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Recommended by Margaret O'Brien

Just me - writer, educator, winner in pets, loser in the battle of the pet hair

I believe images have power. Welcome to Heartfelt Stories about caring for nature and our planet. When we take care of nature, nature takes care of us.

Small Finds

By Peter Ross

Wandering and wondering in Glasgow and beyond.

The Bagatelles

By Jörgen Löwenfeldt

Your letters of escapism. Expect fictional bagatelles on time travel, mind travel, fern craze and dromomania. Welcome away ꩜

Marie Ennis-O'Connor

The Gaelic Effect: How the Irish language can save the world

By Dian Killian

Human experience---and potential---through the lens of Irish language, place and culture.

Wolfish!

By Tash

Hungry for books and art. Virginia Woolf reading group.

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.

Mirth as Medicine

By Ana Bosch

Confessions of an Opinionated Oncologist

You Can Do Anything

By Chris Broadbent

Everyone is on a journey; my substack delivers free weekly non-fiction writing around mental health, wellbeing, reinvention, sustainability, dogs & business; in no particular order, I'm here to support you as living proof that you can indeed, do anything.

FLOW : Letters from the moss

By Michela Griffith

The tranquility you need today. Evocations of wood and water from Scotland.

The Life Boat

By Samantha Clark

Weekly letters from a windswept island in the North Atlantic. Nature, art and books that help us stay buoyant. Keep creativity afloat with subscriber co-working. Climb aboard.

Bad Habits Writing Academy

By Aaron

Welcome to the home of the Bad Habits Writing Academy, created by Aaron Zimmerman, the Founder of NY Writers Coalition. We host free Work Rooms to write in community, plus creative writing workshops and more.

Aaron Zimmerman is a force of nature, a force for good.

- Margaret O'Brien

Up There The Last

By Max

A real-time traditional food conservation project for the active remembering, revival and perpetuation of our disappearing food heritage

A Broads Thoughts From Home

By Jillian Quinn Wheaton

The words and poetry that make it from my mind to the page. From my page to Substack. Words on Life, Death, Grief, Sea Swimming, Living On, Connections and LOVE

I love @jillyQW's thoughtful, reflective writing on the art of living and loving, which, inevitably for us all, includes loss. She keeps it real, stays connected within herself, and in that way touches all who might read her.

- Margaret O'Brien

Breakthroughs & Blocks

By Bec and Chris

Get the strategies, support and motivation to keep writing from Bec Evans and Chris Smith, authors of 'Written'. Upgrade to a paid subscription for exclusive access to our Writing Sprint Club - designed to help you stay on track and make real progress.

Bec and Chris have brought together something very special, an empathy for writers and the process of writing with an understanding of the quirks of mind that so often disrupt this work. And they have dived deep into the research and share the tools to help. Plus, their book, 'Written', is brilliant!

- Margaret O'Brien

Awen Creative Writing | Mel Parks

A writing community with a weekly Zoom creative writing workshop for paid subscribers and a weekly free newsletter on the writing process & seasonal living together with prompts, tips and techniques to help your creativity thrive.

Breccia by Ruth Allen

[Breccia: a rock composed of fragments] personal essays, writing guidance, creative vignettes from my ever-evolving creative life living alongside rock and animal kin. A place for writing between books.

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.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Writing Home

By Dougald Hine

A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.

Uncivil Savant

By Caroline Ross

Notes from the way, words from the woods, water from the springs

This is one of the best, most thoughtful and thought-provoking, series on Substack. I always feel better equipped to face my day, my week when I've read Caroline's words.

- Margaret O'Brien

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.