Substacks recommended by Harriet Mason

Recommended by Harriet Mason

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

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.

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 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 the best they can be.

Lemon Soul

By Emma Simpson

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

Auraist: picking the best-written books of the month

By Sean

32K+ readers. Followers, please note that only free or paid subscribers receive our picks of the best-written books from US & UK prize shortlists & major reviews, & masterclasses by their (sometimes world-renowned) authors on prose style.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Grow your Substack, connect with your subscribers, and earn the income you deserve with the leading Substack Strategist. A top-3, bestselling 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 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.

Pragmatic, sound and very human advice and insight on how to keep writing. I love Bec & Chris' posts plus their writing sprints and reset courses always work. They're also brilliant at supporting their community in the comments.

- 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

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

Queen of Oversharing

By Kay Stratton

Sober, sweary, beagle-owning linguist, sharing and oversharing while I work in the background to secure an agent for my memoir, Things I Learned After It Was Too Late.

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