Substacks recommended by Claire Venus ✨

Recommended by Claire Venus ✨

Stream of consciousness on, well, everything. Book writing, spirituality, motherhood, influencing, peptides & wellness overall, being a (psychic) human. Can't wait to share it all xx

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

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

Give A Sh*t

By Lara

A platform & monthly newsletter for community obsessed people who give a shit about the world 🌐 Join the #GAStalks community to connect with others & learn how to build profitable purpose led businesses with thriving communities

WildBeauty

By Joyce Wycoff

WildBeauty ... Our Earth home nourishes us with food, water, air, beauty and wonder. Earth is the foundation for everything we love and she needs our help. One thing we can all do is talk to each other about how to protect her wonders.

Amie McNee

Words for Creatives

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

- Claire Venus ✨

Anatomy of a Decision by Louise Morris

Stories from scalpel to Substack - this is open-heart writing from a former neonatal and trauma surgeon.

Yoga For Tired People

By Jo

Get one fun, easy to follow session every Monday to do as you are, no need to change your clothes or get out your mat, simply weave stretching and relaxing into your day and feel amazing. So come get your spark back, you fabulous but exhausted human.

Simple yet soulful yoga for anyone who needs to cut through the noise and be held.

- Claire Venus ✨

InkCouragement: Creative Confidence with Dr Rachel Knightley

By Dr Rachel Knightley on Substack

Making space for what you want to create – on the page or in the world.

Earth and Verse

By Alix Klingenberg

Get out of your head and onto the page! Writing circles and creative prompts for poets, artists, and writers who are ready to take their practice to the next level.

System Changers

By Genevieve Nathwani

Exploring how the path to creating great change starts within.

The Culture of Bookbinding

By Yvette Ja

Travel around the world with me to learn how different cultures have made books. We will explore book structures and their various uses, as well as how artists have adopted these to make their own work.

Your Integrative Physician | Tanmeet Sethi, MD

By Tanmeet Sethi

Translating Real Science into Real Medicine for Your Real Life so you can finally feel better. No 17-step morning routines or toxic positivity. I’ve got you. Menopause certified/Big 5 Author/NYT featured/TEDx Speaker.

Creatively Wondering

By Georgina

A co-wondering space for the creatively curious. We blend visual thinking, gentle AI, & biological pacing to help you soften the noise, so you can create intentionally. Step inside our Wonder Atelier, where you're so welcome to wander with us! ✨💭

Away From Home by Emma O'Rourke

Artist newsletter. Confessional style writing from a lapsed Catholic. The light and the shade. Subscribe to connect and receive insights into my studio practice by the sea.

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, and after moving clear across the country. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel.

Zoe Lea

Trad-published thriller author going indie, sharing the honest, messy process of writing, self-publishing, and finding readers. For writers who love the craft but hate the hustle.

musings by mika

By Mika

Honest musings on the twists and turns of leaning into creativity and see behind the scenes of my Substack journey. *NEW* Side Quest Queens: A supportive, fun, like-minded community for distractible queens.👑

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.

What To Read If

By Elizabeth

Where book lovers find their next great read.

Turn the Page Retreat

By Claire Venus ✨

Join us 18 - 20th September 2026 for our pop up Substack based retreat to help you relax, read, craft and unwind from life online so you can feel more in harmony with both on and offline choices.✨

Annie Ridout

Essays and poetry about living and working creatively, in London, with three school-aged children, a patch of wild meadow grown from seed and a pond with three fish. I'm hoping for a cat, too. I write and draw from a studio at the end of my garden.

Poetry Pals

By Nelly Bryce

Your mate who can't stop sending you poems. And poetry book recommends - mainly written by women. Also writing and leaving poems where they are needed.

COSMICOLOGY: Soul Science for rule breakers

By Lauren

Understand your patterns, step out of the 9-5 and work with your natural energy. Working with cosmic cycles, Human Design and Numerology.

Heart felt and honest writing and podcasts from a beautiful soul.

- Claire Venus ✨

What's Working Right Now

By Rebecca Spitzer

Mom of two + product leader, building in the margins. I make tools for women building something of their own, and help them see the opportunities hiding in what’s already working.

Bold Types

By Nika

Curiosity-led travel stories—for wander women starting over and building a life on their own terms. Check in 💫

Creative Fix

By Allegra Chapman (she/her)

Creative recovery for overwhelmed humans. ❤️‍🩹 A monthly magazine, and gentle momentum-building community, for writers, artists and makers who want to stop letting life push their creative dreams to the bottom of the list.

CollabStack

By Marcy

Growing community through collaboration on Substack! Connect with potential collaborators through the CollabStack Directory and monthly Call for Collaboration.

The Quiet ADHD Club

By Gabrielle Treanor

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

'Midlifin' it,' with Anniki Sommerville

This is where I write features and stories about midlife. I'm a journalist, writer and columnist for Good Housekeeping. I strongly believe that it's through story telling and sharing personal experiences that we find connection and feel less alone.

The Creative Flock

By Emma Carpendale

A seasonal, slow, and nature-loving space to sketch, share, and grow together 🌿 FREE content in welcome email when you subscribe.

ArtGym

By Katie Stack and Adam Ming

Build your skills as an illustrator through live practice sessions and a vibrant art community. Join professional instructors for structured, fun classes designed to develop your creative work and portfolio. Perfect for beginners to career artists.

Reboot

A publication by and for technologists.

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.

The Publishing Spectrum

By Amanda N. Bray

Editorial and audience deep dives for independent publishers on Substack. Instruments for understanding your publication, your audience and where your creative work is going next.

Writers' Hour Magazine

By London Writers' Salon

A global writing contest and magazine from the team behind London Writers’ Salon. New contests each month, new prompts each Sunday. Subscribe to write with us!

Dr. Mary Claire

Dr. Mary Claire Haver | OB/GYN & menopause specialist | Author of The New Menopause & The New Perimenopause | Founder of The Pause Life. Science-backed tools for thriving through midlife and beyond.

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.

Luke Bateman

Reading. Writing. Magic. Life. And everything in between.

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 ✨

Letters From Therapy

By Kate

Come home to yourself and feel less alone with self-guided therapy tools and journalling.

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

A Deeper Love with Tara Franca

For the ambitious mothers building bold lives with soft hearts.

Gather & Grow

By Sarah Raad

Structured clarity for creative women who want less overthinking and more grounded action. I help thoughtful women think clearly, work with fear, and move their ideas forward through guided journaling, practical tools, and monthly live sessions.

My Studio - behind the scenes...

By Catherine Rayner Studio

Welcome to my studio...this is my 'blog' for those of you who would like to know more about my life as a children's illustrator & author, learn new things and peek inside corners of my studio nobody (apart from me!) has ever visited before...

Catherine is a super star illustrator with a poignant grasp on the personality and emotion behind the eyes of our favourite pets. Her Substack is such a warm and welcoming place to hang out. I love all the sneak peeks and the behind the scenes info too.

- Claire Venus ✨

Slower Space

By Jodie Rogers

Creating space for a slower, more connected life. Includes weekly letters, monthly reflection & intention setting call, workshops & more!

✍️ Make Writing Your Job

By Team

Land high-paying remote writing jobs, pitch calls, grants, residencies, and contests -- delivered straight to your inbox. Plus access our exclusive class library. ✨ New jobs posted 5x/week. Writers are getting hired every day — don’t miss out.

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 Mother Makers

By Kat River

The Mother Makers is a thriving symposium for the Mothers, The Makers and the Mystics. Designed to be an honest exploration of the deep dance between Motherhood, Creativity, energetic business and self inquiry into optimism.

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

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

Create Me Free

By Kathryn Vercillo

Exploring how health and circumstance impact creativity and all of the resilience and adaptations people can and do make in order to keep on creating in the best way possible!