musings on social media, sobriety, and really anything else I find interesting

Politics/spirituality, psychology/religion, psychedelics/climate, liberalism/ethics. By a rabbi/journalist, lawyer/meditation teacher.

Join me as I share a drawing a week for one year in an attempt to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it.

A sort of public diary of weekly drawings and musings by New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Sarah Akinterinwa

Dedicated to practice, study and small transformations.

graphic narrative non-fiction AKA illustrated personal essays AKA diary comix

This is heart work

Body Grief, Body Image, Chronic illness, Eating Disorder recovery, Disability

Creating a map of the world and our place in it.

“Consistently sharp and interesting” weekly dispatches on mysterious women’s diseases, work culture, mothering, and the struggle to stop yearning for wealth and power. From a chronically ill, ex-startup CEO searching for redemption.

Scribbling into the void!

What rocks can teach us & other things [Breccia: a rock composed of fragments] Journal pieces from my life alongside rock and animal kin, and the embodied writing process. Vignettes, brief contemplations, essays, prose sketchbook and travel dispatches.

Words & Cartoons by Zoe Si

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

Relatable, funny, & inspirational stuff for the screwed and those who love them.

Examining spirituality within our material reality

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry by an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Practical tools and relatable insights to help you create a loving and wise life, from meditation teacher, Buddhist student, and author Kimberly Brown.

A culture, news and comdy newsletter, with a focus on queer culture, news and issues from Rebecca Shaw and Patrick Lenton.

my deliciously messy human body and mind.

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Weekly cartoons from the sketchbook of New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

A newsletter for people who beat themselves up.

Essays and interviews by Sophia Jennings

Travel intel and inspiration

The adventures, insights, and travel tips of a gay nomad couple exploring the world. A "Substack Featured" Newsletter! Also seen on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN.com.

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

a newsletter in which comedian/writer Ginny Hogan raises some questions & makes some jokes

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.

Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? Ask E. Jean is the longest currently-running advice column in American publishing.

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Weekly Cartoons, Jokes, Musings

recipes + stories from the world of jewish food, by leah koenig

A visual advice column by Sofia Warren

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things.

Get a FREE cartoon in your inbox every Thursday + Sketchbook and Diary Entries of a New Yorker Cartoonist & Comedian in NYC

Travel / Style / Fishing / Design / Etc.

A fortnightly newsletter on routines, rituals, and wriggling through a creative life, from the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

help-self

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!)

A newsletter about facing life's ups and downs, all while being kind to yourself.

Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all.

Field notes from the frontiers of drugs and raving, by gonzo reporter Michelle Lhooq