Substacks recommended by Julia F. Green

Recommended by Julia F. Green

A celebration & exploration of creative nonfiction & the writing life, often through the lens of my own experience.

Allison is a wonderfully talented memoirist with an eye for the quotidian divine. Her substack centers beauty in all its forms, and community I am grateful to be a part of.

- Julia F. Green

Mourning Pages

By Penny Zang

Mourning Pages is a newsletter about writing in the midst of grief. Joy and loss, academia, motherhood, publishing, with a little humor mixed in—all mixed together to show how writing and creativity can fit into anyone's life.

Notes from the Dishwasher Café

By Caroline Manring

A working poet & parent wrangles chaos. Humor as stethoscope, microscope, telescope.

Funny. Brilliant. Lusciously alive, Caroline's essays magnify the moments we miss every day and remind me weekly of the awe of being alive. Oh, and for all you parents, a ton of funny shit about the insults and triumphs of raising humans.

- Julia F. Green

Beginning Where You Are

By Elizabeth M. Johnson

What happens in Vegas NEVER stays in Vegas. Exploring how personal history shows up in everyday life.

No Failure, Only Practice

By Matt Bell

Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly.