Substacks recommended by Nina Barufaldi

Recommended by Nina Barufaldi

Poets Colin Cheney and Cate Marvin offer a newsletter of prompts, craft essays, recommendations, and new poems. Holy Gossip is a community to sustain, nourish, surprise, and re-engage our poet-selves contending with a world hostile to poetry.

I studied with Cate Marvin. She's smart, candid, and can navigate her way around inside any piece of writing.

- Nina Barufaldi

Diary of a Novel with Soman Chainani

A weekly journal about writing my first original novel since THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL.

This is my daughter's favorite author, as such he is also mine. He's funny and real, too.

- Nina Barufaldi

KILLING EVE

By Luke Jennings

Official Substack of Killing Eve creator Luke Jennings. Subscribers get weekly instalments of new Killing Eve adventures. Paid subscribers get exclusive access to bonus and behind-the-scenes material.

Oh, Luke Jennings makes his writing and his craft accessible. One stop shopping like this is such a treat for a fan and someone who wants to learn how to write well.

- Nina Barufaldi

Leah is a Writer

By Leah Scott-Kirby

A glimpse inside this silly brain of mine. Crafting creativity. Questioning everything. Inspired by most things.

A Reader's Compendium

By Sarah Orman

a newsletter for people who consider reading and writing a way of life

The Shrieking Cactus

By Joy V.

Weekly musings for prickly people recovering from trauma and/or learning to love themselves (and the world in general). From writer, nature lover, and recovering crankypants, Joy V.

Bar Harbor Story

By Carrie Jones

News and features from Bar Harbor, Maine, and Mount Desert Island.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Sarah Blondin

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

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.