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Recommended by Nikki Tate

Children's and young adult literature, my PhD (maybe), my move to a new home in Tasmania, education and libraries, books and other cultural stuff, my cats, and whatever else takes my fancy.

News from Saraband

By Saraband Books

Award-winning independent publisher • Case Study longlisted for #BookerPrize2022 • #BritishBookAwards Small Press Finalist 2023

Novel Title TBC

By soakandscribble

*ON HIATUS* Hi there, I'm Lexie. Corporate millennial by day, aspiring author the rest of the time. This sustack is a monthly serialisation of the novel I am currently working on, with blog posts between each chapter to follow along the journey.

Shaved Meats, Piled High

By Laura Lippman

Blatant self-promotion for my novels because I never want to have a real job again. But, hey, it's only monthly and it's free.

Susannahgram

By Susannah Elizabeth

Maraschino Cherry sized insider bulletins about my creative capers (occasionally served on cocktail shticks) Subscribe to join the party…

An intriguing peek behind the creative curtain….

- Nikki Tate

Cartes Postales

By Rachel Ifans

Anything French. N'importe quoi. Mostly travel.

Suzan Colón

Yoga Mind, medKNITation, and more from the author of Cherries in Winter and Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical.

Anna’s Writing

By Anna Rozwadowska

A Collection of my Writing

Heartbeats

By Mariah Friend

Heartbeats is a community for spiritual creatives, artists afraid to call themselves artists, burned-out caregivers, and messy humans. Come as you are.

minute meditations

By Minute Meditations

reflections on being & creating.

Debbie’s Stories

By Debbie Russell

Random thoughts about what it means to be human.

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, all things literary--and a course: Write it! How to get started, The Writing Life and (Re)Making Love: a memoir in serial chapters

Beyond Bloomsbury

By Victoria K. Walker

Historical artist and writer biographies.

Exploding Giraffe

By Brian K. Vaughan

The NSFW work of graphic novelists Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon

Fictionistas

By Jackie Dana

A collaborative community for fiction writers on Substack

I Might Could Do That!

By Christine Nishiyama

Illustrated essays from an artist (and mom and human) on living the creative life. Currently writing and drawing about: the art of wisdom traditions and the weirdness of jellyfish.

The Creative Goods

By Jill Margo

A feminist and justice-based advice column for creators with conundrums, written by me, Jill Margo of The Creative Good. It's free and comes out on the first Friday of every month.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Love the reflections on life, self, aging… on humanity.

- Nikki Tate

Cartoons by Hilary

By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

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

Road2Elsewhere by Peter Moore

Not all who wander are lost...they're on the Road2Elsewhere.

Unschool for Writers

By Alison Acheson

Playing and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people

Great content for writers!

- Nikki Tate

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and the 30-Day Drawing Habit.

I LOVE the work WendyMac is doing over at the Grown-ups' Table :) If you're looking for a drawing/creativity/art community, it doesn't get much better than this one :)

- Nikki Tate

American Ambition

By Marc Cenedella

“An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? She is a shining city upon a hill.” - Ronald Reagan ~Largest Substack on the Right~

Signal Fire by Tyler Knott Gregson

Weekly writing, poetry, photography, advice, and creative inspiration on how to chase the light, embrace the dark, and find all the miracles in the mundane from the author of the nationally best-selling "Chasers of the Light" and other best-sellers.

Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble

By Lyle McKeany

Personal, vulnerable, and sometimes funny essays from a husband, father, and disability advocate, delivered whatever days he wants at exactly 8:08 am PT.

Hello, Writer!

By Linda Caroll

Writing, literature and books. Because, what else is there?

The Art of Noticing

By Rob Walker Art of Noticing

Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.