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  • Jessica Smock

    Editor of Midstory Magazine. Teacher and researcher. Mom of two. I help midlife women find community on Substack, grow their audience, and build sustainable creative lives.

  • Steph Sprenger

    Gen X writer | producer | podcaster| stand-up comic | single ADHD mom | | The intersection of single parenting, midlife, and neurodivergence | editor of forthcoming anonymous publication Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren't Telling You

  • Kate Hash

    I’m a 40-something novelist and author of your future favorite romantic comedies. \ud83d\udc95 THE MOTHER-IN-LAW BOOK CLUB hits shelves on October 13!

  • Hot Flash Energy

    43, navigating midlife with endometriosis, medical menopause, no kids, and a lot of opinions. Writing about work, life, the body, and coming in hot — without apology.

  • Jes Scoville

    Award-winning poet and essayist writing through the mess—divorce, single mothering, threats to civil discourse, plagues, etc. Delighting in details of the everyday.

  • Denise Derya Brandt

    POSTCARDS & PAGES Newsletter. Debut novel ISTANBUL DREAMING coming from She Writes Press on September 29, 2026.

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    Insightful commentary on the creative life... tough questions to reflect on as you build your creative practice... and building a community to share our insights as we grow together.

  • True STORIES.

    Midwest writer. Elected official. One-time blogger @ True Stories. https://jessicavealitzek.wordpress.com/

  • Uncharted by Jamie Gilpin

    I left the C-suite in tech to find out who I was without it. I didn’t go looking for a spiritual awakening, but here I am writing from the middle of it about burnout, reinvention & feminine leadership. Dropping the armor to lead from alignment.

  • Meghan Moravcik Walbert

    Meghan Walbert has more than two decades of experience as a journalist and writer. She's a former foster parent and is raising her two teenage boys (plus a terrier and a number of fish) with her husband in Eastern Pennsylvania.

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