Fifth Brain Collective
Fifth Brain Collective, Osahon, Molly McCloy, Cassandra O'Neill, Shelby Marie Skumanich, Greg Zocher, In My Own Voice, Sandra Shattuck, ames granados, Frankie Rollins, Aleksandra Lazoroska, Victor Valdivia, Notes From A Quantum Shaman, KentaroThe most essential tools for being a writer are already inside you. This publication invites you to study how your imagination works, accept the material that comes to you, investigate rituals for your writing practice, and trust your writing impulses.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 82 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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2027 Retreat! No Permission Needed: Writing as a Sacred Experiment
Grandmother mesquite trees at Woodland Water Terrace Ranch, Tucson, AZ, offering a shady place to write.
You’re invited! Read on to learn about the ideas behind our 2027 writing retreat.
Number six on the FBC values list: we claim our own...
You’re invited to Writer’s Refuge! A NEW FBC Membership on Saturdays
We have a big announcement! (We have a lot of big announcements coming up, so stay tuned!)
The Fifth Brain Collective is proud to offer our fourth membership! The Writer’s Refuge with ames granados will meet Saturdays on Zoom from 10-11:30...
Fifth Brain Collective Presents: Occasional Daily Special
Do you long to write, but don’t have the time? During the weekly FBC membership Zoom meetings, we write in 20-minute bursts. This series features examples of what FBC writers have created during that time — you can have a vibrant writing li...
Registration Open! Creative Studio with Osahon Ize-Iyamu Sunday, Sept. 20 on Zoom
The Fifth Brain Collective is thrilled to welcome Osahon Ize-Iyamu as the host of our upcoming Creative Studio.
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Over the years, I have received multiple questions about how to write speculative fiction. The questions...
Fifth Brain Collective Presents: Occasional Daily Special
Do you long to write, but don’t have the time? During the weekly FBC membership Zoom meetings, we write in 20-minute bursts. This series features examples of what FBC writers have created during that time — you can have a vibrant writing li...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
God first. Thinking through writing. Octavia Butler Scholar/ MacDowell fellow.
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.
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.
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.
I am a Writer, Photographer and Artist - I come to Substack to share ideas and visions of creativity
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.
a writer and recovering academic
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.
Writer, writing coach, creative dynamo, and literary architect. Relentlessly protective of creative humans and their right to create.
Turning snippets of life experiences into stories and reflections.
Writer. Latino. Tucson.
Shamanic experiences and life notes
Hi, Iâm Kentaro. I write novel monsoon and dance on the sentence. IG: kenjun.rez.castaway
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