AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

your grounded guide to an aligned life.

A safe, creative sanctuary where people use writing to connect deeply with themselves, their stories, and each other.

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.

I write about PTSD, trauma, depression, suicide, and schizophrenia for people who’ve survived the worst and are still standing so they can feel seen, stay alive, and slowly rebuild a life worth living.

Weekly dispatches for the perpetually anxious pessimist. Positivity optional, honesty guaranteed.

a newsletter for the feng shui curious on how to use your home (and work space) to remove life's roadblocks

I share inspired thoughts, stories and reflections on life, mothering, and coming home to oneself.

Adventuring with the perfectionist voices in our heads. Stories from the eternal quest to understand ourselves compassionately, break free from our conditioning and parent with love, on our own terms.

Writing like my life depends on it. A little love. A little bloodletting. For the heartbreakers and the broken hearted.

Beautiful poetry alongside curated prompts, delivered every Monday.

Letters on simplifying, turning inward and reshaping the way we mother, make art and meet the world. A place for community, creativity and self exploration. Published weekly with love.

Join me on the wild path--letters on nature, memory, survival, and reclaiming your voice after systems built to keep you small.

What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art. Subscribe to receive a link to my free poetry workshop in your inbox!

Catching the clearer thoughts that mostly arrive in the shower and making art with them.

The Mindful Writer is where we live and write more mindfully and use our words to create positive human connection and bring more peace, love and unity to the world.

Trusted by 36,000+ Substack writers and creators since 2022. Expert guidance for real growth from the world's leading Substack Strategist, Sarah Fay.

Recovery (from anything). Find your badass, kickass, and align with your true self. Coined There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) to name our untouchable wholeness. Cult survivor. Founding editor of Voices on Addiction at The Rumpus.

Novelist and coach helping writers trust their creative rhythm and finish their novels ✨

Where craft meets life. Transform everyday moments into micro prose (<300 words) with weekly prompts, live writing sessions, and creative support.

A twice weekly newsletter chock-full of guidance and support from publishing industry insiders. Expect author interviews, guest blogs, giveaways, and more!

thoughts on softness & the communal ache that binds us all together.

A virtual gratitude journal by writer and teacher, Alex Elle.

The Mother Makers is a thriving symposium for the Mothers, The Makers and the Mystics. Designed to be an honest exploration of the deep dance between Motherhood, Creativity, energetic business and self inquiry into optimism.

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Writing your way out of the restlessness

Helping writers and creators share their work and connect with readers in meaningful ways. Digging deep into marketing, book launches, and platform development. Get my weekly newsletter every Friday.

writing books and making art around the edges of motherhood

food//and the human condition written by a genderqueer mother//and

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Where life + death + humor go to party.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

a chronicle of enthusiasms, from writer Molly Wizenberg

Sometimes you have to throw it out there and see what sticks - thoughts on motherhood, creativity, and being human.

High altitude and high hopes in a town of 180 people (and 51 dogs.)

A newsletter about reading & writing & the never-ending conversation.

Helping create a sustainable path forward for authors to build businesses that allow them to thrive and lives that light them up inside.

a shapeshifting journal by Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of bone, The Terrible, THE HOW and THE CATCH!!!!

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Poetry, craft, and connection. Founder of Gather and lover of em dashes.

Learn how to grow your Substack holistically, without burnout! Master Notes, improve your storytelling, and enjoy the act of writing. No hustle. No posting on 48 platforms. Just great writing that grows your audience.

Thinking through poetry

How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.

Essays, poetry, photography, & creative inspiration on how to be a BETTER human being, chase the light, embrace the dark, & find all the miracles in the mundane from the author of the nationally best-selling "Chasers of the Light" and more.

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

A newsletter for sensitive people

A twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process, with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

Life itself as a creative process.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

A newsletter about facing life's ups and downs, all while being kind to yourself.