Substacks recommended by Annie Wood | how to love the world

Recommended by Annie Wood

The Hush and the Howl, with Beth Kephart

an endless entanglement of art and language, prose and paint, seam and stitch

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 Michael & Tom

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.

Prajna O'Hara aka The Salty Crone

Writing the hard healing stories for a dose of medicine and meaning-making when all seems buried or hard to find—to feel alive again and emerge rooted.

Wildly Informative

Your daily dose of Wildlife Updates, Animal discoveries, & Fascinating nature stories! Join 1000+ FREE readers getting Entertained & Informed about our Natural World!

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.

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

Sharing my 'Year of 100 Poems' project. Fiercely feminist. Each week I share some poetry and a prompt. We read and write more poetry together. Join us.

Health and Wellness by Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Articles 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 (formerly Judith’s Substack)

By Judith Hannah Weiss

Resilience, rebuilding, faith, hope, wit, grit, getting older, nature, brain, TBIs, aphasia, amnesia, humans, love, birds and more. Plus my graphics, too.

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

deepening your practice of poetry, mindset, and wonder

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.

- Annie Wood

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

--- listen for the call ➰ trust the longing --- poems + letters on loving the world

Sarah Blondin

mostly journal entries, contemplations, and sometimes meditations.

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.

- Annie Wood

A letter from Pádraig Ó Tuama

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Poetry, Books, Theology

Mind Of A Writer

By Tom Kuegler

Steel your (writing) mind. My goal is to instill a first-class writing mindset in you so you can stay motivated and accomplish your writing dreams.

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.