Substacks recommended by The Writing Life With Jason Liegois

Recommended by The Writing Life With Jason Liegois

Musings, Mental Meanderings, and Mind Bombs

Thomas Greenbank's Substack; Short Stories, Poems, and Reviews. __ (Paid subs option is enabled, but no content is paywalled)

Holly’s Substack

By Holly Writes Everything

My personal Substack

Kiwiwriter47’s Substack

A Substack of subjects of interest to me...history, politics, writing, family, Asperger's, weird stuff, animals, and humor. For folks to enjoy. Angry trolls can go elsewhere.

The Inquisitive Quad Citizen

By Alison McGaughey

I write about places and people (including myself) that I want to learn more about, and that make the Quad Cities, Eastern Iowa, and/or the Midwest their home. Proud member of the Iowa Writers' Collaborative.

Wonkette

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!

TCT

By William Dailey Jr

DISCOVERY | INSPIRE | EMPOWER

Peter's Scribbles

By Peter Smetanick

Welcome to my writing space. Inside you'll find mostly short stories with some poetry thrown in. Hope you enjoy :)

Filthy Easy Vocab

By Samuel Clemenstein

A humorous newsletter that teaches you new vocabulary words daily

Matthew’s Substack

By Matthew Evans

My personal Substack

Substack Writers at Work

By Sarah Fay

The only expert guide to Substack ✦ Connect with other Substack writers ✦ Join the Substack Growth Cohort to achieve your goals

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

The Protopian

By Austin

Pragmatic idealism for building better futures.

Occam's Lab

By Vanessa Glau

SFF Stories & Notes from the Lab

What Once Was

By Toniann Astuto

A Collection of Poetry

Stock Fiction

By Meg Oolders

A dynamic anthology of experimental short fiction, poetry, essays, humor, and multimedia projects from the fiery heart/busy mind of novelist, Meg Oolders.

Dave Busiek on Media

Viewpoint on current issues in media

Along the Mississippi

By Ed Tibbetts

News, opinions and ideas from the Quad-Cities, where the river runs east to west

I've known Ed Tibbetts for nearly 30 years, since the day I started working for a newspaper that was not the Quad City Times and we began talking about reporting and Iowa and Illinois politics during the lulls of activity of covering public meetings and political rallies. The fact that a newspaper isn't employing him at the moment says more about them than Ed. If you want to know about the Quad Cities and Iowa and Illinois politics, subscribe to Ed.

- The Writing Life With Jason Liegois

Mary Swander’s Buggy Land

By swandermary@gmail.com

The Amish, sustainability, and the wider rural environment.

Art Cullen’s Notebook

A view from rural America: immigration, agriculture, environment, politics

Cosmographia

By M. E. Rothwell

Mapping the world through history, myth, and art.

Iowa politics with Laura Belin

What an Iowa political reporter is reading and writing

Iowa Writers Collaborative

By Julie Gammack

Linking readers and writers who care about Iowa.

The Library

By J. M. Elliott

Check out all the best indie books published right here on Substack

This is a great place to find out about new indie authors. It's just the sort of thing that I was hoping to find when I started writing on Substack.

- The Writing Life With Jason Liegois

Stop Writing Alone

By Nicole Rivera

Stop Writing Alone is a podcast, a community & a philosophy

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

Musings by Trina Astor-Stewart

Sharing stories and artful moments, ideas, and things of interest. Hope you enjoy my Musings... It is all about keeping in touch with you.

Unseen St. Louis

By Jackie Dana

St. Louis history that doesn't get memorialized — but shouldn't be forgotten

Puckerbrush Dispatch

By Joe Murphy

Welcome to the Puckerbrush Dispatch, a mix of photography and short stories highlighting the people behind your next meal and other interesting folks I meet along the way.

Fictionistas

By Jackie Dana

A collaborative community for fiction writers on Substack

Storyletter XPress Publishing

By Winston Malone

Join the indie community where you can get published, grow your audience, and read incredible stories all at the same time.

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

By Céline Gounder

Quality coverage from one of the world's top soccer journalists

Write More with Simon K Jones

Serialised science fiction stories and thoughts on how to be a more productive writer.

Story Cauldron

By Jackie Dana

An eclectic brew of speculative fiction and random thoughts about storytelling

Laura Jedeed

What are the conservatives up to today?

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Thinking about a more beautiful future (and writing a utopian novel about it).

Secretorum

By Roger’s Bacon

Happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal

Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck

By Julie Gammack's Potluck

Julie unearths stories you'll want to read, and or listen to via podcast. She's in the know, so you'll be in the know. She was into 'reader engagement' before 'reader engagement' was a thing. Join the community!

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

By Lucian K. Truscott IV

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

Steady

By Dan Rather

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Situation Normal

By Michael Estrin

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

I started to think of what I wanted to say about this new Substack Notes situation and then I ran across one of his notes that said pretty much what I was thinking. So, I decided to check out the rest of his writing, some of which is pretty funny. You might want to as well.

- The Writing Life With Jason Liegois

Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

Exploring writing, travel, and literature.

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Grace on Football

By Grace Robertson

The Premier League and other football (soccer) nonsense.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Chapter 23 by James Garside

Become evil. Rule the world. Maybe drink tea first and sit down for a bit.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts

By Charlotte Clymer

Politics, religion, culture, and humor from a Christian trans woman. 2023 & 2024 GLAAD Media Award Finalist for Outstanding Blog.

Noheartland

By Andy Kopsa

Jill Filipovic

Politics, women’s rights, foreign affairs, and law

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

The Present Age

By Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.

On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

It has been a great resource for me as a beginning Substack writer to help navigate the platform and get started producing content. I believe it will continue to be useful as I continue to grow on Substack.

- The Writing Life With Jason Liegois