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Recommended by Margaret O'Brien

Hungry for books and art. Virginia Woolf reading group.

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.

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

Evocations of wood and water from NE Scotland: small beauty noticed, tranquility shared.

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 will be launching creative writing programs later this year.

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 that make it from my mind to the page. 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 advice, support, and insight you need to keep writing from Bec Evans and Chris Smith, authors of Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit that Lasts. Upgrade to a paid subscription for exclusive access to our Writing Sprint Club.

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 Inspiration & Wellbeing

By 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] a mix of journal pieces, vignettes and personal essays from my constantly-evolving creative life living alongside rock and animal kin. Planetary and bison leanings. Embodied and elemental. Red-shifting.

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, 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