Substacks recommended by Abigail Thomas

Recommended by Abigail Thomas

Need help coming up with a logo? A wordmark? A cover image? Flummoxed by the tech? Do you want to brand your stack? Need a tour around the backend of your newsletter and help setting it up? I do it all!

As far as computers go, I know how to write on one and how to open email. That’s it. I am a technical illiterate. But I know a good thing when I see it, and after Nan did whatever she did to my Substack page, all I can tell you is I don’t need a website anymore. I love how it looks. So if you are anything like me, or just don’t have the time, give Nan a call. She has a great eye, and she really knows her stuff.

- Abigail Thomas

Writing and the World

By Deborah Biancotti 🔥🪵⛺️

Notes from a [Cranky] Humanist. NYT bestselling writer, collaborative novelist, novella + short story author, emerging screenwriter, human-centred content strategist, your judgey friend.

Matt’s Substack

By Matt Bays

My personal Substack

Very interesting terrific writer, much food for thought. The kind we're all hungry for.

- Abigail Thomas

Wendy’s World

By Wendy Varley

Arts, books, life!

Wonderful writer. That's all, and that's enough. Read her.

- Abigail Thomas

Dressing Like a Kangaroo

By Roo

Be prepared for mildly cold weather, midnight scuffles with raccoons, and dangerously close calls with the comforts of home.

Prajna O'Hara aka The Salty Crone

Writing through the hard stuff for a dose of strength, mystery, meaning, or a good belly laugh when all seems buried or hard to find—like the elusive missing sock...

Everyone Else is Taken

By Sue

Amusing, introspective, relatable. These cozy but thought-provoking posts are suitable for tea breaks, unwelcome dread at 3 a.m. or waiting for pasta to boil. Repeat as needed. Won’t you join me?

The Next Write Thing

By Nan Tepper

Personal essays by Nan Tepper about life, childhood, being queer, navigating mental health, and recovery. I'm sharing the stories I've always wanted to tell.

Nan’s writing gets better and better. She doesn’t duck the hard stuff. She isn’t afraid to explore the difficult parts of her life and the painful truths about herself, and in the process, she finds herself changing. Hers is an authentic, vulnerable and honest voice we can learn from. I highly recommend Nan’s The Next Write Thing.

- Abigail Thomas

From My Heart to Yours

By Dawn Levitt

Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient. Scars are tougher than skin. Trauma survivor. Sharing poetry along with stories of hope and healing. Currently writing a memoir, "Three-Hearted Girl."

N of One

By Mary Braun Bates

Primary care doctor helping myself puzzle out what it means to be human. Anecdotal answers to the big questions of life as it seems to me.

Read her. Just read her now. You'll know why I'm in awe.

- Abigail Thomas

The Book I Want to Write

By Paul Zakrzewski

I focus on the place where urgency meets resistance—what gets in the way of the writing the big, scary things you want to. Also, home of THE BOOK I HAD TO WRITE podcast. Currently publishes 2x a month.

Thyme, Place & Story

By Susan Wittig Albert

Sharing what we've learned about living in place, growing plants, growing older, crafting, reading, and writing.

WHY? BECAUSE IT'S GOOD. DUH.

- Abigail Thomas

read.write.eat.

By Natalie Serber

sharing good things every week: a terrific book, a writing idea, a simple recipe I love

Dispatch from Bewilderness (formerly Judith’s Substack)

By Judith Hannah Weiss

Wit, grit, life, death, nature, brain, brain damage, humans, love, birds and more. Plus my graphics, too.

Amazement Seeker

By Rona Maynard

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

Life at the Bottom of the Canyon

By Kate Mapother

Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.

Fabtastic writer.

- Abigail Thomas