Substacks recommended by Lauren Rhoades

Recommended by Lauren Rhoades

The Butcher's Darling.

Awful but cheerful.

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

- Lauren Rhoades

Stories I'm Old Enough to Tell

By Gerry Wilson

a newsletter about stories, true and otherwise

Thoughtful musings on life and writing from Mississippi writer Gerry Wilson.

- Lauren Rhoades

Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans

By Lee Durkee

This site explores curious portraits of Elizabethan and Jacobean courtiers and is particularly concerned with the 400-year-old search for Shakespeare ad vivum, a portrait of the poet painted from life.

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

The Grudge Report

By Bess Kalb

Scribbling into the void!

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

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

C'mon Over

By M.C. Smith

A newsletter about homemaking.

M.C.'s meandering meditations on domesticity, the writing life, friendship, and more will make you want to create. Period. I immediately read every new thing she writes!

- Lauren Rhoades

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

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

Notes from a Small Press

By Anne Trubek

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.