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  • Fifth Brain Collective

    A Writing Community: All levels. All Genres. All Voices. Coaching and memberships grounded in curiosity and radiant warmth! You already have everything you need to write. We focus on what works and something always, always works.

  • Frankie Rollins

    Writer, writing coach, creative dynamo, and literary architect. Relentlessly protective of creative humans and their right to create.

  • Molly McCloy

    My memoir Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth won the 2023 Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press, to be published in September 2026.

  • Shelby Marie Skumanich

    SM Skumanich (she/they) is a writer and multimedia artist based in Northern Colorado. Exploring memory, landscape, material culture, and the emotional architecture of place. Seeks the sacred in the ordinary.

  • Cassandra O'Neill

    I have a lot of interests and ideas. Some of the common themes are shared leadership, transformational learning, and connecting with others through meaningful conversations. I love helping people work together better and get unstuck.

  • Victor Valdivia

    Writer. Latino. Tucson.

  • Notes From A Quantum Shaman

    Shamanic experiences and life notes

  • ames granados

    I'm an award-winning writer-performer whose memoir that traces the brutal and beautiful through the lens of a late-realized neurodivergent human. I’m writing the book I’ve needed since the world started putting a pencil in hands meant for a keyboard.

  • In My Own Voice

    Writer and author of Barrio Viejo. I write about chronic pain, mental health, identity, memory, family, and the lives we’re trying to build. In My Own Voice shares essays, poems, stories, novel excerpts, and work still becoming.

  • Aleksandra Lazoroska

    Turning snippets of life experiences into stories and reflections.

  • Sandra Shattuck

    a writer and recovering academic

  • Kentaro

    Hi, I’m Kentaro. I write novel monsoon and dance on the sentence. IG: kenjun.rez.castaway

  • Greg Zocher

    I am a Writer, Photographer and Artist - I come to Substack to share ideas and visions of creativity

  • Osahon

    God first. Thinking through writing. Octavia Butler Scholar/ MacDowell fellow.

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