Substacks recommended by Harriet Mason

Recommended by Harriet Mason

Hello, I'm Philippa Perry. I'm interested in your problems and dilemmas.

I’ve always loved Philippa Perry’s advice & am so pleased she’s here in Substack. Now, it’s thoughtful & it makes me stop and reflect.

- Harriet Mason

Midstack

By Jessica Smock

A membership community for midlife women who want to write, connect, and grow on Substack, from the editors of Midstory Magazine.

Lexistential

By Lex Read

weekly musings on life from lex read

This Woman's Work

By Rebecca Mack

Growing a community of peace and rage. Woman focused. A drive for better and a chance to find inner calm in a sea of personal and political storms. Engage, enhance and embolden your life.

Wendy’s World

By Wendy Varley

Arts, books, history, life!

Who I Am in Spanish

By 'Who I Am in Spanish'

On life in Madrid and life in another language. Or put another way: on place and belonging, and feeling more at home in places where you don’t officially belong.

Geraldine Writes Life

By Geraldine Brown

My personal Substack

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

Clover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels

By Clover Stroud on The Way Life Feels

I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity

Nancy's Darkroom

By Nancy Forde

Personal substack for my thoughts, written and visual. For my photography newsletter, subscribe to Nancy's Darkroom. For all things bibliophilia, subscribe to Spinetingling.

The Conversation

By Antonia Taylor

Bringing your whole self to your marketing, business + creative life

The Passionate Writer

By Tali Sarnetzky

I write and motivate, therefore I am. Here I share my writing journey, with the hope that i can motivate and empower fellow writers and artists to be themselves, whole and true. I focus on emotional wellbeing as part of the creative journey.

Lemon Soul

By Emma Simpson

Refreshing Perspectives, Slices of Life. Highly Relatable, Profoundly Human 🍋💕

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

By Sarah Fay Substack Events

Where you build the Substack you know is possible. Expert guidance from the leading Substack Strategist, Sarah Fay. A top-10, featured Substack.

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

Top 40 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-analysis, perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland

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.

Pragmatic, sound and very human insight on how to keep writing. I love Bec & Chris' posts and their monthly writing sprints and reset courses.

- Harriet Mason

Inner Workings

By Rachel Katz

Literary essays, published occasionally. On work culture, mothering, mysterious women’s diseases, and redefining success. Striving to deliver little nuggets of beauty and sparks of insight.

Thought provoking for this chronic fatigue/boom & bust reader.

- Harriet Mason

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Gather & Grow

By Sarah Raad

Gather & Grow 🌿 A space for creative women in midlife to grow with intention—navigating the messy middle and embracing a simpler, more joyful life. Hosted by me, Sarah! Join for content around sustainable growth, slow productivity and more.

Poetry Unbound

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Open your world with poetry

The Publishing Spectrum

By Amanda B. Hinton

Thoughtful tools, Substack-savvy data, and intuitive strategy — read by thousands. ☀️ Shape a publishing practice that’s truly your own: one that honors your creative instincts and draws the right audience for your work.

The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

I’m a RHS Chelsea gold medallist and author sharing the simplest ways to garden. Join the community for weekly posts and chats, design guidance and gardening tips led by one of the UK's top garden designers.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Delicious, gentle open hearted writing and writing advice.

- Harriet Mason

Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter

By jeanette winterson

Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.

Week after week Jeanette Winterson stops me in my tracks. She manages to blend the big overwhelming challenges going on in the world, the big questions that occupy our brains and share thoughtful answers and observations in a way that makes sense.

- Harriet Mason

Queen of Oversharing

By Kay

Sober, sweary, beagle-owning linguist, sharing and oversharing while I work to secure an agent for my hybrid memoir, examining the language we use surrounding domestic abuse, mental health, disability, family, and addiction.

Austin Kleon

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

Help Me! Newsletter

By Marianne Power

Life. Love. Self-help.

Love Marianne's newsletters - her reflection, humour and lists of things to read, watch and listen to.

- Harriet Mason