Substacks recommended by Nathan Slake

Recommended by Nathan Slake

Lindenblätter

By L.J. Gearing

Leaves that fall from the Linden tree.

A friend who writes with pencil-sharpened precision, wit and cleverness.

- Nathan Slake

Neural NeXus

By David Kingsley

Biotech, AI, health, and their intersection

Bite-size news updates on biotech-related topics. David does an amazing job of distilling fundamental and translational research news from across biology into easy-to-understand snippets, with references and links to primary sources should you wish to delve deeper.

- Nathan Slake

Poetry & Process

By Brian Funke

A haven, weaving words into life through Poem, Reflection, and Exchange.

Brian has helped ease me into an appreciation and deeper understanding of poetry -- both his own wondrous words and those of others.

- Nathan Slake

Yoga & Writing

By Kathleen Clare Waller

I explore the crossroads of Yoga & Writing. Philosophy. Practical ideas. Discussions. From author and yoga teacher Kathleen Waller.

Moving your mind and body with deep thoughts, questions and ideas.

- Nathan Slake

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Chloe writes about Death & Birds. Sometimes Death. Sometimes Birds. Sometimes both. Regardless of which, the writing is intricate, deep, layered, personal, beautiful ... all kinds of things that make you feel as though her writing is hugging and embracing you.

- Nathan Slake

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

Dans Deliberations

By Daniel O’Donnell

The endless imagination

Superb short stories and flash fiction, often with a horror/supernatural twist, along with excellent essays on film and TV. A must read!

- Nathan Slake

Tales from the Defrag

By Alexander Ipfelkofer

Fiction at the intersection between humanity and technology, speculative journeys through time interspersed with adventure, mystery, philosophy and the occasional alien. Stay a while and listen.

Defragging your mind with a heady blend of short fiction, thoughts on fiction and deep insights on literature.

- Nathan Slake

Microseasons

By Ann Collins

A Field Guide to Savoring 72 Seasons of the Year

Ford Knows Books

By FORD KNOWS

Essays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books

Always a delight, always jammed with delicious things, always written with panache. You never know what's coming ... but by Ford does Troy sure know.

- Nathan Slake

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Practice Space

By Andrei Atanasov

A blog, a newsletter, an ongoing collection of essays and stories. Most of what I write and finish ends up here.

Not Quite Real

By Silvio Castelletti

Suspended Fictions

Personal stories and autofiction written with beautiful, fluid prose. Everything Silvio writes is a wonder and joy to read.

- Nathan Slake

Straw Hat Scribe

By Vanessa Glau

Japan-Inspired Fantasy & Science Fiction Stories

Fantasy and SciFi stories, as well as thoughts on culture, language and life in Japan and elsewhere. All well worth your time.

- Nathan Slake

magpie writes, with love

By E. A. Fareman

The writings of E. A. Fareman: SFF stories & essays about doing better, being kinder, finding our ways, and stopping to wonder. 💫 Also writing updates on my first novel in progress: To Rise On Borrowed Wings.

SciFi, Fantasy and essays that are insightful, inspiring and moving. Elnora has an incredible voice and talent with words.

- Nathan Slake

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

All things notes. Note-taking, reading other people's noted, realising that your notes aren't as good as other notes, that you can't draw or illustrate or write neatly, but none of that matters because you leave inspired by reading about all these wonderful notes!

- Nathan Slake

Pen Friend

By Hannah Meltzer

A letter from Paris, straight to your virtual doormat

A pen friend in Paris, writing lovely words about Paris and France and bread and making me want to travel more.

- Nathan Slake

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

A life raft for writers at sea

Wholesome and insightful words (and podcast) about all things writing, the writing process, and books.

- Nathan Slake

The Matterhorn: truth in fiction

By Kathleen Clare Waller

fiction • word sketches • The Brunch

With intellectual insights into fiction, culture and place, Kathleen's posts, podcasts and resources make you think deeper about writing, reading and the world around you.

- Nathan Slake

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

By Terry Freedman

Reflections on literature * Musings on everyday life * Book reviews * Experiments in creative nonfiction writing * Humour

Witty, razor sharp thinking on literature and lots of other things. A delight to read.

- Nathan Slake

One Word

By Taegan MacLean

Every word is a universe. Let's explore them together.

Combining elegant and powerful prose with video, One Word explores single words in ways that will move your mind. Taegan is a master craftsman. I hope you check out his Substack.

- Nathan Slake

STORY VOYAGER

By Claudia Befu

A fiction studio at the edge of nature, myth and technology.

Intricate, deep and wonderful SciFi/CliFi writing, from short stories to articles on worldbuilding.

- Nathan Slake

Fog Chaser

I write and share a new instrumental song every month, perfect for focus, healing, and calming your fried nervous system.

Beautiful, beautiful music, and thoughts on music, and selections of poetry that goes with said music. Just generally beautiful stuff.

- Nathan Slake

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