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Marie’s Substack

By Marie Gardiner

A bit of everything, really. Mostly photos, short essays, and thoughts.

ReVerse

By Dave Bonta

digesting the poetry blogs

This Wild Feeling

By Kathryn Anna Marshall

Occasional writing on being a poet, travel, living with chronic illness and cPTSD. Creative Tuesday is all about my own creative process, poetry and poetry film. Letters from Japan published every Friday throughout the summer.

Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt

A newsletter and writing community exploring what it means to belong in nature, in landscape, in class, in grief.

A poet with a profound connection to the natural world, lots for aspiring writers to share and connect with

- Avril Joy

Going Gently

By Satya

...helping you be kinder to yourself & everything

Just As You Are

By Kaspa Thompson

"Interesting, thought provoking and witty.” Helping you to be yourself. Untangling the knots that come with being human. Let's all be kinder to ourselves. Psychotherapist & Buddhist Priest.

DIRT

By Caroline Beck

The seasonal journal of a well-seasoned gardener

Gritty, funny, tear jerking - a roller coaster of life as flower grower and as writer

- Avril Joy

Living Life Twice with Wendy Robertson

'A writer lives life twice: once when she lives it and once when she writes it.’ Anais Nin. My long life as I have lived it, and its ongoing reflection in all my stories.

The Unhurried Reader

Considered posts about books read with care.

Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson

By Debora Robertson 🦀

Welcome to my newsletter. This is where I share stories from my seaside village in the South West of France, my trips to the market, weekly recipes, and updates on our house renovation. Most of it’s free, and will always be free.

Gorgeous writing, recipes and stories from the heart, all the adventures of a new life in the South of France - licked spoon is my favourite food writer.

- Avril Joy

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

I'm a huge admirer of her work - enough said

- Avril Joy

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

King of the short story - who else can come close. Forensic in its approach but human and funny. A must read especially for serious short story writers

- Avril Joy

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Simply the best writing newsletter that comes into my Inbox - a writer with a truly authentic connection to her audience. If you don't already subscribe then you should!

- Avril Joy

Writing Days

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