Fifth Brain Collective
Fifth Brain Collective, Victor Valdivia, Notes From A Quantum Shaman, ames granados, Diana Corrales Jaramillo, Leigh D. C. Spencer, Molly McCloy, Shelby Marie Skumanich, Aleksandra Lazoroska, Cassandra O'Neill, Sandra Shattuck, Kentaro, Frankie Rollins, Greg ZocherThe 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 | 79 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Frankie Rollins, writer and teacher, founded the Fifth Brain Collective to converse with seekers about writing and creativity with a radiant warmth and the belief that a writer has what they need to write, always and already, in their fifth brain.
Writer. Latino. Tucson.
Shamanic experiences and life notes
I'm an award-winning writer-performer who uses experimental creative nonfiction as a liberatory practice for a late-realized AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD) brain navigating a world built for neurotypicals. Raw, humorous, and inexplicably hopeful.
Writer. Facilitator. Storyteller. I use writing as a form of healing, resistance, and remembering. This space is for anyone who has ever felt silenced, broken, or too much. Here, we write anyway.
Anxious, likeable weirdo. Writes. Bakes. Loves dogs.
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.
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.
Turning snippets of life experiences into stories and reflections.
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.
a writer and recovering academic
Hi, I’m Kentaro. I write novel monsoon and dance on the sentence. IG: kenjun.rez.castaway
Writer, writing coach, creative dynamo, and literary architect. Relentlessly protective of creative humans and their right to create.
I am a Writer, Photographer and Artist - I come to Substack to share ideas and visions of creativity
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