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| Title | Author | Subscribers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  | The Shit No One Tells You About Writing | The Shit About Writing Team, Carly Watters, CeCe Lyra, Bronwen Keyes-Bevan, Bianca Marais | |
| #2 |  | Beth Brower Scribbles Away | Beth Brower | |
| #3 |  | Alphabet Soup | Etgar Keret | |
| #4 |  | Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler | Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Palahniuk Admin | |
| #5 |  | SubMakk | Rebecca Makkai | |
| #6 |  | Div's Book Crumbs | Divs.BookCrumbs | |
| #7 |  | The Art of Flash Fiction | Kathy Fish | |
| #8 |  | Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal | Jimmy Doom | |
| #9 |  | The Author Stack | Russell Nohelty, Monica Leonelle, Ciler from Newsletter Circle, Ines Johnson, Philip Hofmacher, Lee Savino, Jari Roomer, Erin Shetron, Cindy Gunderson, Rossana Corniel | |
| #10 |  | The Sunday Morning Transport | Julian Yap, The Sunday Morning Transport, Fran Wilde, Michelle Muenzler, Scott Lynch, John Wiswell, Martin Cahill, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Rachel Hartman, Alex London, Nibedita, Mary Robinette Kowal, Margaret Dunlap, Lauren C. Teffeau, Paolo Bacigalupi, David Bowles, Christina Rosso, Leanna Renee Hieber, L D Lewis, Ian Tregillis, F. Brett Cox | |
| #11 |  | Marty's Substack | Marty Willson-Piper | |
| #12 |  | Stunning Sentences | Nina Schuyler | |
| #13 |  | This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin | Emma Darwin | |
| #14 |  | The Falcon's Children | Ross Douthat | |
| #15 |  | Counter Craft | Lincoln Michel | |
| #16 |  | Andrea Bartz: Get It Write | Andrea Bartz | |
| #17 |  | Italics Mine | Edan Lepucki | |
| #18 |  | Taboo Gay Erotic Stories | Evan J. Xavier | |
| #19 |  | Happier In Hollywood | Sarah Fain, Liz Craft | |
| #20 |  | Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson | Howard Jacobson | |
| #21 |  | Frank Talk | Frank J. Fleming, sarahk | |
| #22 |  | Salman's Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | |
| #23 |  | Amphetamine Sulphate | Philip Best | |
| #24 |  | CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY with Evelyn Skye | Evelyn Skye, Emma Pattee | |
| #25 |  | Jodi Taylor Books | Jodi Taylor, Hazel Cushion | |
| #26 |  | No Failure, Only Practice | Matt Bell | |
| #27 |  | Tim Lott's Writing Boot Camp & Philosophy Jam | Tim Lott | |
| #28 |  | The Commonplace | Thomas J Bevan | |
| #29 |  | Maggie Alderson - Style Notes | Maggie Alderson | |
| #30 |  | tchik tchak, la newsletter sur l'écriture | pauline mauroux, Julia Marras | |
| #31 |  | Chapter House | Sarah A. Hoyt | |
| #32 |  | Make Up Your Life | Chelsea Bieker | |
| #33 |  | Tara Dublin Is An Untapped Writing Goldmine | Tara Dublin | |
| #34 |  | The Archive In Between’s Substack | The Archive In Between | |
| #35 |  | if not, Paris | Samuél Lopez-Barrantes, John Baxter, Augusta Sagnelli | |
| #36 |  | Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass | Meg Pokrass | |
| #37 |  | Moral Dilemmas: First Drafts & Commentaries | Rollie Atkinson | |
| #38 |  | Prompts of Resilience | Meg Pokrass | |
| #39 |  | Ines Johnson is having a Breakdown | Ines Johnson | |
| #40 |  | Julia Kent's Writing Cabin | Julia Kent | |
| #41 |  | Hot Gay Erotic Stories | Gavin E. Black, JT Fader | |
| #42 |  | The Judean People's Front by Reuben Salsa | Reuben Salsa | |
| #43 |  | White Russian | Marta Zura-Puntaroni | |
| #44 |  | Brad Phillips | Brad Phillips | |
| #45 |  | After Dinner Conversation - Philosophy | Ethics Short Story | After Dinner Conversation, Tina Lee Forsee | |
| #46 |  | the chilliad | mollyhall | |
| #47 |  | The Orange & Bee | The Orange & Bee, Nike Sulway, Carina Bissett, Katie Gray, Gabriella Ekman, Marisa Celeste Montany, Kari Maaren | |
| #48 |  | Authortunities | Angela Yuriko Smith | |
| #49 |  | YourSecretNeeds | YourSecretNeeds | |
| #50 |  | WestWord | Amanda Saint, Martha Lane | |
| #51 |  | Write Hard. | Orlando Silver | |
| #52 |  | The Creative Edge | J.T. Ellison | |
| #53 |  | Raconteur Press | Raconteur Press | |
| #54 |  | what now? | mary g. | |
| #55 |  | Screenwriting Tricks for Authors | Alexandra Sokoloff | |
| #56 | ||||
| #57 |  | Unapocalyptic | Karl Schroeder | |
| #58 |  | CherryKel’s Substack | CherryKel | |
| #59 |  | A Life Worth Writing | S J Watson | |
| #60 |  | Works Progress | Works Progress | |
| #61 |  | Forever Amber | Amber Eve | |
| #62 |  | Age of Legends: The Essential Guide | Story Continues | |
| #63 |  | Sacrifice the World | Satya Moses | |
| #64 |  | Fuck, Marry, Kill | elle nash, Josh Link, Maria Sledmere, Vanessa Aricco, Julia Laxer, Kawai Shen, Emil Ottoman, Angela Giaimo, Lana Frankle, Crystal Helcel, Alia | |
| #65 |  | Jim’s Substack | Jim Draper, james draper ii | |
| #66 |  | I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED | Ariel Lawhon, The Book Tide | |
| #67 |  | Running of the WIPS | Lani Diane Rich | |
| #68 |  | Iconoblast | Pat Mills, Lisa Mills | |
| #69 |  | Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | |
| #70 |  | Write More with Simon K Jones | Simon K Jones, John Ward, Ben Cohen, ZK Hardy | |
| #71 | ||||
| #72 |  | Egg Report | Egg Report | |
| #73 |  | The Reader Crew | Joshua James | |
| #74 |  | The Real Book Spy, Ryan Steck’s Substack | The Real Book Spy, Ryan Steck, David McCloskey | |
| #75 |  | Lindsey’s Substack | Lindsey Kelk | |
| #76 |  | Talk Soon | Danielle Lazarin, Jaime Green, Kat Chow, Neelanjana Banerjee, Libby Flores, Brian Gresko, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | |
| #77 |  | Mia Hill's Naughty Step | Mia Hill | |
| #78 |  | The Mindful Writer | Amanda Saint, Dave Karpowicz, Allegra Chapman | |
| #79 |  | Snaps | Deirdre Lewis | |
| #80 |  | THE SCARLETT FILES | Marty Neumeier | |
| #81 |  | Kick-Ass Heroines | April White Books | |
| #82 |  | The Literary Obsessive | Eleanor Anstruther, Hamish McKenzie, Sarah Fay, david roberts, Picking the best-written books, John Halbrooks, Sarah, Emma Simpson, Mary Roblyn | |
| #83 |  | Real talk about traditional publishing. | Michelle Schusterman | |
| #84 |  | Writing is Joy | Julia F. Green | |
| #85 |  | A Writer's Diary | Toby Litt | |
| #86 |  | Unlearning Fear | Wade Rouse - Viola Shipman | |
| #87 |  | Wordstrumpet | Charlotte Rains Dixon | |
| #88 |  | The Writer_ | J. Kevin Tumlinson | |
| #89 |  | Wonkette's THE SPLIT | Rebecca Schoenkopf, Ellis Weiner, Steve Radlauer | |
| #90 |  | Write Well | Angela Hunt | |
| #91 |  | You Are Here | Mike Oppenheim, Tina Olive Thilmony, Tim McCoy | |
| #92 |  | Talebones ✨ | S.E. Reid | |
| #93 |  | Burnt Tongue | Emil Ottoman, Layne Mercer, W.B. Foley, Melissa Smith | |
| #94 |  | The Erotic World of P.T.Brown | P.T.Brown | |
| #95 |  | Garbage Notes | Franco Amati | |
| #96 |  | Odds’s Substack | Odds Bodkin | |
| #97 |  | A Gathered Brokenness | Joanne Fedler | |
| #98 |  | Pretty Evil Fiction | Author Michele Bardsley | |
| #99 |  | Evensong Stories | K. C. Ireton | |
| #100 |  | Women Writing | Liisa Kovala, Amy L Bernstein | |
| #101 |  | Catch & Release | Ben Wakeman, Simon K Jones, Eleanor Anstruther | |
| #102 |  | Mick Betancourt | Mick Betancourt | |
| #103 |  | Send My Love to Anyone | Kathryn Mockler, KIRBY, D.A. Lockhart, Sandra Campbell | |
| #104 |  | Jack Schaeffer Newsletter | Jack Schaeffer | |
| #105 |  | 404EVER | Lordess Foudre | |
| #106 |  | Writes4Women | Pamela Cook, Annie Bucknall | |
| #107 |  | Trantor Publishing | Isaac Young | |
| #108 |  | Close Friends | Sophie McHugh | |
| #109 |  | Fiction Attic Press | Fiction Attic Press, Claire Polders, Sophie Wolfe, Jaime Gill, Milly Heller, Margo Rife | |
| #110 |  | Magic of Memoir, Magic of Fiction by Linda Joy Myers | Linda Joy Myers | |
| #111 |  | Age of Aquarius | EJ Trask | |
| #112 |  | Plot Twists | Elisabeth Edelman | |
| #113 |  | The Word Factory’s Substack | The Word Factory | |
| #114 |  | The Hour Thief | Raymond Obstfeld | |
| #115 |  | DOOM FICTION | William Pauley III, Andy Futuro, Jon T, Sean Thomas McDonnell | |
| #116 |  | 100 Stories | Adam Nathan, <Mary L. Tabor>, Deirdre Lewis, Tommy Swerdlow, A. Jay Adler, Kimberly Warner, Chloe Hope, Anna Schott, Anonymous | |
| #117 |  | Monalisa's Musings | Monalisa Foster, Robb Grindstaff | |
| #118 |  | Fantasy Camp™ | Madeleine Voge | |
| #119 |  | Straps and the City | Tiffany Gibson | |
| #120 |  | Step-by-Step Worldbuilding | Angeline Trevena | |
| #121 |  | Beyond the Classroom | Abby Maslin | |
| #122 |  | Susan Gabriel | Susan Gabriel, Author | |
| #123 |  | Writing & Selling Stories with Angelique Fawns | Angelique Fawns, Angeline Trevena, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael La Ronn | |
| #124 |  | Lucy’s Boudoir | Lucy | |
| #125 |  | The Short Tall Letter | The Short Tall Letter | |
| #126 |  | T.M.’s Substack | T.M. Cromer | |
| #127 |  | Female Led Relationships and Male Permanent Chastity | Giles English | |
| #128 |  | The Howe and the Why | Katherine Howe | |
| #129 |  | Cemetery’s Substack | Cemetery Dance Publications | |
| #130 |  | Based Book Sale | Hans G. Schantz | |
| #131 |  | Stories with Melanie Sumner | Melanie Sumner | |
| #132 |  | Souled Ideas | WINSTON / SOULED IDEA | |
| #133 |  | Cross My Heart And Hope To Write | Steven T. Licardi | |
| #134 |  | Stumbling Toward Genius | Cynthia Morris | |
| #135 |  | The Writer's Attic | Parker Peevyhouse | |
| #136 |  | Games & Writing by Greg Buchanan | Greg Buchanan | |
| #137 |  | Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling | Tommy Dean | |
| #138 |  | AFIELD Notes | D kendrick C | |
| #139 |  | A Writer's Block: Robb Grindstaff | Robb Grindstaff, Monalisa Foster | |
| #140 |  | Storyletter XPress Publishing | Winston Malone, Brian Reindel \ud83d\udc7e⚔️, Eleanor Anstruther, Randall Hayes | |
| #141 |  | Simone Francis on Substack | Simone Francis | |
| #142 |  | Femdom Stories by Katt Ford | Katt Ford | |
| #143 |  | Psychofauna | Tyler Alterman | |
| #144 |  | Saints and Stones Newsletter | SL Sourwine | |
| #145 |  | girl journal | kate elizabeth russell | |
| #146 |  | Writing from the Ground Up | Stephanie Dethlefs | |
| #147 |  | Jim’s Substack | Jim Watkins | |
| #148 |  | Wild Writing with Sanjida | Sanjida Kay, Katherine Clements | |
| #149 |  | V.K. Dixon | V.K. Dixon | |
| #150 |  | Moore Will Be Revealed— by Todd Moore | Todd Moore | |
| #151 |  | The Ross Rules | Gary Ross | |
| #152 |  | Pie'd Piper | Amy Wallen | |
| #153 |  | Everything, Edited | Jacquelyn Mitchard | |
| #154 |  | Write a Novel with AI | Dana Pittman | |
| #155 |  | Defending the Wood Perilous | L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright | |
| #156 |  | An Aging Author's Daily Diversions | M. Louisa Locke | |
| #157 |  | OGWiseman's Stories! | Owen Wiseman | |
| #158 |  | The Braille Cave! | Amelia Diaz | |
| #159 |  | DEEP FEMININE | faye boam | |
| #160 |  | JC Andrijeski's Writing Balcony | JC Andrijeski | |
| #161 |  | Karl K. Gallagher's Stories | Karl Gallagher | |
| #162 |  | 50 Years in the Dungeon | Stan! | |
| #163 |  | Brian O'Sullivan's Substack | Brian O'Sullivan | |
| #164 |  | Fiction by Bill Adler | Bill Adler | |
| #165 |  | Him, Her and the Hare | Phil & Jacqui Lovesey | |
| #166 |  | Mundane Magic | Lynn Embick | |
| #167 |  | Arrivals and Departures | Reena Kapoor, Brian Funke | |
| #168 |  | Brittney Hart Writing | Brittney Hart | |
| #169 |  | Sunny A Morgan Author | Sunny A Morgan | |
| #170 |  | The Romantasy | The Romantasy, Tara Green | |
| #171 |  | Bob Hoebeke Books | Bob Hoebeke, Joan Stommen, Deborah T. Hewitt, Rona Maynard, Kathleen Schmidt, Martin Brodsky, Kimberly Warner, Charles R. Jarvis | |
| #172 |  | Freckleman64’s Substack | Freckleman64 | |
| #173 |  | Ablaze With Bella | Bella Blaze, Travis Long | |
| #174 |  | Worst Boyfriend Ever | Worst Boyfriend Ever | |
| #175 |  | The Sylvan Spy | AJ Vanderhorst | |
| #176 |  | Hakuzwimana | Espérance Hakuzwimana | |
| #177 |  | Text Message | melanie | |
| #178 |  | Reading & Writing With Rebecca | Rebecca Faith Heyman | |
| #179 |  | Jackie Cangro's Novel Writing Newsletter | Jacquelin Cangro | |
| #180 |  | Jilly’s Substack | Jilly Bangs Erotica | |
| #181 |  | Backstory Serial | Mary L. Trump | |
| #182 |  | Tyler Sayles | Tyler Sayles | |
| #183 |  | Jonathan Foster's The Crow | Jonathan Foster | |
| #184 |  | Unleash Lit | Unleash Lit | |
| #185 |  | Dystopia, Inc | J.A. Cipriano | |
| #186 |  | Galileo Press | Barrett Warner | |
| #187 |  | In the Inversion Field | Sandolore Sykes, ARC, Morgan Beatty | |
| #188 |  | Phoenix’s Substack | Phoenix Mendoza | |
| #189 |  | The Selkie | Angie Kelly | |
| #190 |  | This Memoir Will Be Written By Robots | Carolyn Cohagan | |
| #191 |  | Rediscovered Realms | J.Q. Graziano | |
| #192 |  | Christoffer Petersen | Christoffer Petersen | |
| #193 |  | Diaries of a Vampire's Girlfriend | Shayne Townson | |
| #194 |  | Words on Words | Kolina Cicero | |
| #195 |  | Notes From The Zetland | Will Varley | |
| #196 |  | restorative romance | Emma | |
| #197 |  | Pulp, Pipe, & Poetry | Frank Theodat, Zack Grafman, Frank Kidd, Brady Putzke, James W. Shrimpton, James Carran, Gaius Warner | |
| #198 |  | Cutting Branches, Anticipating Sunshine | Tim Donahue | |
| #199 |  | Life of Fiction | \ud83d\udc8e Jaime Buckley, Asia Bailey, Morphiophelius (a.k.a. Chuck), Simon Buckley, Dax (a.k.a. Monkey), ⚙️ Höbin Luckyfeller, \ud83d\udc80 Death (as in THE), DW Dixon ⚙️⚙️, Tell Me a Mystery, Ruby Buckley, Roman Buckley, Alhannah Luckyfeller | |
| #200 |  | Consume, The Blog | NJ | |
| #201 |  | Daisy’s Substack | Daisy Goodwin | |
| #202 |  | The Cascadia Chronicles | Jordan Green | |
| #203 |  | Kirsten’s Substack | Kirsten Weiss | |
| #204 |  | Gingerland | Daniel Knauf | |
| #205 |  | Incensepunk Magazine | Jon James, Jake Theriault, You Might Like This, Andrew Gillsmith, Yuval Kordov | |
| #206 |  | Serial City | Virginia | |
| #207 |  | unspooling | c.d. mudge | |
| #208 |  | Writes of Passage | Cathy Standiford | |
| #209 |  | The Palace of Night | Liz Zimmers | |
| #210 |  | The Writing Dog | Korbin Richards | |
| #211 |  | Stephen Metcalfe Words | Stephen Metcalfe, Kieran | |
| #212 |  | Anthony Writes Fantasy | Anthony Lee Phillips | |
| #213 |  | Wolf | radicaledward, Kyle Muntz | |
| #214 |  | Sylvia’s Playground | Sylvia Rose | |
| #215 |  | The Bardsword | Cael J. Amari | |
| #216 |  | The Preferred Story | Fiona Stewart | |
| #217 |  | An Ominous Mistake | Yann Rousselot | |
| #218 |  | Melissa Anne’s Substack | Melissa Anne | |
| #219 |  | Westville | Ryder Hamilton Jones | |
| #220 |  | Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories | Sarah Hinlicky Wilson | |
| #221 |  | sandcastles with kerri maher | Kerri Maher | |
| #222 |  | Zatanna Dark | Zatanna Dark | |
| #223 |  | Every Day is Halloween | Lisa Morton | |
| #224 |  | What the Flock? | Sarah Flocken | |
| #225 |  | Woild Tellings | Isaac Boucher | |
| #226 |  | The Inexistent Library | Andrea Aste | |
| #227 |  | Old Woman, New Life by Mary Pierce | Mary Pierce | |
| #228 |  | \ud83d\udc80 Home-made Creepypasta \ud83d\udc80 | Mark Watson Books, Lorraine Corso | |
| #229 |  | Teach Robots Love | Autumn Christian | |
| #230 |  | The Kennel Club | Elizabeth Oldham (she/her) | |
| #231 |  | 陳又津電波頻道 | 陳又津 | |
| #232 |  | Words of Wrath | Wrath James White | |
| #233 |  | Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales | Sevastian Winters | |
| #234 |  | Cozy Queens & Author Dreams | Cozy Queens & Author Dreams | |
| #235 |  | Starship JJ Green ship's bulletin | J.J. Green | |
| #236 |  | Joey Truman | Joey Truman | |
| #237 |  | SolarPunk Stories | SolarPunk Stories, JD Goulet | |
| #238 |  | The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain | T.H. PLATT | |
| #239 |  | Heartworks House with Miles Miller | Miles H. Miller | |
| #240 |  | Story Cipher | Rachel Arsenault | |
| #241 |  | The Mischievist | Joshua Kent Bookman | |
| #242 |  | Sea Gabriel on Substack | Sea Gabriel | |
| #243 |  | Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook | Jeff Somers | |
| #244 |  | nine story hotel | will christopher baer, Craig Clevenger, C.J. Stockton, Edith Bow, Emil Ottoman, Zani D, wrongdimension, Ute Orgassa, Craig Wallwork, Kristin Peterson | |
| #245 |  | Grace and Storms | Sarah Elizabeth Grace | |
| #246 |  | Zoltan James Substack | Zoltan James | |
| #247 |  | This Writing Life | Lisa Fransson | |
| #248 |  | Episodic | Michael Ahn | |
| #249 |  | Naomi’s Sapphic Monster Erotica Newsletter | Naomi Piper | |
| #250 |  | PEN & PENCIL | Elena Lappin, Denise Dorrance |
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