The Cosmic Cheeto
Rafael Frumkin, Sophia Shalmiyev, Katie MacBride, Narratively Academy, Chris Harrigan, Elissa Bassist, Maria Kuznetsova, Alexandra Hidalgo, Kat Rosenfield, Sarah Flocken, Brodie Crellin, Ali Kriegsman, Patrick Cottrell| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 168 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Novelist writing long-form essays on identity, literature, and living an unchartered life. Narrative nuance over political polemic. Post-postmodern & ideologically unoptimized: a real wife’s wife.
feminist. writer. artist.
Dog lover, goat-wrangler, and bath taker. Journalist and Ask a Sober Lady newsletter writer. Words in New York Magazine, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Slate, & Longreads, among others.
Narratively Academy is a creative community for writers to hone your craft and develop all the tools you need to pursue your writing and publishing dreams—through intimate classes, live videos, how-to guides, community chats, and much more.
I read the internet and I edit The Story.
Author of HYSTERICAL, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor / Co-author of INSIDE JOKES: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers (out Oct. 20th) / Humor writing teacher / Virgo
Forever juggling writing, academia, motherhood, marriage, and family. I write to help me and my readers turn heartbreaks and frustrations into delicious insights and wondrous joys.
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
I write unhinged fiction for smiley people who are silently enraged (all of us). My debut novel BE WELL (Heliotrope, 2026) is out now! Come for the thoughts on my writing process, stay for the dumb puns.
obsessed with ambition, the internet, e-commerce and myself.
Denver, CO. author of afternoon hours of a hermit and sorry to disrupt the peace. basketball fan
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