Substacks recommended by Amy Gabrielle

Recommended by Amy Gabrielle

Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.

Lifelong stripper, former English professor, and forever writer telling true stories of my tumultuous life.

Dr. Byron is the real deal. Truth-teller, Inspiration-giver, Motivation maker, Dream-fulfiller, and more good stuff I can't articulate at the moment. She's a scholar and pop culture wizard. You want to learn the art of story craft? Check. You want to learn the art of strip craft? Double check. You want to learn how to strive for excellence while juggling chainsaws? She can probably do that too but I don't know why you'd want to. Subscribe to Tumultuous True Stories and thank me later.

- Amy Gabrielle

Estelle Erasmus/Writing That Gets Noticed

How to find your voice, become a better storyteller, and get published. Paid subscribers receive exclusive craft breakdowns, publication strategy, and direct interaction.

Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!

By Caroline Moss

Products we love and where you can buy them. Plus exclusive discounts, really good sales, and some of the best gift guides around.

Love Story

By Laura McKowen

Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

By Jeannine

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Never let them steal your joy!

The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

Writer, interrupted

By Mary Roblyn

Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. I got interrupted, but I didn't give up. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.

Proof of Life with Jen Pastiloff

By Jennifer Pastiloff

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.

Jen is awesome! She just did a TEDx talk and her book Proof of Life is coming out in July (pre order now!).

- Amy Gabrielle

TCF Emails

By Tracy Clark-Flory

A newsletter on sex, pop culture, and feminism.

The Publishing Spectrum

By Amanda Bray

Where writers get the tools to become publishers. Strategic essays, Substack audience data you can't get anywhere else and the editorial honesty to use it well.

Knowingless

By Aella

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

Skylar Liberty Rose

Anti-aging culture is a distraction. I write about aging, midlife, and what women gain when we stop buying into the lie.

Let The Words Fall Out

By Mesa Fama

I believe that words can be bridges bringing us to one another. If you're like me and like to dig deeper into ourselves, go beyond the surface of things, and think about our place in all of this, then you'll find a home here.

The Firebrand Project

By Shane Yirak

Live geopolitical briefings, receipts-first investigations, and OSINT methods and resources for citizen and independent reporters.

I Dissent

By Mesa Fama

My thoughts on politics are rooted in a deep love for humanity and the endless belief that a better world is possible.

the braid

By Rebecca Woolf

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

The internet’s most intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers—get an in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

Consume, The Blog

By NJ Fiction

A Caribbean woman rewriting the world through (speculative) fiction and opinion pieces. Fiction, food, and ramblings galore.

'Midlifin' it,' with Anniki Sommerville

This is where I write features and stories about midlife. I'm a freelance journalist and writer for Good Housekeeping, I Paper and Daily Mail and regularly write about relationships, parenting, menopause, work and all the other stuff women deal with.

Jane Sez...

By Jane Deegan

I am a middle-aged woman who is navigating mid-life challenges. I am also a wife, a mother of a teen, a pet mom, a small business owner and a writer in my soul.

Annette's Wanderings

By Annette Marquis

Family secrets, women’s & LGBTQ lives, and resistance in two serialized memoirs: "Living Into the Truth" and "Accidental Mentors," and an additional newsletter, "Wandering WordsWomen," from author & wanderer, Annette Marquis, owner of WordsWomen Press.

Adventures In "Journalism" by Sari Botton

Highlights and lowlights* (*mostly lowlights) from one Gen X lady writer's rather circuitous career path.

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.

Subject to Change with Emily McDowell

Cautionary tales, unsolicited advice, and notes on living in liminal space, evolution, and returning to yourself.

Emily is what I call a Renaissance woman. She's not only an amazing artist, writer, business woman, and teacher, she's a genuinely kind person. I'm so glad I found her!

- Amy Gabrielle

Accept•Adapt•Applaud

By Joan Stommen@substack

Bits and pieces of life as we grow along

Joan is an exceptional writer. I loved her story about working with her husband on the newspaper in Aruba, so rich in feeling and detail. She's also just a cool, progressive woman who I admire. I really look forward to reading her future stories.

- Amy Gabrielle

John Fugelsang

My personal Substack

India Arie The Soulbird Perch

The Healing Power of Music. Guided Meditations. Sound Healing, Truth Telling. Random thoughts.

Basically I'm magic

By Ricki Lake

Chances are you grew up with me.

Emily Bingham

Spiritual Life Coach on a mission to help you embrace death so you can live a radically ALIVE life. Subscribe to explore death as medicine -- the release, the alchemy and rebirth essential for your soul’s evolution.

A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Necessary Salt by Joy Sullivan

What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art. Subscribe to receive a link to my free poetry workshop in your inbox!

Heart Chambers

By Shaista Ali

Musings on inner truths, unique fears we'll find to be universal. Let's recognize ourselves in one another. Our Heart Chambers. Welcome.

Gryphon Quill

By Renee Fountain

Insight & observations on all things writing and publishing from a publishing industry veteran, current NYC agent, & developmental editor.

Midstack

By Jessica Smock

A membership community for midlife women who want to write, connect, and grow on Substack, from the editors of Midstory Magazine.

All things midlife all the time. What more could I want?

- Amy Gabrielle

The.Ink

By The Ink

A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas

The Parnas Perspective

By Aaron Parnas

Providing you with the Gen Z perspective on all the issues in the news.

Clover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels

By Clover Stroud on The Way Life Feels

I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity

Wild Lion*esses Pride by Jay

🏳️‍🌈 Exploring resilience, self-compassion, and the beauty of transformation. Writing on belonging, overcoming adversity, and the wisdom found in vulnerability and authenticity.

Persona Non Propria

By Clancy Steadwell

Pseudonymous contemporary fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Essays on themes relating to the fiction.

Audacious Creative Lives

By Anne Boyd

Inspiration for living boldly and more creatively

Summer of Men

By Hannah Sward ~ Summer of Men

After 6 years of no sex, a 50-year-old single woman loads up the dating apps in search of a reliable summer lover, these are her encounters and musings.

🌻 A Year of Mental Health

By ✏️ Chris Guillebeau

An experiment in purposeful productivity, all through the lens of mental health and wellbeing. 💚

150 Word Reviews

By John DeVore

Opinions on new & classic movies. Mercifully Short™ + longer essays full of feelings.

Maya C. Popa

Writing on the inner conditions of sustainable creative work

The Future Widow

By Anne

A future widow writes about love and loss, ambiguous grief, getting through the day, and making it bearable/livable/joyous.

In "The Future Widow." Anne writes about her husband's untreatable and incurable degenerative brain disease. She grapples with anticipatory grief, while at the same time remaining in the present, making new memories together. Poignant and funny, Anne gets to the heart of what it means to love someone and know you are going to lose them. She also has wonderful advice for those who want to support a griever, but don't know what to say or do. Invaluable information.

- Amy Gabrielle

Raising Myles

By Marc Typo

A first-time dad writes letters to his newborn son, Myles, every Monday, sharing the joy he didn't experience himself with the world. Inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me."

Touching the Elephant

By Kendall Lamb

Nature writing, memoir, poetry and prose from a meaning-making marine biologist.

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Absolute Pleasure

Recommended by Amy Gabrielle