities

FORD KNOWS

By Mr. Troy Ford

From Award-disdaining LGBTQ+ Author, Mystic & Kook, Mr. Troy Ford | Essays, stories & peculiar tidbits for lovers of reading, writing, & sundry curiosities - basically, a fruit basket with fur, most Mondays

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Slaking your fictional thirst, weekly.

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Ben's serialized fiction is deeply psychological, tragic, and redemptive. His characters, each in their own, unique ways, demonstrate how our histories bend and dictate the unfolding of the individual and the collective.

- Kimberly Warner

Things That Don't Suck

By Andrea Gibson

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

100 Stories

By Adam Nathan

Feel something.

Beyond the Comfort Zone with Renée Eli

By Renée Eli – Beyond the Comfort Zone

Complex times usher us beyond the pursuit of comfort to the depths of human becoming. These letters are meditative essays devoted to the unfolding of us.

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, all things literary, a course: Write it! How to get started, The Writing Life, Write it! course, (Re)Making Love: a memoir in serial chapters, Who by Fire: a novel in serial chapters

Mary begins life anew at sixty, offering a gutted, redemptive look at the many faces of love.

- Kimberly Warner

JENOVIA'S WEB

By Jenovia

The agony and ecstasy of life, love, and being human.

Stunning Sentences

By Nina Schuyler

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

gotham girl

By Alisa Kennedy Jones

gotham girl is a reader-supported newsletter for inquisitive readers from bestselling author Alisa Kennedy Jones. "One of America’s funniest, most singular voices on Substack" — The New York Times

Laugh out loud wit alongside wise woman insight and tips, Alisa Kennedy Jones always delivers.

- Kimberly Warner