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Recommended by Justin Myers

I'm Amy. I wrote a book once. I make video games now. Sometimes, I write newsletters

Funny and insightful, Amy is a beautiful writer, especially passionate about popular culture and cooking. You never quite know what you're going to get each week and that is part of the fun.

- Justin Myers

Second Chapter

By Cori Schwabe

Second Chapter is an interview series focused on sharing how writers went from their first career to being a published author.

Fascinating interviews with writers at all stages of their careers.

- Justin Myers

A Word About...

By Benjamin Dreyer

Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.

Amusing, engaging, and artfully written, what Benjamin doesn't know about words, language and theatre isn't worth knowing.

- Justin Myers

Lunch Hour Links

A weekly selection of links to keep you interested and inspired while you're eating lunch. Expect articles, books, podcasts, TV shows and more.

Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what's happening in the corners of the internet but is too scared to delve – I've read and loved LHL for years.

- Justin Myers

Nobody Wanted This

By Lauren Bravo

I pitched it, they rejected it, I wrote it anyway.

I've enjoyed Lauren's work for a long time and her Substack is funny, honest, and relatable.

- Justin Myers

Conversations on Love with Natasha Lunn

An email newsletter investigating love, one conversation at a time

Perfect Pop Moments

By Sophie Hall

What's your favourite bit of a certain song? You know, that *bit*. That bit that three wines in, makes you want to lose your mind? Join us on a pop pilgrimage as we discover those special moments of songs that make life worth living.

If you have ever sat listening to a song and it gets to your favourite part and you're dying to just tell someone how much you adore it, this Substack is for you.

- Justin Myers

Freelance Writing Jobs

By Sian Meades-Williams

Helping writers earn millions of pounds in commissions since 2018. Calls for pitches, creative submissions, freelance and part-time writing jobs. All UK-based. Compiled by Sian Meades-Williams.

Sian's comprehensive job and writing competition guide is essential reading for any writer in need of a gig, or a boost.

- Justin Myers

It'll Be Fun, They Said

By Jess Pan

Writer in London working at a tiny indie London bookshop + latest news from my book - Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

Hilarious, masterful essays that I could read for ever. In fact, I might.

- Justin Myers

The Friday Obsession

By Louise Hare

Whatever I've been obsessing over this week...

HOME & HORT by JP Clark

A multi-award winning home renovation and garden makeover expert. Home & Hort is a celebration of interior design, gardening, life, culture, crafts & seasons. Expert tips & dollops of joy from me to you.

Happy Endings

By Keris Fox

Writing, reading, music, cooking, procrastinating, flailing. And cat pics.

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

The Writing Path

By Alison

Reflections on Writing and Walking

Popjustice

By Peter

21st Century Pop

Receipt from the Bookshop

By Katie

My weekly post - Receipt from the Bookshop - is written in real time from my award-winning independent bookshop in St. Annes-on-Sea, UK. Paid subscribers also get an additional weekly essay/book review and access to my book club.

Katie's weekly liveblogs about her days behind the counter at her beautiful bookshop are hilarious, and there's loads of book recs and musings on life and literature too!

- Justin Myers

bimblings by Josie George

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

Josie writes so beautifully and movingly about her life and the world around us, you won't regret it.

- Justin Myers

Creative Confidence Clinic

By Daisy Buchanan

A community for writers at every stage of their journey

Daisy is a hugely entertaining and funny writer and her essays on life, self-confidence and the art of writing are always packed with heart.

- Justin Myers

I Dare Say with Julia Raeside

By Julia

Some things that it might be useful to see written down.

Julia writes brilliantly about TV and pop culture and pulls precisely zero punches!

- Justin Myers

cherry bomb

By Amani Hope 💌

Reviewing life, reviewing books.

On the Verge

By Natalie

Personal essays on grief, love, friendships, young adulthood, and the small things in life.

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

A life raft for writers at sea

Follow Friday by Eric Johnson

Podcasts, videos, internet culture, and links to the best stuff I've seen online this week

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

The Lucyverse

By Lucy Sweet

I review everything that comes out of the sewage pipe of capitalism!

Lucy's weekly rummages through the very worst of whatever B&M are stocking that week – and other wider consumer horrors of the universe – are incredible. Every line a gem.

- Justin Myers

Doughnuts for Breakfast with Laura Price

Notes on food, books, careers, writing and breast cancer, from the author of Single Bald Female and host of Life in Food with Laura Price

Self-Styled Siren

The musings of an old-movie lover

Interesting Times

By Eleanor Barron

The most interesting bits of the internet: high and low, old and new - Journalism, Books, and Art - brought to you on the last Friday of every month.

The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

By Jonn Elledge

assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else

The Sophist

Wisdom for idiots, the love of fools, and houses worth lusting over.

Mononym Mythology

By Sydney Urbanek

Research-based musings on popular music x moving images, now at sydurbanek.ghost.io

Pull Up A Chair

By Lily

Welcome to my small part of the internet, my one-person magazine. This is what we'd be chatting about if you came into my kitchen and I invited you to pull up a chair and have a coffee.

She Dares To Say

By Almaz Ohene

Interrogating sexual desire

I <3 Mess

By Emily Kirkpatrick

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap. Welcome to your weekly round up of the best of the worst celebrity fashion annotated with my many, many opinions.

Huw Lemmey's 'Utopian Drivel'

By utopian drivel

weekly essays on sex, history, memory and more, by Huw Lemmey

Conquest of the Useless

By Mic Wright

Honest media criticism from a complete arsehole.

Young Vulgarian

By Marie Le Conte

Behold! I have had a thought.