The Useful and the Beautiful
Jayne Marshall, Carys ShannonWriting, editing, and life in Madrid, Spain - often all at the same time. The Useful and the Beautiful takes its name from an editing principle: remove anything from the page that is neither useful nor beautiful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 60 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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The Author and Its Attached Human Being
On the application form for the course, we were asked to check a box indicating which discipline we most identified with: poetry, fiction or non-fiction. At the time, such delineation suited me very well; I still held fixed ideas on what wr...
'I'm still upset that you left.'
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The Five-Year Itch, One Year On
Have you been to Aranjuez? It’s an odd place, to my eyes. Lots of wide open spaces that feel extra empty because the whole town has an abandoned feel to it. The main plaza doesn’t have anything on it, it's just a big, marble expanse. How od...
How to Debut
The subtitle of this Live, or the second and third parts of the title were: ‘How to Debut as an Author with an Independent Press’. We wanted to experiment with the Live function here on Substack, at the same time as joining forces to share...
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My debut essay collection was published in 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. My second book will be published by Ybernia in 2027. I hold a master's in creative writing (University of Oxford). I'm an editor + Associate Editor of The Madrid Review.
Welsh Writer and Creative Coach living in the Spanish Pyrenees. I help writers find their path and maintain their stride. Expect: books, nature, and the emotional terrain of the writing life. Debut novel, Truth Like Water, out now \ud83d\udcda
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