Substacks recommended by Wendy Gray | To Be Livin' Poetry and Prose

Recommended by Wendy Gray

Reflections on Work, Love, and Nature.

My following started with Don's Substack Note; in reading it, my swirling day calmed. Then, had a moment to read a smattering of his writing and- wonderful! So, if you need a good place to find some serenity and read...here you go!

- Wendy Gray

Sinister Malefactor of Panglossian Expectations

By Jane Friedman

Where Jane gets personal about her career choices and the challenges of being an advice giver in the writing and publishing community.

Around the Campfire

By John Roedel

Welcome all seekers and travelers! Welcome to my little campfire. Grab a chair and make a S'more. I know it can be so cold out there in the wild. You are safe here. Can I share a story with you? It's all about how fear is no match for love.

Poetry that meets the raw emotion of life; you'll find it here.

- Wendy Gray

Garbage Notes

By Franco Amati

from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes

Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

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

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

The internet’s most intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers—get an in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

Poor Man's Feast

By Elissa Altman

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

Those 'real life' topics that we know all too well, and place to know we are not alone in experiences. I appreciate the openness here in sharing those hard topics.

- Wendy Gray

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Steady

By Dan Rather

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Have always enjoyed Dan Rather as a journalist. Currently, I appreciate his 'steady' perspective. Plus, he lives in Texas!

- Wendy Gray

Altar for the Hunted Things

By Blake Auden

Reflections on life, writing, poetry and growth, written by Blake Auden.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

A great read and resource for history; the back then and the history being made right now. As an educator, I recommend 'Letters from an American' because, well, teachers love teachers! Teachers support teachers!

- Wendy Gray