Substacks recommended by Claire Venus ✨

Recommended by Claire Venus ✨

A global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes

A creative space where I share my journey as an artist and art tutor through art techniques and theory, guides on creating your own art, studio insights, clients artwork, student takeovers, gallery visits, plus much more.

The Bright Magazine

By The Bright Agency

Leading Literary, Illustration and Talent Agency founded in 2003. Home to the next generation of world-class artists, authors, and illustrators.

Zoe Lea

Trad-published thriller author going indie, sharing the honest, messy process of writing, self-publishing, and finding readers. For writers who love the craft but hate the hustle.

Happy Endings

By Keris Fox

Writing, reading, music, cooking, procrastinating, flailing. And cat pics.

Mountain Hideaway

By Blythe Edwards

Step into a safe, nourishing space to reconnect to your inner and outer seasons to gain clarity, self-discovery, and resilience.

The Light on the Sea

By Gillian Eilidh O'Mara

A newsletter from Gillian Eilidh O'Mara, Scottish artist, writer and children's book creator. Thoughts on the beauty in uncertainty.

Cosmic Owl

By Louise Edington

🌾 For those remembering what the world forgot. Astrology and the Esoteric as a living language of healing, sovereignty, and cosmic belonging. Weaving Cosmic Rhythm into Your Life (With stars as mirrors and myth as guide.)

My Studio - behind the scenes...

By Catherine Rayner Studio

Welcome to my studio...this is my 'blog' for those of you who would like to know more about my life as a children's illustrator & author, learn new things and peek inside corners of my studio nobody (apart from me!) has ever visited before...

Catherine is a super star illustrator with a poignant grasp on the personality and emotion behind the eyes of our favourite pets. Her Substack is such a warm and welcoming place to hang out. I love all the sneak peeks and the behind the scenes info too.

- Claire Venus ✨

Footnotes and Tangents

By Simon Haisell

Slow reads of great books. Book guides and a reading community to help you get more from the best stories.

Simon's community has been a welcome addition to our home in 2025. My husband has followed along with the War and Peace daily read-along and chat. If you are looking for a cosy reading group with a strong and wise leader and deep characters to examine, this is your place!

- Claire Venus ✨

Unstack Substack

By Kristi Keller 🇨🇦

I help fellow Substackers make the most of their time by unstacking all the back-end chores that come along with writing on this platform.

Quiet Growth Chronicles

By hannah bay

Exploring the art of an ordinary, well-lived creative life 𖥔 Weekly essays on building a quiet business with steadiness, simplicity, and care.

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

A smart new corner of the internet to talk fashion, gardens and feelings with the former editor-in-chief of ELLE & Cosmopolitan. Plus join my invite-only community. We're nice...I promise.

Creative, Inspired, ALIVE

By Evelyn Skye & Joanna Phoenix

Welcome to the creative collaboration of NYT bestselling novelist Evelyn Skye & creativity coach and writer Joanna Phoenix, who share heartfelt insights on storytelling, ambition, and growth. JOIN US—for kindness, curiosity, and community.

✍️ Make Writing Your Job

By Team

Land high-paying remote writing jobs, pitch calls, grants, residencies, and contests -- delivered straight to your inbox. Plus access our exclusive class library. ✨ New jobs posted 5x/week. Writers are getting hired every day — don’t miss out.

Digital Detox (13-17 July 2026) - by Claire Venus 💫

By Claire

Home of mini courses/ challenges on Substack. Next up - digital detox week!! Build with clarity & confidence so that you can earn sustainably, share your work with joy & build a publication that truly supports you & lights you up.

The Seed

By Kendall Marie Platt 🌱

The Seed: Gardening for busy women- because your garden should be a source of strength, not stress. Take small meaningful actions to grow your garden sanctuary, quiet your mind and reduce overwhelm- one plant at a time.

As I Was Saying with Poorna Bell

Social commentary and essays from career to mental wellbeing, capturing the general WTF of life and topical news, by award-winning author, former HuffPost Exec editor and lifter of heavy weights, Poorna Bell.

The Travelling Artist

By Jo Scott

An Artist travelling Europe and beyond, telling stories in my sketchbook and sticking my nose in other artists' studios

The Fashion Standup

By Vera Lúcia

a fashion studies newsletter, written by a designer, for insiders, students, and the curious.

A Considered Space

By Eleanor

Obsessively curated edits and recommendations for design lovers, plus unfiltered writing about life and home. Come on in!

Over the Influence

By Jo Piazza

A hilarious and often factual romp through motherhood, the world of social media, old-school media, publishing and whatever else catches our fancy.

Crazy Successful

By John Spencer Williams

Go behind the scenes with me as I write my book "Crazy Successful: Defy Conformity, Create The Extraordinary"

Leanne Catherine

Author of A Liberation — Awaken Your New Beginning With Human Design and upcoming book Why Women Struggle To Receive (2027). Writing about relationships, self-abandonment, emotional patterns, authenticity, Human Design, receiving, identity, & money.

Create Me Free

By Kathryn Vercillo

Exploring how health and circumstance impact creativity and all of the resilience and adaptations people can and do make in order to keep on creating in the best way possible!

Soft. Simple. Still.

By Soft. Simple. Still by Samantha Corrie

Soft Simple Still is a place where, like gentle butterflies that land upon your hand, soft words and meditations will land in your heart for healing, simplicity and stillness. Weaving earth based wisdom into simple living and self healing.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Stay ahead of the curve—with the leading Substack Growth Strategist, Sarah Fay.

Sarah's Substack workshops are BRILLIANT - her Substack knowledge is deep, considered and so generous. Join her community - don't pause, just get in there, I'll meet you there!!

- Claire Venus ✨

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.

Give A Sh*t

By Lara

A platform & monthly newsletter for community obsessed people who give a shit about the world 🌐 Join the #GAStalks community to connect with others & learn how to build profitable purpose led businesses with thriving communities

Midstack

By Jessica Smock

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

@jasmine’s substack

By Jasmine Sun

an anthropology of disruption 📍 essays on AI and Silicon Valley culture

Green Oranges by Julia Rose van Haren

By Julia Rose

Julia-Rose van Haren is an Australian lens-based artist, writer and mother. Her practice explores the body, ecological intimacy and queer feminist theory.

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A weekly newsletter about the intersection of creativity, art, and everyday life.

The Studio in the Margins

By Océane

A quiet creative community for people making art and writing alongside ordinary life — through shared studio hours, drawing practice, and seasonal reading.

Limitless with Haven Hall

Weekly essays on personal freedom, our unlimited potential and the journey to true aliveness. This space is not for the faint-hearted. It is made for the hungry and the curious. 🥀 Bring your cuppa and expect a little taboo.

Among the Wildflowers

By Paige Meredith Ray

Choosing to see creative sparks as wildflowers instead of weeds.

Earth and Verse

By Alix Klingenberg

Get out of your head and onto the page! Writing circles and creative prompts for poets, artists, and writers who are ready to take their practice to the next level.

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Mya's Substack

By Mya Nichol

My personal Substack

Sophia Amoruso

A newsletter about business from someone who built one to over $100M in revenue. But also a newsletter about my life, taste, point of view, and things that matter more than accolades.

Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth

A newsletter full of stories, ideas and inspiration for people who love houses

Female Owned: Small business without the hustle

By Astrid Bracke

The online place for small business owners and freelancers who refuse to hustle. Resources, strategies and community to empower and inspire you.

The Balanced Blonde

By Jordan Younger

Stream of consciousness on, well, everything. Book writing, spirituality, motherhood, influencing, peptides & wellness overall, being a (psychic) human. Can't wait to share it all xx

The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

Too Much by Nicola Washington

🌱 For writers who want ease, not overwhelm in your Instagram book marketing. Stay visible on Instagram and keep your audience growing, one simple step at a time.

The Conversation

By Antonia Taylor

Bringing your whole self to your marketing, business + creative life

Writers' Hour Magazine

By London Writers' Salon

A global writing contest and magazine from the team behind London Writers’ Salon. New contests each month, new prompts each Sunday. Subscribe to write with us!

Kakaozauber | Cacao Enchantment

By Laura Durban

HeArt and Craft of leadership and sacred facilitation with ceremonial cacao. {Für Liebhaber von zeremoniellem Kakao und alle, die wissen, dass Kakao uns hilft die Welt zu verändern}

How to Write for a Living

By David McIlroy

Writers should get paid for doing what they love. Subscribe now to get my FREE 7-day email course, Substack Launchpad.

Measured advice with lots of interesting content from David. ✨

- Claire Venus ✨

A-Mail

By Anna Codrea-Rado

A newsletter about nothing and everything.