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Recommended by Margaret O'Brien

Encouraging writers one line at a time.

Weekly letters from a windswept northerly island about creative life by the water, and the art and books that help us stay buoyant. Climb aboard.

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.

Splinister

By Maura McHugh

Irish writer Maura McHugh navigates this splintered world, one newsletter at a time.

The Villager

By Tom Cox

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

The Screenwriter's Notebook

By Peter Salisbury

When you enter a story, something magical happens, and for me entering a story on screen is where the greatest magic happens.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Breakthroughs & Blocks

By Bec and Chris

Practical support to help you beat your blocks and get writing again - by Bec Evans and Chris Smith, authors of Written and coaches at The Written Academy.

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

The Women of Ireland Project

By Belinda Vigors

A bi-monthly newsletter exploring what it is like to be a woman of Ireland and how we came to be the way we are

Peak Notions with Laura Kennedy

The digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher.

Uncivil Savant

By Caroline Ross

Notes from the way, words from the woods, waters 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

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

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