Substacks recommended by Claire Venus ✨

Recommended by Claire Venus ✨

A useful, irreverent cheat sheet to the world of wellness by a British journalist, cancer survivor and sceptical optimist

Creative, Inspired, ALIVE

By Evelyn Skye & Joanna Phoenix

Welcome to the creative collaboration of NYT bestselling novelist Evelyn Skye & creativity coach and writer Joanna Phoenix, who share heartfelt insights on storytelling, ambition, and growth. JOIN US—for kindness, curiosity, and community.

Everyday Knitter

By Louise Tilbrook

A cosy, creative community for yarn lovers, celebrating all things warm & handmade. A space to chat about what makes you happy, brings you comfort & what’s on your needles. Join us for weekly chats & inspiration. Grab a coffee, cosy up & tap to subscribe!

The Hand That Lets Go

By the hand that lets go

🌿 Some things are not ours to keep. We cling to routines, things, even people, as if letting go would erase us. But sometimes release is the way forward.

Restless Mumma by Anna McNuff

🗺️ What's it like to sell up, skip formal schooling and slow travel the world? That's us. Honest weekly posts on family adventures & daily chaos.

Newsletter Circle

By Ciler

Your go-to source for building a successful newsletter business. In-depth interviews with newsletter operators and insightful reports on newsletter strategies.

Rebecca Campbell

Writing on living from the soul in times of change. Meaning crisis. Midlife initiation. Being a Mystic. Grief. Late diagnosed neurodivergence. Awakening process. Sacred Feminine. The Great Mystery.

g l i m m e r s

By Kerri ní Dochartaigh

A meditation on why we need creativity, inspiration, & beauty; now more than ever. Trying to honour those bright, fleeting moments that weave themselves into our days. Feeling my way towards tenderness through beauty. On one-another-ness; tenderness &

While I Was Drawing

By Emily

A place where imagination wanders and where we follow the pencil line wherever it leads, in celebration of creativity, in reverence for nature, and in search of wonder.

All The Wild Magic

By Sophie Underwood

Correspondences from a little house by the woods in England's north exploring magic, myth, nature-connection, ecology, folklore, otherworldly portals, and life on the wild edges.

A magical journey through the woodland to find parts of yourself you never knew existed. So much good stuff coming...

- Claire Venus ✨

This Woman's Work

By Rebecca Mack ☕

Women centred writing combining sharp social commentary, thoughtful personal essays and thought provoking articles and deep dives. Powerful words laced with liberal splashes of hope, humour and heart.

The Bright Magazine

By The Bright Agency

Leading Literary, Illustration and Talent Agency founded in 2003. Home to the next generation of world-class artists, authors, and illustrators.

The Feeling Of Life

By Eva Lydon

Reflections and insights from a midlife mum, embracing ALL the feelings of life! Discoveries, inspiration and resources delivered with empathy, compassion and a delightful dollop of humour!

Mya's Substack

By Mya Nichol

My personal Substack

How It Works (and Why It Doesn’t)

By Rocco Pendola

Essays about cities, systems, and everyday life as they actually work

The Writing Laboratory

By London Lit Lab

Where writers teach writers: the friendliest creative writing space around. Come and join Dr Lily Dunn and Zoe Gilbert in this creative experimental space: observations, hypotheses, experiments, chemical reactions. A safe space space to experiment.

The Clearing by Katherine May

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

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

This is heart work

Cultured. North East

By Sam Wonfor

Championing, celebrating and surveying the rich landscape of arts and culture which makes the North East of England a better place to be

Brilliant insight from Sam and Dave on all the cultural sparks and North East arts news you need to know!

- Claire Venus ✨

Another Door Opens

By eleanor

The search to find opportunity amongst the messiness of change

Kitchen Projects

By Nicola Lamb

Taking the Recipe Development process from behind the scenes directly to you. Part toolkit, part love letter to food, this is a deep dive into dessert and pastries.

Chez Hanny

By Hannah Ashe

Finding creative rhythm and throwing out the career rule book. Writing and podcasting on creative career change, interior design and living a multi-hyphenate life.

Interiors, words spun around real life and lots of fun too over at Chez Hanny!

- Claire Venus ✨

💛 The Shelf Help Book Club

By Toni Jones

The world's first dedicated self-help book club. Supporting you to read more and feel better.

Leave the Fingerprints

By Gracie Klumpp

An Autistic author/illustrator and graphic novelist telling dark yet hopeful stories. After a lifetime of masking and perfectionism, I'm learning to take up space, dig deep without second-guessing myself, and make marks unapologetically.

The Simple Letter

By Jessica Rose Williams

A community of like-minded hearts, devoted to living our version of a beautiful life from the inside out. Here, you'll find musings on choosing simple, slow, soft living and embracing the path that’s truly ours.

Delightful postcards from a life in Paris. Soulful shares, sophisticated writing and oodles of connection from a beautiful heart in Jessica. ✨

- Claire Venus ✨

Honeycomb

By Peta Kelly

For the one who went quiet and called it integrity — we are so back. Here, we get free of performative faith, creative paralysis, wellness theatre, and relentless self-auditing. Behind the scenes of an 8 figure mum of 3 and firey big sis pep talks.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Stay ahead of the curve—with the leading Substack Growth Strategist, Sarah Fay.

Sarah's Substack workshops are BRILLIANT - her Substack knowledge is deep, considered and so generous. Join her community - don't pause, just get in there, I'll meet you there!!

- Claire Venus ✨

Studio Diaries

By Shinjini

✨ Keep your creative fire burning! ✨ Weekly notes from my art studio, including a new sketchbook prompt every month, short process videos, pages from my art journal & notes on the creative process.

Quiet Growth Chronicles

By hannah bay

Exploring the art of an ordinary, well-lived creative life 𖥔 Weekly essays on building a quiet business with steadiness, simplicity, and care.

How to Write for a Living

By David McIlroy

Writers should get paid for doing what they love. Subscribe now to get my FREE 7-day email course, Substack Launchpad.

Measured advice with lots of interesting content from David. ✨

- Claire Venus ✨

The Artemisian

By Alyssa Polizzi

For those drawn to inner work and the mysteries of the psyche, The Artemisian offers workshops, educational resources, and community weaving archetypal studies and Jungian psychology.

Joyful + Nourishment

By Linn Thorstensson

A place for conversations & community around how we can build a joyful + nourishing relationship with food, eating and our bodies, learning to live free from Diet Culture with a compassionate heart. I'm glad you are here.

Friends with Business Benefits

By Charlie & Franky

A podcast and community for creatives who crave connection, understanding and support.

as slow as possible

By Tuğba Avci

slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be - all things creativity, well-being and a life that’s yours

A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Dailyness

By Madeleine Dore

Observations on the varying rhythms of our days—and how we can be more present to the many lives within them ✨

The Quiet ADHD Club

By Gabrielle Treanor

A membership for quiet, introverted, sensitive women with ADHD (or who think they have ADHD) to help them understand their brains, and build inner calm and confidence to be their true selves.

The Moon Shed

By The moon shed

For grown women who think deeply. Tarot as a mirror for the lives we're actually living. Magic included

Brighter Days, Darker Nights

By Nikko

Navigating the ups and downs of motherhood. A community for those interested in sunlight, hormones, polyphasic sleep, nutrition, anemia & mental health created by the Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Quantum Biology.

Home

By India

I'm a UK-based author and journalist. This is my journal x my Notes app - mostly books, food, interiors, clothes, shopping, home life, plus observations and enthusiasms.

How to Build a Life

By Laura Jane Williams

You don’t change your life by becoming someone else - you change it by telling the truth about who you already are. How to Build a Life is where I do that, because telling the truth? It’s a forever thing. Come join me!

Before and After the Book Deal

By Courtney Maum

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

Amie’s Substack

By Amie McNee

My personal Substack

I am so glad Aime's bold words about artistry are now on Substack. It's a joy to share this space.

- Claire Venus ✨

Sub Club

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

ReWild With Gill Moakes

For the women committed to reclaiming the life their soul won't shut up about.

Happy Endings

By Keris Fox

Writing, reading, music, cooking, procrastinating, flailing. And cat pics.

The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

A global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes

Wildly Unraveled

By Laurita Gorman

Exploring, with honesty & curiosity, what it means to be human. Conversations, stories, and insights about tending to our nervous systems, relationships, and mental health. And a return to radical wholeness & aliveness through inner & outer landscapes.

Laurita's words are her soul's song and I'd so delighted to have found her in this space.

- Claire Venus ✨

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.