Substacks recommended by John Lovie

Recommended by John Lovie

When I dictated “Schedule weekly artist check-ins” into my phone, Siri heard Artist Chickens. Here you'll find stories, essays, and writing tips. Here is where artist chickens come home to roost.

Outstanding creative writing

- John Lovie

Fearless Green

By Rebecca Wisent

Owl in America || Notes from an American Environmentalist: chronicling the Trump years from an environmental lawyer’s perspective

The Life Boat

By Samantha Clark

Weekly letters from Orkney to keep your creativity afloat, sharing the art and books that help us stay buoyant. Subscriber co-working on Wednesdays. Climb aboard.

Samantha is a talented visual artist and author, and a fellow island dweller and lover of water.

- John Lovie

PeaceLinks

By Tara Penry

A monthly digest of online writings about peace and cooperation, with occasional essays on peace-related topics

Tara collects links to writing on peace, community, and cooperation, and shares them with us. I've discovered several wonderful writers through her generosity.

- John Lovie

The Practice of Life

By Maia Duerr

Life is the gift we are given. We open it with intention and practice. Inspiration for personal and collective liberation.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

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

Beautiful writing and voiceovers

- John Lovie

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

Thrilling serialized fiction (or is it?) from my neighboring island.

- John Lovie

15th Century Feminist

By 15thCenturyFeminist

Here we'll explore how medieval misogyny informs modern philosophy while uncovering the feminisms of the Middle Ages. No longer will the women of the Middle Ages be erased, minimized, or villainized.

Putting patriarchy and feminism in a thousand year context.

- John Lovie

Homecoming

By Julie Gabrielli

NatureStack journal, Building Hope essays, climate fiction, and my singing dog.

The Villager

By Tom Cox

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

Memoir Junkie Wannabe Author

By Claire

I'm writing my first book—it's a memoir. I'm using this Substack to share my experience and sometimes, life stuff. I write stories, tips, and review my favorite memoirs.

In addition to this publication about writing her memoir, Claire has another, Stories about my brother, about incarceration.

- John Lovie

Life Litter

By Jill

No brand, no message. What’s left

Great writing and voice overs about a pub, and so much more.

- John Lovie

Inner Workings

By Rachel Katz

Literary essays, published occasionally. On work culture, mothering, mysterious women’s diseases, and redefining success. Striving to deliver little nuggets of beauty and sparks of insight.

Insightful writing about the work and women's health.

- John Lovie

The Editing Spectrum

By Amanda B. Hinton

Strategically and creatively nurture your newsletter, one core theme at a time. Build momentum with insights, frameworks, data and a strategist in your inbox.

Amanda's an autistic editor. In addition to writing about her own experiences in The Editing Spectrum, through The Spectrum Spotlight she's offering a platform to other neurodivergent writers to explore how their "special interests" fuel their careers and writing. In Ask an Editor, she offers great advice. And as if that wasn't enough, she's generous in comments and notes.

- John Lovie

Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

By Meg Conley

Hi! I’m Meg Conley. I write about the intersection of capitalism, culture and care work at Pocket Observatory. Select essays are republished to Substack. If you'd like to receive my official (FREE) newsletter, subscribe here + I'll take care of the rest!

Brave writing on important topics

- John Lovie

The Water Droplet

By Steve Shikaze

A newsletter about interesting and important issues related to water.

Interesting water issues around the world.

- John Lovie

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.

Jane's eleven questions for her guests allow them to open up in beautiful ways. There is always something to learn.

- John Lovie

Seeing Things

By Liza Donnelly

New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, more...

Jen Writes Again

By Jen🧚

writings about life's little wonders

Journal of the Plague Years

By Susan Zakin

Journal of the Plague Years publishes high-octane writers forging a New New Journalism for our troubled times. Find the Hunter Thompsons and Gay Taleses for our era.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Berkana

By Swarnali Mukherjee

Built with a soft burning passion for obscure places, people, folklores, and cultural epiphanies

Swarnali Mukherjee describes herself as a writer, creator, and designer and consciousness researcher. She is an exquisite writer and one of the most compassionate people l know.

- John Lovie

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

Beautiful writing, photography, and wisdom.

- John Lovie

SoCal Water Wars

By John Earl

A local and reliable source of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting about SoCal water wars

Reporting on Southern California water issues

- John Lovie

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

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

Antonia writes beautifully and thoughtfully on nature, walking, and the problems of private property. She's also generous with her time and thoughts in comments. I enjoy the conversation and look forward to every post.

- John Lovie

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

The Turnstone

By Melanie Newfield

I believe that the science behind important issues should be accessible to everyone

Melanie publishes well researched and written stories explaining the science behind some of the big issues of the day, from climate to pandemics. I enjoy reading the New Zealand perspective on issues we also face in my home state of Washington in the US and exchanging thoughts and ideas in comments and notes.

- John Lovie

What Do We Do Now That We're Here?

By Rosie Spinks

A Substack-featured newsletter about how to live a meaningful life in a chaotic, unstable world. I'm trying to find the place between denial and nihilism, and set up a life there.