Substacks recommended by how to love the world

Recommended by how to love the world

The Hush and the Howl, with Beth Kephart

An endless entanglement of art and language, prose and paint, seam and stitch. All art and words are copyright@2024, by National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart.

Reza Bavar

Welcome to my dream. I'm Reza Bavar—a global wanderer and introspective thinker. I’ve traveled and lived in six continents. My journey is about discovery and truth. Join me on Substack for reflections, prose, and poetry.

A public notebook.

By Duna

Momentary thoughts turning into essays with some impulsive poetry.

Attention Must Be Paid

By Karen Goldfarb

The name of this newsletter comes from a line from Arthur Miller's great play, "Death of a Salesman." It's about the things we need to talk and care about. I write about culture, politics and the human experience.

Trauma, Growing Up, Waking Up

By Michelle Dixon's Substack: Trauma

Consciousness, awakening, trauma, suffering. Growing up from past wounding versus waking up to non dual reality. Also motherhood and maybe cats.

Substack Campfire 🪵🔥 ⛺

By Tom Kuegler

Join our Substack campfire, where we'll write Notes every day for 4 weeks together. Gather round to make new friends, tell your stories, and learn about writing.

The Pause

By On Being

Replenishment and invigoration. Wisdom to take into your week. Our seasonal Saturday morning ritual — ongoing, advance invitations, extras, and news on all things On Being.

The Salty Crone—Prajna O'Hara

By Prajna O'Hara aka The Salty Crone

Writing from undefended heartbreak—for what has been shunned, lost, or betrayed to be salvaged—to restore feminine love—to explore archetypes, creative imagination, dreams—the return to our soul home.

What Comes Next?

By Abigail Thomas

Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction

The Unstoppable Creator

By Alberto Cabas Vidani

I help you reach your full potential and live your ideal life with a content-based business, using systems, strategy, and mindset.

Write Your World Awake

By Kristin Kaye

For writers, readers, and seekers of all kinds who know that there is so much more to the story. Writing, meditation, mythic imagination, and investigating narratives—on the page and in life.

Art & Cocktails by Ekaterina Popova

Thoughts, sketches, and adventures of an artist. Learning presence, romanticizing life, and finding beauty in daily moments. Kat, an artist and founder of Create! Magazine, loves encouraging fellow creators to build a life on their own terms.

Poetry Pals

By Nelly Bryce

That mate that insists on sending you poetry. Especially the sort that doesn't require a dictionary. Big on feelings. Fiercely feminist. Home of Poetry Pals Book Club.

Health and Wellness by Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Articles and discussions about health, well-being, fitness, self-improvement, personal/professional development, longevity, and disease prevention

Creative Seasoning

By Jackie Daly

Stories, essays, poems and plays that scout the winding trail between grief and creativity, seek meaning and hope after loss. A storyteller, a spiritual seeker: how do we live wholeheartedly alongside our grief?

Let The Words Fall Out

By Mesa Fama

I believe that words can be bridges bringing us to one another. If you're like me and like to dig deeper into ourselves, go beyond the surface of things, and think about our place in all of this, then you'll find a home here.

Creativity Fiends United

By Aimée Brown Gramblin

Where creatives meet creativity...Current Project: 52 Weeks of Audio Memoir Stories on Substack. Listen to Aimée narrate her published memoir, with a new story coming out weekly and a monthly creative 3-2-1 reflection with synthesized recommendations.

Open Secrets Magazine

Open Secrets is an online magazine for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com

Dispatch from Bewilderness (Proudly Niche since 2006)

By Judith Hannah Weiss

Nominated for Best American Essay and Pushcart Prize. Find faith, hope, humor -- plus one former ghost and a few planets -- in posts of 2 minutes or less. Subscribe free. No risk. No obligation.

Amazement Seeker

By Rona Maynard

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

Weekly poetry curations & literary lessons designed to transform your writing life

Things That Don't Suck

By Andrea Gibson

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

5AM StoryTalk

By Cole Haddon

A place to talk about stories in all their forms, the craft that goes into them, and the role art plays in our lives.

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

It's Good to Be Here

By Amy Stewart

Be the artist in residence of your world. Tips, ideas, and inspiration from artist residencies everywhere, from artist and bestselling author Amy Stewart. Supporters get art tutorials and a deeper dive.

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing, podcasts, and shows happening on Substack

when you're feeling a kinda Substack overwhelm, this is a nice roadmap to guide you.

- how to love the world

A Woman of Substances

By Cara Coslow

Tales about the opioid epidemic, casting, and talking to dead people

Cocai Italiano

By Alessandra Nitti

Cocai Italiano - the Italian language school in your pocket This is the interactive learning experience you need to take to level up your Italian. Study whenever you want, wherever you want.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Fog Chaser

By Matt

A new original instrumental song every month from a Pacific Northwest-based musician and composer, along with visuals, poetry, and more.

Appetite for Living

By Amanda Cooke

words for wild hearts 🐚listen for the call ♾️ trust the longing🏹 poems + letters on remembering, reconnection and loving the world

Sarah Blondin

Words that bite at the bone and stumble toward understanding, for those seeking stability only the heart can provide.

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

I realize this talented writer-artist doesn't need my shout-out; he's kinda popular. but, man oh man, i love his lists of things he finds interesting. i always learn something. and he's the first Substack i remember reading. so he's my intro into this world. check him out. you'll thank me. if art, writing and creativity floats your boat.

- how to love the world

A letter from Pádraig Ó Tuama

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Poetry, Books, Theology

The Writing Long Game

By Tom Kuegler

Learn how to grow your blog slowly, while enjoying the act of writing. Stop 'hustling.' Stop posting on 48 platforms. Stop obsessing over views. Just write and enjoy.

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

Situation Normal

By Michael Estrin

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

FlakPhoto Digest

By Andy Adams

A curated newsletter for photography people

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.