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Recommended by Elizabeth Bobrick

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Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

My living room is the world. Pull up a chair.

Everyone loves Holly's newsletter. Beautiful, funny, moving stories.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

SmallStack Library

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.

If you're a writer and you don't read Writing on the Dark, get to it. Find terrific prompts, the best advice about writing, and a warm, welcoming community.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

if nobody speaks of remarkable things

By Emily Flannery

get in loser, we're noticing everything

Drawing Links

By Edith Zimmerman

Journal comics by Edith Zimmerman.

Unmentionables

By Juliane

Airing dirty laundry in public. I write about things that scare the shit out of me, imaginary friends, stuff I've done that makes me want to crawl in a hole, unexpectedly beautiful interactions, and inappropriately funny things.

Rootsie

By Rita Ott Ramstad

Dispatches from a small, creative life

Another of my very favorite personal essayists here on Substack.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Reading 20th-century fiction and exploring women’s history through an intellectual dining club, 1890-1914

Words from a Prisoner

By Devin A. Giordano

Words from a Prisoner offers reporting and reflection from inside prison on policy, mental health, and the lived realities of incarceration.

What if We Live?

By Joanne Henry

I grew up with the worry of "what if we die!" and how to avoid it. Risk was everywhere! I'm more hopeful now, but when world or personal events bring me down, I try to ask -- but what if we Live??!

State of Wonder

By Constance Ford

A newsletter about visions, transformation, and writing.

Her serialized memoir of a soul-stifling marriage will have you on the edge of your seat.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Melt With Me

By Paul Crenshaw

Essays on kindness, pop culture, and occasionally poop. Cancer survivor x2. Father of awesome daughters. Four-time Best American Essayist.

Elegant and elegaic. I never skip over this one.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

Intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers. An in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

Read just one of Jane's beautiful personal essays and you'll be glad you did.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Anne of Green Places

By Anne Thomas

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - recently left the French Alps to be an ecology professor in Utah. Place, history, ecology, art.

The natural world pictured in a way that speaks to the imagination and the soul.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

We Need A Black Woman In Charge

By Zuri Stevens

From Michelle Obama to Oprah Winfrey to Rihanna to Beyoncé, when Black women are in charge, the world is a much better place. We need more Black women in charge.

Personal Statements

By Irena Smith

Essays about people, places, things, and petty grievances.

Funny, smart, wise, touching - one of my very favorite Substacks.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Amazement Seeker by Rona Maynard

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

One of THE top personal essayists on Substack. Extraordinary, observant writing. I never miss it.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Beck and Call: Where Readers Meet Writers

By Christine Beck

This newsletter will offer insights on books and what writers can learn from them. Think of it as a book group on steroids!

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, a course: Write it!, The Writing Life, (Re)Making Love: a memoir (fully up now), Who by Fire: a novel (snippets), Cooking With Mary, Watercolors and story in Letters to My Granddaughter.

Mary is one of the finest first-person essayists on Substack. Moving, intelligent and open.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Inner Life

By Joshua Doležal

An open conversation about the life of the mind.

Contemplative essays about the self in the world.

- Elizabeth Bobrick

Mind, Body, Spirit, FOOD

By Nicki Sizemore

Recipes, interviews and inspiration to bring more intention, presence and freedom into the kitchen and beyond. Weekly new exclusive recipes, all gluten-free (but you'd never know it).

ADHD Academic

Amateur

Resist the Simple Narrative

By Becca Stanley

Resist the Simple Narrative is for anyone who is wishes they had a family motto growing up that allowed them to see the world around them (and themselves) as complicated, nuanced, beautiful and brutal all at once.

Ancient Rome, Modern Witch

By Serena S. Witzke

A history of witchcraft in ancient Greece and Rome with adaptations for the modern practicing witch.