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Recommended by Daisy Buchanan

Holly Williams

My Personal Substack

Midulthood

Because if we're not in it together, we're not in it at all...

Square Eyes

By Frances

Thoughts about children's television, and life more generally...

Artnest by Rebecca Armstrong

A newsletter about being a fledgling artist, sharing what I learn at art college - as well as outside of it - and living more creatively

This Debut Life

By Laura Leffler

A countdown to publication

My new favourite Substack! Smart, honest, refreshing, wonderful writing!

- Daisy Buchanan

How to Survive An Existential Crisis

By Nikita Gill

A newsletter about lifelines, creativity, hope, joy, grief, second chances and poetry.

Nikita writes the wisest and most beautiful words - her pieces are wonderful!

- Daisy Buchanan

Savage Hunger by Louise O’Neill

You don’t know what it’s like to be this fucking hungry

Marian’s Substack

By Marian Keyes

My personal Substack

Absolutely! by Shaun Kitchener

Pop cultural nonsense

Betwixt

By Haz + Ellie

Lessons on unraveling the mysteries of your mind. Stories and science from the world’s first evidence-based game for self-awareness, emotion regulation and mental wellbeing.

FictionLand

By Julie Owen Moylan

Talking about all things writing and living an authentic life.

Hype Yourself

By Lucy Werner

📣 👩🏻‍🍳Weekly PR recipe or pitch directory to help you hype yourself when you don't like promoting. 👩🏻‍🏫 Monthly expert lives. 🥗Served with side dishes of personal essays on relocation 🇫🇷 & LDN agency owner to solopreneur.

The Trowel

By Rebecca and Claire

The no BS guide to the products worth owning, the relationships worth having, and the healing worth doing....from the Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Why Did You Stay? A memoir about self worth'.

The Conversation

By Antonia Taylor

Bringing your whole self to your marketing, business + creative life

No F*cks Given® with Sarah Knight

Permission to live your best life and advice on how to do it, from a New York Times bestselling author of sweary self-help. (Me!)

a book or ten

By Marianne Dugdale

Reading and writing thoughts

Keep It Up Fatty!

By Isabel

I won't make you exercise but I will make you read about me doing it. Running, fitness, body image and diet culture, from an award-winning* writer and journalist. *20 years ago

Like a Normal Person

By Julie Fontes

I write very normal essays about my addiction hypochondria, my teeth falling out, being poor, waiting tables, gardening, also parenting both my adult child and myself. "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" -Dolly Parton as Truvy

The Plot Doctor by Donna Freitas

I'm a writer and I'm a book fixer. I love writing and I love helping people with their writing. Big picture, structure, and plot are my thing. I've never met a writing puzzle I didn't want to solve, so let's figure out this writing business together!

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Square’s Substack

By Square Eyes

My personal Substack

Zookie's World

By Gadzooks Marchmain

This is the mad, bad world of Gadzooks "Zookie" Marchmain, troglodyte socialite, and only daughter of Charles Ryder and Julia Marchmain (nee Ryder, Mottram, Flyte).

Gralefrit

By Joel Morris

Writing, podcasts and other stuff by writer Joel Morris.

Legless In Dublin

Access and disability with Louise Bruton

All Is Well, My Darling

By Bryony Gordon

Writing to make you feel good with best-selling author and award-winning mental health campaigner, Bryony Gordon. Plus access to a protected, judgement-free community.

When I feel sad/mad/bad, reading Bryony ALWAYS makes me feel better. She’s one of the kindest, wisest writers around.

- Daisy Buchanan

The Exciting Game of Career Girls

By Kristi Coulter

Interesting women talk about what they wanted to be when they grew up, and what happened instead.

Professionally Resting

By Miss L

Acting, parenting, crisps and tea

Receipt from the Bookshop

By Katie Clapham is Terrible

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.

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith

By Crushed by MCS

Funny people talk to podcaster and actor Margaret Cabourn- Smith about their crushes and unrequited loves.

Just One More Thing

By Jo Usmar

Funny mental health and culture content by award-winning writer Jo Usmar.

I Dare Say with Julia Raeside

By Julia

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

Addressing

By Alice Wilkinson

House sharing, home & belonging

Book(ish)

By Natasha Poliszczuk

books and the pleasures of reading, with the occasional foray into frocks and interiors

Not Too Busy To Write

By Penny Wincer

Writing amongst life’s many other demands

Caring Is Cool

By Ellie Kime

(née Pep Talk) Being unabashedly enthusiastic and unapologetically yourself in a world that doesn't *always* encourage it

We Can't Do It Alone

By Harriet Minter

... and other lessons I've failed to learn. A newsletter about independence, responsibility and how to let go of shouldering it all

Linda's Substack

By Linda @ Substack

Tips and tricks on how to grow your audience and earn money independently from your writing and podcasting. For Substack's official FAQ, go here: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us

Entre Nous

By Sara Tasker

Slow living, online business and personal growth - for creative souls and dreamers.

I've been a fan of Sara's for a long time - she writes in such a warm and inclusive way, and I'm so inspired by her work!

- Daisy Buchanan

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 Lucyverse

By Lucy Sweet

Random and sweary reviews of (pretty much) everything

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

A smart new corner of the internet to talk fashion, feelings and creativity with the former editor-in-chief of ELLE & Cosmopolitan. Plus join my invite-only community. We're nice...I promise.

Culture Café

By Christina Patterson

Making sense of our big, bad, beautiful world. Society, politics, life, books, art, crisps.

The truth about everything*

By The Guyliner

Essays on TV, pop, the media, celebrities, and the crushing reality of twenty-first century existence. I slide into your inbox with the grace of a cow rollerblading down the steps of Leicester Square Tube station.

Justin is one of my favourite cultural commentators of all time - he writes about the serious and the silly with biting wit and real depth.

- Daisy Buchanan

Bargaining

By Heloise Wood

Come bargain with me! As I big up the best BOGFs mostly across South London and explore whether bargain-hunting is all it's cracked up to be.

Love Story

By Laura McKowen

Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

The Reset by Sam Delaney

Mental health without all the bollocks

Mixed Messages

By Isabella Silvers

A weekly newsletter all about the mixed-race experience, with interviews by Isabella Silvers (White British and Punjabi)

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

How to Glow in the Dark

By Neon Literary

Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.

The Single Supplement

By Nicola Slawson

Because single people deserve a newsletter of their own