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Recommended by Alexander M Crow

Flash fiction, art, musings, what inspires me, and occasional rants.

Earth-based spirituality crafted in real time. Rooted in home, nature, and presence. Stories, soul work, and deep connection.

XPress Book Box

By Winston Malone

XPress Book Box is a subscription that delivers indie books to readers excited to support emerging talent. We're dedicated to independent authors and presses!

The Camont Journals with Kate Hill

By Kate Hill's Winter Words

The Camont Journals, published almost weekly, are based on a lifetime of French inspiration from the kitchen, garden, farms, and markets of Gascony and written at the Relais de Camont, my home and creative writer’s residency in Southwest France.

Byrne Notice

By Monica Byrne

An itinerant artist, writing from the road.

Travel: NE Where

By Narina Exelby

For – and often about – women who travel, and other curious people.

My Journey With a Camera

By Lynn Fraser

Photography and stories from the Highlands and beyond—encounters, connections, and the quiet moments that stay with us.

Curious About Everything

By Jodi Ettenberg

A monthly roundup of the most interesting writing from around the web

Having followed Jodi's writing for years, I can heartily recommend her curated newsletter and guarantee you'll find something interesting, something engaging, something educational - or, often, all of the above.

- Alexander M Crow

Top In Fiction

By TiF Team

Where Fiction Lives!

A superb resource for those of us seeking new fiction here on Substack (and for those who want to share their own work). All shared for free, despite the time and considerable effort of curating and sending this letter. Highly recommended.

- Alexander M Crow

Alchemical wonderings with Jan Elisabeth

A nurturing space to tend to your story and the story of the earth that holds us. What story do you want to write? What story do you want to be? How do we craft small lives well and keep hope in a challenging world?

Just Write, Right

By Barrie Thomson

A public provocation to compel me to write more

Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey

Hello Readers! I am a Creative Writer & Photographer. I post my Poetry, Personal and Photo Essays, Daily Affirmations, Quotes of the Day and more, all to Inspire and Enlighten my readers. My posts are digital collages encompassing the world around me.

between two seas

By rebecca hooper

from an island tucked between the north sea and the atlantic, a weekly newsletter about life and death, land and sea, science, art, and finding joy.

A hill and I

By Susie Mawhinney

Field conversations and blurry photography from a hill in SW France, wrapped in self sufficient chaos, memoir obscurities and armfuls of love!

Cosmographia

By M. E. Rothwell

Histories of the earth and the stars.

Sound matters: Julian Treasure’s Substack

By Julian Treasure

Exploring the vital skills of conscious listening and effective speaking, and the power and wonder of sound.

Scribbles and Sketches

By Lydia Crow

A series of seasonal notebooks, four a year, each lasting a calendar month and following a single theme, which may be predominantly textual or predominantly visual. Perhaps some may include audio or video. Don't expect polish.

Beyond the Bookshelf

By Matthew Long

After navigating oceans for 24 years in the Navy, I now chart courses through literature and life. Here we explore beyond the bookshelf to discover how the written word shapes who we are and who we're becoming.

Nomadic Notes Newsletter

By James Clark

A summary of latest posts from Nomadic Notes, and other news and updates from the editor not featured on the blog.

Encourage Meant

By 'Encourage Meant'

A regular burst of positivity inspired by The Encouragement Manifesto

Paul’s Substack

By Paul Wittenberger

Once upon a time, I discovered I had many voices in my head and I needed a place to put them—then Substack came along. "To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy." —Stéphane Mallarmé

Born Without Borders

By Nolan Yuma

Building bridges across divides.

Anne of Green Places

By Anne Thomas

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - recently left the French Alps to be an ecology professor in Utah. Place, history, ecology, art.

Woodland Wonderings by Sarah Moorcroft

Photographs and wonderings inspired by wandering in the temperate rainforests, coast and countryside of Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland.

Notes from Saving the World

By Catriona Knapman

Vision, solace, heart and grit for those on unconventional paths and wild journeys. Inspired by 20 years in 10 countries, working in the aid sector.

My personal Substack

Elevating human creativity and purpose through adventure. A journal of outdoor and nature writing, photography, analogue counterculture, literature and art.

Dandelion Seeds: Illustrated Essays

By Candace Rose Rardon

Once a week, I share a short illustrated essay, hand-painted and hand-lettered, from my desk to yours. Like wishing on a dandelion, I hope it’ll bring a moment of beauty and wonder to your day.

Cricklewood Nature Journal

By Susannah

If you yearn to draw and paint, love nature, like applied learning and practice using real subjects, then Cricklewood Nature Journal is for you!

Beyond the Comfort Zone

By Renée Eli

Complex times usher us beyond comfort to the depths of human becoming. These letters are meditative essays devoted to the unfolding of us.

Jonathan Foster's The Crow

Beautiful writing that explores the human condition from the intimate and personal to the sublimely universal.

Ramblanista

By Dr Sian Lacey Taylder

In the beginning was the walk, and the walk was made flesh

The Unmasked Woman - by Hannah Anstee

By ✹ The Unmasked Woman ✹ (Hannah Anstee)

AuDHD ✨ Writer & Coach. Always trying to 'find' myself. 📌 Yorkshire-based. Late-discovered. Most-used mantra: f*ck it.

Mappery

By Debs Stott

Mappery began as a space for maps and meaning and it is changing as I reweave those threads into a slightly different direction for living and creating. New posts come out each Friday. There is also a gift for new subscribers in the welcome email.

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike

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

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.

A Wildness Diary

By A Wilderness Diary by Jess Petrie

Nature notes; Discovering & documenting wild edible British foods through mindful photography, and everything in-between; the land, the seasons, it's inhabitants, and myself/wellbeing/healing.

Fantastic Adventures by Aaron Hodges

Join the official substack of Aaron Hodges and discover epic worlds, amazing characters and terrifying villains...

Apocrypha

By M. E. Rothwell

Writings of uncertain authenticity.

Talking Travel Writing

By Lottie & Steph

Demystifying the travel media

The Myth & Moor Newsletter

By Terri Windling & Lunar Hine

For readers of Terri Windling's Myth & Moor blog, and lovers of myth, folklore, fantasy, and the natural world. Terri's news & events, plus recommendations of works by others in the mythic arts community. Written by Lunar Hine, Terri's studio elf.

The Selkie

By Author Angelina Kelly

Exploring the intersection of nature, myth, and fantasy, and building a calm community of connection in a crowded, lonely world. Written by a half-feral woman of the north.

Dips and Dooks

By ‘Dips and Dooks’

My life in rural France 🇮🇪/ 🇫🇷 A simple life of growing and sewing, dooking and cooking, running, rolling with the seasons, and learning about myself. This is my story.

Splendid Trees

By Euan Bowditch

Life and times in the world of trees. Thoughts and ideas from a professional forest researcher. May include whisky and (attempted) woodcraft.

haver & sparrow

By Charlene Storey

Letters from my island home in Shetland: creativity, photography, and slow-ish living with a punk rock heart. Forever obsessed with storytelling and capturing the life's littlest joys in words, photos & art. And dogs. There are also dogs.

e q u i n o x

By Kirsty Strang-Roy

Reflections on writing, myth, childhood and the liminal spaces where they meet. Letters on the writing process, creative placemaking and how threads of grief entangle our world(s).

The Forest Path

Woodland wanderings and musings of a therapeutic wilderness guide

I can guarantee that if you enjoy my Ancestral, Wild Empowerment series (or any of my nature-connected work), you'll find this a powerful addition to your reading. I know for a fact that backing The Forest Path there is a wealth of knowledge, experience, and time spent honing thoughts and ideas through irreplaceable hands-on practice. This is going to be a go-to Substack for me and I am very excited about the conversations which will naturally develop from these words.

- Alexander M Crow