Substacks recommended by Kelton Wright

Recommended by Kelton Wright

Kate McDermott's Newsletter

James Beard Finalist writing about Baking, Cooking, Walks, Gardens, Dogs & Pie.

Attention Economy

By Leigh Stein

honest advice about making a career as an author today

Shellphone Chronicles

By Linda

People come to Shellphone Chronicles for vicarious adventure, and enjoy tall tales from the high seas, beautiful photos, original artwork, and occasional poetry. 🩵 Two people with a love of adventure, one big sailing yacht.

Brent and Michael Are Going Places

By Michael Jensen

The adventures, insights, and travel tips of a gay nomad couple exploring the world. A "Substack Featured" Newsletter. Also featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, and CNN.

The Lighthouse with Cait Flanders

Home of the mini memoir. Written by an author from the west coast of Canada, now landlocked in the middle of the UK.

Love Story

By Laura McKowen

Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

Happy on Purpose

By Amelia Wilson

Happiness, habits, and how to thrive in midlife!

morning person

By Leslie Stephens

Obsessively-curated recommendations and reflections, best served with coffee.

Life in the Real World

By Karen Davis

An Oasis of Peace and Beauty

Unsupervised

By Sky Fusco

Wild at heart, weird on top, and publicly learning to love myself. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, communal living, addiction, making art, & navigating the digital Anthropocene. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Quandary Magazine

By Cole Noble

Preserving the spirit of outdoor adventure, in an independently published magazine — available soon in print

For my adrenaline junkies and more-than-outdoorsy readers.

- Kelton Wright

A Year in Drawings

By Chris Schwaar

Daily drawings from life and weekly reflections throughout 2025.

The New Sensitive

By Catherine Andrews

Where highly sensitive women learn to embrace their sensitivity as a strength and flourish through practical wellness, nutrition, and spiritual tools.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

By Stuart Winchester

Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains.

If you ski, this is what to read.

- Kelton Wright

MissHezah Letter

By Heather Sundell

Small bites of big thoughts related to my experiences with parenting, career, identity, grad school, and workplace culture.

I’ve followed Heather’s writing for years since we were both little Tumblr-ites. Her perspective always make me think and her writing always makes me laugh.

- Kelton Wright

Cold Antler Farm

By Jenna Woginrich

Jenna Woginrich's dispatches from 6.5 acres of trouble. Writing on homesteading, rural queer life, pop culture, fly fishing & falconry.

Do you really want to live off the grid on a farm? This newsletter will help you find out.

- Kelton Wright

The Writing Long Game

By Tom Kuegler

Learn how to grow your Substack holistically, without burnout! Master Notes, improve your storytelling, and enjoy the act of writing. No hustle. No posting on 48 platforms. Just great writing that grows your audience.

My Sweet Dumb Brain

By Katie Hawkins-Gaar

A newsletter about facing life's ups and downs, all while being kind to yourself.

So Relatable

By Chrissy Hennessey

Inspiration, motivation, and conversation to help creative folks achieve their goals. Plus snacks!

AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

Writing through the wreckage and the reckoning—the time I grew up in a meth lab and other uncomfortable truths. And teaching the somatic writing practices that make it possible to stay with the hard story.

Rural Magic by Sara Ramsey

An Iowan and a coastal elitist walk into a bar...and, spoiler, they're both me. I write about community, connection, and magical moments in rural Iowa, which I'm rediscovering after two decades in San Francisco.

Third Eye Oracle

exploring oneness together

Maybe Baby

By Haley Nahman

Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.

For sharp and precise takes on culture that'll keep you thinking long after reading.

- Kelton Wright

Mountain Running & Living

By Sarah Lavender Smith

Personal essays with practical advice about trail running, mountain life & midlife grit.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Olivia’s Substack

By Olivia Muenter

A newsletter about feelings, life, and making room for more.

For the feel the feels writer vibes, life inspiration, and the delicious Desk Tour series.

- Kelton Wright

Can't Hardly Wait

By Laura

Ramblings about adventure, health, and building a life that feels like your own.

Practice Not Perfect

By Kelly Barrett

Reflections, practices, poems, and playlists to inspire clarity, courage and a deeper connection with the natural world.

Great Fanfare

By Rachel Hochhauser

Lovingly overthought miscellany

Easy By Nature

By Bill Davison

Exploration and insights into re-wilding your yard, neighborhood, and spirit.

If you enjoy the slow mountain living of Shangrilogs, I have no doubt you will also enjoy Bill's wonderful takes on nature. It's a pretty easy choice.

- Kelton Wright

Recovering

By Holly Whitaker

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

The Wilds of Cancer

By Rick Lamplugh

A Life-Affirming Journey

A riveting journey to follow and a reminder of how to live.

- Kelton Wright

The Culture Study Podcast

By Anne Helen Petersen

A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts

It'll Be Fun, They Said

By Jess Pan

Writer in London working at a tiny indie London bookshop + latest news from my book - Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

Letters from Jackie

By Jennifer Azlant

Windows through a creative hamlet and residency in the California high desert.

Hilah's Things

By Hilah Stahl

I'm Hilah, the CEO and founder of Spoak. This is a weekly newsletter full of my favorite things, my musings on life and work and design, and anything else that’s tickling my fancy. I hope it brings a bit of sunshine to your inbox.

For those obsessed with interior design, Hilah's work will resonate.

- Kelton Wright

Good Book/Good Bread

By Hannah Griffin

Every two weeks, I recommend and review a book I loved, and bake a delicious bread that fits with an aspect of the story. Fiction & non-fiction.

What is better than getting an appropriately matching recipe to a good book? Very little.

- Kelton Wright