Substacks recommended by Lauren Rhoades

Recommended by Lauren Rhoades

Culture Powered is the RED SQUARED company newsletter, offering insights into storytelling, culture-driven work, and exclusive content from our podcast and behind the scenes series.

Story Made Project

Exploring how stories make a difference in our lives.

Angels over Presley Boulevard

By Victoria Richard

Notes from three years in a performing arts school turned cult.

The Butcher's Darling.

By Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Awful but cheerful.

I enjoy the thoughtful, meandering, incisive observations from a Southern scholar on the move.

- Lauren Rhoades

The Last Leg

By Jimmy

Stuff

Fascinating and funny ruminations on music, art, and literature from Mississippi author Jimmy Cajoleas.

- Lauren Rhoades

Church Goin Mule

By Mule

A monthly newsletter from the Mississippi Delta studio of outsider artist Church Goin Mule.

You don't want to miss the wise and rambling writings of supremely talented, Delta-based artist Church Goin Mule.

- Lauren Rhoades

Belle Point Press on Substack

By Casie Dodd

A literary small press on the OK-AR border: Stick around and read

I've gleaned so many helpful writing and publishing tips from this newsletter. Belle Point Press has introduced me to some of the most innovative writers in the Mid/South region.

- Lauren Rhoades

River Time: Lower Mississippi River Dispatch

By John Ruskey

Welcome aboard "River Time" -- where the big, muddy, Mississippi River leads us back home, to our dear Mother Earth, through the magic balance of the canoe, in harmony with the birds, the fishes, the beavers -- and all of creation!

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

An authentic, democratic, and unsparing look at what it means to age. Sari Botton features writers of all ages and stages of life. Her "Oldster Questionnaire" is the inspiration for the Rooted Questionnaire.

- Lauren Rhoades

Chop Wood, Carry Water

By Jess Craven

This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants.

Effective, daily political actions to take from a veteran organizer. These small actions have great collective impact at a time when we REALLY need it!

- Lauren Rhoades

The Chitlin' Circuit

By Preston Lauterbach

The underappreciated, overlooked, unknown creators of rock 'n' roll.

GORJUS

By David

Polaroids, cassettes, and exploring the South

Follow GORJUS for beautiful and haunting polaroid images of the Deep South and meditations on what it means to live here.

- Lauren Rhoades

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.