Alice on Sunday

Intimate conversations with writers about accessing the depths of your inner well.

An endless entanglement of art and language, prose and paint, seam and stitch. All art and words are copyright@2024, by National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart.

Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.

Writing, books, craft, publishing & all my other weird obsessions...

Writing news, baby spam, jokes, upcoming classes, prompts, recommendations, and other antics. Once a month-ish.

My personal Substack

For a lesson in taking your time to do a task with care, consider the spider.

Buddhist wisdom for ordinary people on ordinary days. A slow and steady way to an awakened life. Sign up for Cyndi's substack to get monthly meditation prompts and learn about her upcoming retreats and teachings.

What memento would you keep after the death of someone you love? These are the stories of lost loved ones, inspired by the things they left behind. A new story of love + grief every week, plus occasional subscriber bonus content.

Books, art, late bloomers, and midlife authors. Because at midlife, our story is still unfinished.

Randy Susan Meyers examines the ‘what if’ and ‘why" of life in her six novels, grew up in a Brooklyn library and still spends at least half her life reading.

I've needed to write stuff down all of my life. What you'll find here is a little bit of journalism thrown against life experience with a heaping dose of imagination and feeling. Please subscribe to support my efforts.

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it might save yours.

News from the author of MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR

the craft of fiction; how fiction works; and what I'm reading

Tips from the world's best note takers

Short essays about literature, the act of writing, pop culture, fashion, and the strangeness of being a human in the world.

A newsletter on all the ways we recover—and what we recover in the process. Musings and essays on religion, sobriety, grief, and awakenings as well as my ongoing Ph.D. research in reproductive medicine, gender & the body.

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, nature, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Notes from outside the consternation machine

On anxiety, grief, Covid-anxiety and Covid-grief, and how pop culture helps us get through all of it.

Poet and novelist, Sarah Salway offers writing prompts, recommendations and reading suggestions every month with paying subscribers receiving weekly Everyday Words writing workshops designed to fit into a coffee (or wine) break.

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

I'm Fran Hoepfner and this is Fran Magazine.

what I read, how I read, and books that matter

writing about writing, reading, teaching, running, practicing.

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Writing, books, art. Kinship, broadly construed. Advocate for acknowledging tough family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination.