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| Title | Author | Subscribers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  | Story Club with George Saunders | George Saunders | |
| #2 |  | Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay | Sarah Fay, PhD, Susie Bright, Beth Spencer, Seth Werkheiser, Jo Scott, Michelle McQuaid, Denyse Allen, Evie Wright, Dedicate Your Life To Music | |
| #3 |  | Astro Poets | Astro Poets | |
| #4 |  | Footnotes and Tangents | Simon Haisell, Bea Stitches | |
| #5 |  | Sub Club | Sub Club, Benjamin Davis, Kailey Brennan DelloRusso, rachael vaughan clemmons, Bea Becker, M. L. Rio, Nikita, Karina Kupp, Shannan Mann, Jenna Satterthwaite, Shelby Stretton, Sally Ekus, Amber Petty, steve chang, Sasha Landauer | |
| #6 |  | Andrius Tapinas | Andrius Tapinas, Aidas Puklevicius, Simonas | |
| #7 |  | The Hyphen by Emma Gannon | Emma Gannon | |
| #8 |  | Miranda July | Miranda July | |
| #9 |  | The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie | Dr Sharon Blackie, Sarah Wilson | |
| #10 |  | Tom Ryan, Author | Tom Ryan | |
| #11 |  | Books + Bits | Pandora Sykes, Martha, Ochuko Akpovbovbo | |
| #12 |  | Permanent Retrograde | Kelly Oxford | |
| #13 |  | Two Sylvias Press' Weekly Muse | Two Sylvias Press | |
| #14 |  | The Villager | Tom Cox | |
| #15 |  | The Clearing by Katherine May | Katherine May, Kaitlin Curtice, Katy Wheatley, Rebecca Armstrong | |
| #16 |  | David Whyte | David Whyte | |
| #17 |  | Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette | Jeannine Ouellette | |
| #18 |  | Love Story | Laura McKowen, Stephanie Duncan Smith, Sarah Fay, PhD, Jonathan Fields, Elena Brower | |
| #19 |  | Gift Guide | Kaitlin Phillips | |
| #20 |  | CRAFT TALK | Jami Attenberg | |
| #21 |  | Before and After the Book Deal | Courtney Maum | |
| #22 |  | Narratively | Narratively, Guia Cortassa, Elizabeth Laura Nelson, Kerra Bolton, Seth Lorinczi, Noah Rosenberg, Brendan Spiegel, Jesse Sposato, Elizabeth Austin, Brad Scriber, Rebecca Evans, Angie Chuang, Caroline Rothstein, Jerald Walker | |
| #23 |  | Haley Stewart's Newsletter | Haley Stewart | |
| #24 |  | Close Reads Podcast HQ | Goldberry Studios, Heidi White, David Kern, Tim McIntosh, Sean Johnson, Graeme Pitman | |
| #25 |  | Poetry Unbound | Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama | |
| #26 |  | In the Writing Burrow | Margaret Atwood | |
| #27 |  | To a Green Thought | Garth Greenwell | |
| #28 |  | Poetic Outlaws | Poetic Outlaws | |
| #29 |  | Nada importa | Jesús Terrés, Laura Velasco | |
| #30 |  | From the Desk of Amy Suto: Make Writing Your Job | Amy Suto | |
| #31 |  | Badreads | Lauren Hough | |
| #32 |  | Club Bubbly by Beach Reads & Bubbly | Katie of Beach Reads & Bubbly | |
| #33 |  | For Dear Life with Maggie Smith | Maggie Smith | |
| #34 |  | Agents and Books | Kate McKean | |
| #35 |  | Necessary Salt by Joy Sullivan | Joy Sullivan, Leslie Stephens, Chelsea Bieker | |
| #36 |  | Freelance Writing Jobs | Sian Meades-Williams | |
| #37 |  | Levi Coralynn's Diary | Levi Coralynn | |
| #38 |  | Book Enthusiast | Becca Freeman | |
| #39 |  | Seasons of Story by Miranda Mills | Miranda Mills, Donna Mills | |
| #40 |  | FictionMatters | Sara Hildreth | |
| #41 |  | I've Got a Feeling | Molly Wizenberg | |
| #42 |  | The Elif Life | Elif Batuman | |
| #43 |  | An Irritable Métis | Chris La Tray | |
| #44 |  | SUSE IN YOUR POCKET | Suse Kaloff | |
| #45 |  | Lit Mag News | Becky Tuch, john compton, banchiwosen woldeyesus, Gary Grossman, RW Spryszak, Tom Barlow, Jessica Dylan Miele, McKenzie Watson-Fore | |
| #46 |  | Publishing Confidential | Kathleen Schmidt | |
| #47 |  | News & Reviews by Bri Lee | Bri Lee, Lucianne Tonti, Sam Devenport | |
| #48 |  | Arts & Letters Daily | Arts & Letters Daily | |
| #49 |  | Mad Woman | Amanda Montei | |
| #50 |  | Memoir Land | Sari Botton, Memoir Land, Emily J. Smith, Judith Hannah Weiss, Lavinia Spalding, Adaeze Elechi | |
| #51 |  | Between a Rock and a Card Place | Caroline Cala Donofrio | |
| #52 |  | How to Glow in the Dark | Anna Sproul-Latimer, Eloy Bleifuss Prados, Kent D. Wolf | |
| #53 |  | Can I Ask You a Personal Question? | Diablo Cody, JennyMollen, Caroline Smith, Curtis Rich | |
| #54 |  | Everything is Personal | Laurie Stone | |
| #55 |  | The Common Reader | Henry Oliver, Katherine Dee, Julianne Werlin, James Marriott, Klara Feenstra, Agnes Callard | |
| #56 |  | StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz | Junot Díaz | |
| #57 |  | Poetry Today | Maya C. Popa | |
| #58 |  | Between | Rebecca Jones | |
| #59 |  | Nervous Laughter | Rick Morton | |
| #60 |  | Rejoice Evermore | Spencer Klavan, Jos. Alto | |
| #61 |  | Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak | Elif Shafak | |
| #62 |  | Many Meetings | Breanne Rodgers | |
| #63 |  | Out of It | Mary Gaitskill | |
| #64 |  | #AmWriting | KJ, Candace Coakley, Stuart Wakefield, Amy L Bernstein, Sarina Bowen, Jennie Nash, Jessica Lahey, Sara Gentry, Sabrina Estudillo Butler | |
| #65 |  | A Writer's Notebook | Summer Brennan | |
| #66 |  | Attention Economy | Leigh Stein | |
| #67 |  | CARESCAPES | Margeaux Feldman | |
| #68 |  | Sherman Alexie | Sherman Alexie | |
| #69 |  | Unstacked | Traci Thomas, Sara Hildreth, Cree Myles | |
| #70 |  | the utter | Yrsa Daley-Ward | |
| #71 |  | Practising Simplicity | Jodi Wilson | |
| #72 |  | Black Eyed Stories | Marcie Alvis Walker (she/her), Marcie Alvis Walker | |
| #73 |  | The Commonplace | Tsh Oxenreider, Tatum Oxenreider | |
| #74 |  | The Sophist | The Sophist | |
| #75 |  | Welcome to Garbagetown | Catherynne M. Valente | |
| #76 |  | Prufrock | Micah Mattix, John Wilson | |
| #77 |  | Classical Ideals | Megha Lillywhite | |
| #78 |  | Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe | Jane Ratcliffe, Joanna Rakoff | |
| #79 |  | Write Conscious | Ian Cattanach | |
| #80 |  | g l i m m e r s | Kerri ní Dochartaigh | |
| #81 |  | ASK MOLLY | Heather Havrilesky | |
| #82 |  | Human Stuff | Lisa Olivera | |
| #83 |  | Magical Thinking by Leticia Sala | Leticia Sala | |
| #84 |  | Book Post | Ann Kjellberg | |
| #85 |  | The Creative Shift by Dan Blank | Dan Blank | |
| #86 |  | Coordenadoras do Caos | Coordenadoras do Caos | |
| #87 |  | Joy Clarkson | Joy Marie Clarkson ☀️ | |
| #88 |  | The Sharpener | Sean Singer | |
| #89 |  | J.F. Riordan; Reflections on a Life in Exile | J. F. Riordan | |
| #90 |  | REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang | Esmé Weijun Wang, Eleanor Stern, The Despite System, Susie Schwartz, Breeann Adam | |
| #91 |  | Shangrilogs | Kelton Wright, Kana Chan | |
| #92 |  | The Unseen Review | Jessie Lethaby | |
| #93 |  | Brittany's Notebook | Brittany Viklund | |
| #94 |  | MONDAYS ARE FREE | Ross Gay, Vaughan Ashlie Fielder, Patrick Rosal | |
| #95 |  | Rian’s Substack | Rian Stone | |
| #96 |  | Beyond Bloomsbury | Victoria K. Walker | |
| #97 |  | Thunder Pie | Serge Bielanko, Arle Bielanko | |
| #98 |  | The Writing Shed with Tommy Tomlinson | Tommy Tomlinson | |
| #99 |  | Punto de Inflexión | María Fornet | |
| #100 |  | Canal Street Dreams | Eddie Huang | |
| #101 |  | White Ink with Anna Wharton | Anna Wharton | |
| #102 |  | The Biblioracle Recommends | John Warner | |
| #103 |  | I've Been Thinking... | Elizabeth Berg | |
| #104 |  | Zibby's Highlights | Zibby Owens | |
| #105 |  | Dianne Jacob's Newsletter | Dianne Jacob | |
| #106 |  | The Big Read | Jeremy Anderberg, Kyle Smith | |
| #107 |  | Chapter Break | Alyssa Matesic, J.T. Ellison, Chelsea Bieker | |
| #108 |  | LitWorth | Jacob Jans (He/Him), Lily Canter | |
| #109 |  | CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY | Christian Lorentzen | |
| #110 |  | Serious Literary Author | Daniel Piper | |
| #111 |  | SHuSH, by Kenneth Whyte | ken whyte | |
| #112 |  | milk fed | caitlyn | |
| #113 |  | Literary Leanings | Michelle Martin | |
| #114 |  | Poems Ancient and Modern | Poems Ancient and Modern, Joseph Bottum, Sally Thomas, Fr Robert Krishna OP | |
| #115 |  | A Year of Writing Dangerously | Summer Brennan | |
| #116 |  | Cup of Stars | Carmen Maria Machado | |
| #117 |  | What the Hell is Michael Jamin Talking About? | Michael Jamin | |
| #118 |  | From the Desk of Marlowe Granados | Marlowe Granados | |
| #119 |  | Notebook | BDM | |
| #120 |  | Closely Reading | haley larsen, phd, Scott Newstok | |
| #121 |  | Chill Subs Newsletter | Chill Subs, Benjamin Davis, Kailey Brennan DelloRusso, Karina Kupp, Shelby Stretton | |
| #122 |  | Something True | Maia Toll | |
| #123 |  | Write What | Stephanie Danler | |
| #124 |  | FrizzLit | Christopher Frizzelle, Melissa Wiley, Jake Rummel | |
| #125 |  | Crumpstack | Mike Crumplar | |
| #126 |  | Misfits & Daydreamers | Susan Dennard | |
| #127 |  | Chrissie Writes Newsletter | Chrissie Wright | |
| #128 |  | The Dream Baby Press Substack | Dream Baby Press, Matt Starr | |
| #129 |  | Short Story | Palisatrium | |
| #130 |  | The Direction of Motion | Kathy Valentine | |
| #131 |  | Around the Campfire | John Roedel | |
| #132 |  | Open Book Club NYC | Liz, emily north, Ochuko Akpovbovbo | |
| #133 |  | Grand Hotel Abyss | John Pistelli | |
| #134 |  | Gary’s Journey Through Hell | Gary Shteyngart | |
| #135 |  | How Do You Read It? | How Do You Read It? | |
| #136 |  | THE ARK | The Ark | |
| #137 |  | Le Grain par Louise Morel | Louise Morel | |
| #138 |  | The Privilege to Feel | Stephanie Land | |
| #139 |  | Book(ish) | Natasha Poliszczuk | |
| #140 |  | Rabbit Room Poetry | The Rabbit Room | |
| #141 |  | Stevereads | Steve Donoghue | |
| #142 |  | Digital Liturgies | Samuel D. James, Brad Littlejohn | |
| #143 |  | Sol Luckman Uncensored Updates & Uploads | Sol Luckman, Dawn Lester, IPR with Mack Morris, Denby Sheather, Jacqueline Rendell | |
| #144 |  | NewPages Newsletter | NewPages, Nicole Foor | |
| #145 |  | SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE | Meaghan Garvey | |
| #146 |  | Writerly Things with Brooke Warner | Brooke Warner | |
| #147 |  | The Querent | Alexander Chee | |
| #148 |  | SLANT LETTER | Stephanie Duncan Smith | |
| #149 |  | cara says it all | cara alwill | |
| #150 |  | Dispatches From the Basement | Joseph Massey | |
| #151 |  | Untitled Thought Project | Catherine Lacey | |
| #152 |  | New England Literary News | Nina MacLaughlin | |
| #153 |  | Not So Secret Agent | Sally Ekus | |
| #154 |  | Who Wrote Shakespeare | Who Wrote Shakespeare, Kristin Bundesen, Robin Williams, David W Richardson, Professor William Leahy, Annabel Leventon, Julia Cleave, Dr R Barber | |
| #155 |  | Meditations in an Emergency | Rosecrans Baldwin | |
| #156 |  | en el medio pasó el mar | Nicole | |
| #157 |  | Chronically Chill | Neghar Fonooni | |
| #158 |  | Dr. Mardy's Substack | Dr. Mardy Grothe | |
| #159 |  | TCF Emails | Tracy Clark-Flory | |
| #160 |  | Submission Sunday | Chris Daley | |
| #161 |  | Under a Fig Tree | Gabriela Gutierrez | |
| #162 |  | Emerging Form | Christie Aschwanden, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | |
| #163 |  | Chloé in Newsletter | Chloé Williams | |
| #164 |  | Reasons Not to Quit | Hanne Blank Boyd | |
| #165 |  | Unsolicited Existence | Alejandra Smits | |
| #166 |  | Huw Lemmey's 'Utopian Drivel' | Huw Lemmey | |
| #167 |  | Witness | Robert Jones, Jr. | |
| #168 |  | Meghan O'Rourke's Substack | Meghan O'Rourke | |
| #169 |  | Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society | Ann Kennedy Smith | |
| #170 |  | Catching Shower Flowers by Tess Guinery | Tess Guinery | |
| #171 |  | Public Figment | Dot Dannenberg | |
| #172 |  | The Raft | Phyllis Cole-Dai, Hannah Nugent | |
| #173 |  | You Are a Story | Will Storr | |
| #174 |  | Extracurricular | Tembe Denton-Hurst | |
| #175 |  | Nevoeiro | Carol Bensimon | |
| #176 |  | Dividual | Blake Butler | |
| #177 |  | Overheard | Esther Cohen | |
| #178 |  | Tao Lin | Tao Lin | |
| #179 |  | Hot Literati | Hailo, nwakaego, Victoria, Sarah, Hailey Cognetti, Ananya, Ceri Agency, A The Narrator | |
| #180 |  | Eglė Lukinaitė-Vaičiurgienė | rašytoja, psichologė | Eglė Lukinaitė-Vaičiurgienė | |
| #181 |  | Read More Books | Jeremy Anderberg | |
| #182 |  | Mini 1000 | Jami Attenberg | |
| #183 |  | ItsBookTalk & More | Renee - Itsbooktalk & More | |
| #184 |  | Lethal Minds | Lethal Minds Journal | |
| #185 |  | Kate Granger Fiction | Kate Granger | |
| #186 |  | Breccia by Ruth Allen | Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS Accred) | |
| #187 |  | Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt | Wendy Pratt | |
| #188 |  | Study the Great Books | Jacob Allee | |
| #189 |  | Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse | Devin Kelly | |
| #190 |  | HollyWould | Holly Solem | |
| #191 |  | First Draft with Fatima Farheen Mirza | Fatima Farheen Mirza | |
| #192 |  | thot pudding | Sarah Thankam Mathews | |
| #193 |  | Shaw and Moore | Kim Moore and Clare Shaw | |
| #194 |  | Letters From the Desert | Chris Clarke | |
| #195 |  | Lucy’s Substack | Lucy Sante | |
| #196 |  | Poetry Bulletin | Emily Stoddard | |
| #197 |  | Read the Classics with Henry Eliot | Henry Eliot | |
| #198 |  | BOYS LOVE POETRY | Dusty Brandt Howard | |
| #199 |  | Earth and Verse | Alix Klingenberg | |
| #200 |  | Creative Confidence Clinic | Daisy Buchanan | |
| #201 |  | Romancing the Phone | Alyssa Morris | |
| #202 |  | Thomas Sheridan - Our Different Levels of Archetype | Thomas Sheridan | |
| #203 |  | AvantPrince’s Substack | AvantPrince | |
| #204 |  | Hungry Dogs with James Patterson | James Patterson | |
| #205 |  | Wild Writing | Britany Robinson | |
| #206 |  | Cartas virtuales \ud83d\udc8c por Aniko Villalba | Aniko Villalba | |
| #207 |  | Midstory Magazine | Jessica Smock, Steph Sprenger, Andra Watkins, Robin Finn, Deborah Siegel-Acevedo | |
| #208 |  | Janel’s Substack | Janel moloney | |
| #209 |  | Silly Games to Save the World | glynmaxwell@gmail.com | |
| #210 |  | Office Hours with The Tarot Professor | Annie Aboulian | |
| #211 |  | Jonathan Edward Durham’s Substack | Jonathan Edward Durham | |
| #212 |  | Sassolini | Alessia | |
| #213 |  | GETTING TO NAKED | Finn Deerhart | |
| #214 |  | Gunnar Kaiser | Gunnar Kaiser | |
| #215 |  | A reading life | Petya K. Grady | |
| #216 |  | Writers Circle | Writers Circle | |
| #217 |  | Low Down and Dirty | Alan Paul | |
| #218 |  | Woman of Letters | Naomi Kanakia | |
| #219 |  | Craft with Kat | Kat Lewis | |
| #220 |  | Book Alchemy | Caroline Donahue, Daisy Buchanan, G.G. Law, Tara Calihman, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, JP Watson | |
| #221 |  | Amazement Seeker | Rona Maynard | |
| #222 |  | Finding Lost Voices | Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Sands Hall | |
| #223 |  | Breakthroughs & Blocks | Breakthroughs & Blocks, Bec Evans, Chris Smith | |
| #224 |  | And a Dog | Dr Lily Dunn | |
| #225 |  | interruptions | Cameron Steele | |
| #226 |  | Frump Feelings | Emma Copley Eisenberg | |
| #227 |  | Lit Angels | Francesca Lia Block, Sarah Sunfire, Alex Moreno, Melissa Pleckham, Michael Scott Moore, Felicity Landa, Sarah Spurlock, Linda Davis, Nathan Buck, Reid Delehanty, Kayla Miller, Carol Faw | |
| #228 |  | Beyond the Bookshelf | Matthew Long, Melissa Joulwan, Terry Freedman, Rick Mandler, Reina Cruz, Holly A Brown, Arthur Macabe | |
| #229 |  | Aimee Liu's MFA Lore | Aimee Liu, Lisa Maguire, Lucinda Garthwaite, Dinah Lenney, Georgia Jeffries, Elizabeth Rosner, Elena Georgiou | |
| #230 |  | Books & Bakes | Laura Sackton | |
| #231 |  | By Plane or By Page | Sarah Stewart Holland | |
| #232 |  | PASSAGES: Travel the USA and more! | Toby Neal | |
| #233 |  | Vagina Devil Magic by Lisa Lee Curtis | Lisa Lee Curtis | |
| #234 |  | The Morning, Brilliant Blue | Michael Tomlinson | |
| #235 |  | Sacred Word with Jaiya John | Dr. Jaiya John | |
| #236 |  | Appetites | Jenna Rozelle | |
| #237 |  | Orwell Daily | The Orwell Foundation, George Orwell | |
| #238 |  | Jenna's Substack - Author + Agent + Human | Jenna Satterthwaite | |
| #239 |  | KHÔRA | Khôra, Marina Gross-Hoy, Leigh Hopkins, nawa angel (a.h) | |
| #240 |  | The Writing Laboratory | London Lit Lab, Dr Lily Dunn | |
| #241 |  | Geneva Bible Readings by Naomi Wolf | Dr. Naomi Wolf | |
| #242 |  | It'll Be Fun, They Said | Jess Pan | |
| #243 |  | In Writing with Hattie Crisell | Hattie Crisell, Tor Freeman | |
| #244 |  | Diary of a Lifelong Space Cadet | Kate Sweeney | |
| #245 |  | METHOD & MADNESS | Aaron Gwyn, Brad Kelly, UNTOPIA | |
| #246 |  | Word Witch | Kate Belew | |
| #247 |  | Pam Houston | Pam Houston | |
| #248 |  | COVEN (by Anna Marie Tendler) | AMT | |
| #249 |  | Subversion Through Friendliness | Moe Bowstern | |
| #250 |  | APS Together | A Public Space |
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